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*Note: Listening to Our Lives is currently on hiatus. Please contact Rev. Chuck if interested in becoming part of a Scripture study and reflection like this one: 734-646-3550. Thank You!*
Each Saturday, 10-11:30 am : "Listening to Our Lives!"
Scripture Reading & Reflection ... & Refreshment(s)!
Where: Church House living room (7611 Clarendon Road -- parking readily available in front of the house & in church parking lot behind the house)
- The Encounter. Meet-&-Greet. Meditative reading of that Sunday's gospel passage used in Worship, utilizing the deeply authentic and ancient practice of lectio divina.
- Text in Context. Briefing by the pastor -- and others, perhaps! -- of the text's original purpose.
- Word in Our World. Extensive personal sharing. Guiding questions: How do you experience the Spirit speaking in the world, through this passage? How do you experience the Spirit speaking in your life, through this passage?
Let us follow where Jesus & the Spirit may be leading us, together!
For more information: Feel free to contact the pastor, Chuck: revbooker@gmail.com, 734-646-3550 (cell)
or, Linda Steadman: 913-449-1893 (cell)
Last updated by Bethesda Presbyterian Dec 29, 2011.
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This Sunday at BPC (2/12)
... at our 11 am Worship, we conclude a three-Sunday focus, "Our Healing Church", with the healing of two lepers: Naaman the Aramean warrior in 2 Kings 5 and an unnamed gentleman in Mark 1. The two-way flow of God's compassion signified by the phrase "healing church" -- the church spreads healing *and* is itself healed -- will be featured in the message, "The River of Healing: From 'Them' to Us". Click here for our colorful bulletin.
Art work on our Sanctuary Big Screen again will "signpost" the sermon -- as well as the Prelude at 10:50, an abbreviated version of an African-American History Month celebration featuring music by Sweet Honey in the Rock and Mahalia Jackson. This special month will also be celebrated in our hymns and other music this Sunday.
Oh, and don't forget our new-and-improved Valentine's Day quiz following Worship, in the Fellowship Hall! Hope to see you Sunday.
Posted by Bethesda Presbyterian on February 10, 2012 at 7:30pm
This Sunday at BPC (2/5) ...
A Lieutenant's Healing Journey! In keeping with Our Healing Church three-part series and the second of three successive healing stories from Mark 1, Marine Lt. James Byerly, who lost both his legs in an IED explosion during combat operations in Afghanistan, will join us in sharing a bit about his healing journey -- with a challenge to our church to be wounded healers, as well. Several of us have met James in his visits to our congregation, as he nears the end of a year-long recuperation at Walter Reed.
Visuals Galore this Sunday! In honor of African-American Month, I invite all to come to the Sanctuary a little early -- 10:45a -- to enjoy a Big Screen slide/song extravaganza celebrating our civil rights pioneers! Featured: Mahalia Jackson ("Precious Lord"), Sweet Honey in the Rock ("Where Are the Keys to the Kingdom?"), speech excerpts from Martin Luther King, Jr. Also, for the very first time, the sermon -- "Action Into Faith" -- will be highlighted by Big Screen visuals.
Sunday's Bulletin is attached. The first sermon of our three-part Our Healing Church series, "Jesus the Healer: A Threat to Order?", can be found here -- along with so much else through our website.
Our Healing Church: a deliberate double entendre. May our discipleship always prove such a two-way street. Come along for the journey!
Posted by Bethesda Presbyterian on February 3, 2012 at 1:00pm
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