As has become our "tradition" we will "remember" as we gather together on Sunday. Then, on Monday morning - 11:00 at the Pine Grove Cemetery in Russell there is a very meaningful service celebrating those who gave their lives to make our nation great.
Please read Hebrews 11 in preparation for Sunday's message. We will also be hearing from Barbie Yoder who runs an amazing camp for underprivileged kids in the Erie area.
This is the Sunday we will be praying for Arielle Clark as she leaves to spend the next two months on her ministry trip to the kids in Zambia (Africa)
Reminder - Next Sunday, the 31st, Brother Fount Shults will be with us ministering the Word. He has been the most influential Bible teacher in my life and I really encourage you to come out and hear him and bring all your friends
Since you have provided the context a second time in a week, I would like to point out how interesting it is that Protestants make a big deal of remembering the dead, commemorating their achievements and essentially keeping them a part of the community. We are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses and that surrounding implies communication. Why then is there such a problem with asking saints to intercede for us or, and this one is really off the map for most, praying for God to have mercy on those departed? This is a pretty big question to ask in light of Hebrews 11 and the Resurrection and Last Judgment. Thank God for the men who gave their lives, but also thank them for they are alive in Christ and can surely hear us (cf. Lazarus and the Rich Man).
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Ben, you always make me think. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome. I'll keep it up. I don't get to talk to anyone about these things except on here until our reading group starts this summer so I have taken up stalking blogs.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could be there to hear Fount. I think we only had himn for OT, but it was great. I will always remember singing, "It is of the Lord's mercies, we are not consumed..." to begin each class. When can we come visit?
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