News and Announcements:
Sun Feb 5 Early Service – 7:45am
Celebration Service – 9:00am
Traditional Service – 11:00am
Mon Feb 6 Bible Study- 7:00pm
Tues Feb 7 One Room @ a Time Meeting 7:00pm
Daughters of the King – 7:30pm
Wed Feb 8 Bible Study 4:00pm
Mid Week Eucharist 5:00-6:00pm
Celebration Band 6:30-7:15pm
Thur Feb 9 Choir practice 7:00pm
Sun Feb 12 Early Service – 7:45am
Celebration Service – 9:00am
Traditional Service – 11:00am
*Chili Lunch – 1:00pm*
J2A's Homemade Chili Lunch
Sunday, February 12, at 1:00p.m
Choose from a variety of homemade chili
(We will also provide drinks, fresh hot bread sticks, and deserts)
$5.00 Donations
(Christ Episcopal Church)
Mardi Gras!
Celebrate the last Evening of Epiphany
Join the Christ Church family
for a festival of mardi (fat) proportions!
- Sunday February
- 6:30 to 8:30
- Please bring pot luck or finger food to share and a little cash for donations for drinks.
- Wine, soda and a king cake will be provided.
- Entertaining music from ‘Broadway’
- Performers needed for Broadway acts. Please contact Heidi ASAP
Finding Faith
In the Wilderness
Seekers Lenten Program
With Marcus Borg*
Christ Episcopal Church
Join us this Lent for simple meals, fellowship, and an exploration of our personal faith and how we live it together.
Monday nights
February 27 – March 26, 2012
6:30 pm simple soup and salad supper
7 pm program
8;30 heading home
* Marcus Borg is a Christian and theologian who straddles the Lutheran and Episcopal/Anglican traditions. His best known book is Meeting Jesus again for the first time
Reading February 5 9.00am
Reader: A reading from 1 Corinthians [9:16-23]
Paul declares that he is willing to be all things to all people if it means he is most effectively sharing the essentials of the gospel.
Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
People: Open our ears to hear your Word.
Yet preaching the Good News is not something I can boast about. I am compelled by God to do it. How terrible for me if I didn’t preach the Good News!
If I were doing this on my own initiative, I would deserve payment. But I have no choice, for God has given me this sacred trust. What then is my pay? It is the opportunity to preach the Good News without charging anyone. That’s why I never demand my rights when I preach the Good News.
Even though I am a free man with no master, I have become a slave to all people to bring many to Christ. When I was with the Jews, I lived like a Jew to bring the Jews to Christ. When I was with those who follow the Jewish law, I too lived under that law. Even though I am not subject to the law, I did this so I could bring to Christ those who are under the law. When I am with the Gentiles who do not follow the Jewish law, I too live apart from that law so I can bring them to Christ. But I do not ignore the law of God; I obey the law of Christ.
When I am with those who are weak, I share their weakness, for I want to bring the weak to Christ. Yes, I try to find common ground with everyone, doing everything I can to save some. I do everything to spread the Good News and share in its blessings.
Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
People: Open our ears to hear your Word.
Readings February 5 7.45 & 11am
+The First Lesson: The prophet sings the praises of our wondrous and glorious God. Enthroned on high, the Lord possesses all power and all majesty.
A Reading from Isaiah [40:21-31]
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them like a tent to live in;
who brings princes to naught,
and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.
Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows upon them, and they wither,
and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
To whom then will you compare me,
or who is my equal? says the Holy One.
Lift up your eyes on high and see:
Who created these?
He who brings out their host and numbers them,
calling them all by name;
because he is great in strength,
mighty in power,
not one is missing.
Why do you say, O Jacob,
and speak, O Israel,
"My way is hidden from the LORD,
and my right is disregarded by my God"?
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint,
and strengthens the powerless.
Even youths will faint and be weary,
and the young will fall exhausted;
but those who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength,
they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,
they shall walk and not faint.
Reader: The Word of the Lord People: Thanks be to God
Psalm 147:1-2,21 Page 804, BCP
Hallelujah!
How good it is to sing praises to our God! *
how pleasant it is to honor him with praise!
How good it is to sing praises to our God! *
how pleasant it is to honor him with praise!
The LORD rebuilds Jerusalem; *
he gathers the exiles of Israel.
he gathers the exiles of Israel.
He heals the brokenhearted *
and binds up their wounds.
and binds up their wounds.
He counts the number of the stars *
and calls them all by their names.
and calls them all by their names.
Great is our LORD and mighty in power; *
there is no limit to his wisdom.
there is no limit to his wisdom.
The LORD lifts up the lowly, *
but casts the wicked to the ground.
but casts the wicked to the ground.
Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; *
make music to our God upon the harp.
make music to our God upon the harp.
He covers the heavens with clouds *
and prepares rain for the earth;
and prepares rain for the earth;
He makes grass to grow upon the mountains *
and green plants to serve mankind.
and green plants to serve mankind.
He provides food for flocks and herds *
and for the young ravens when they cry.
and for the young ravens when they cry.
He is not impressed by the might of a horse; *
he has no pleasure in the strength of a man;
he has no pleasure in the strength of a man;
But the LORD has pleasure in those who fear him, *
in those who await his gracious favor.
in those who await his gracious favor.
+The Second Lesson: Paul declares that he is willing to be all things to all people if it means he is most effectively sharing the essentials of the gospel.
If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel! For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission. What then is my reward? Just this: that in my proclamation I may make the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my rights in the gospel.
For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) so that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am not free from God's law but am under Christ's law) so that
I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, so that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.
Reader: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God
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