In This Episode: The Disciplines are a means to an end. The desired end of the Disciplines is freedom. There is freedom in submission. The desire to always get our own way is bondage. We’re all tempted to do it our own way. We must daily look at the example of Christ who not only submitted to dying on a cross, but he also submitted to a cross-life. When we step outside the boundaries set by God, the is no rest and there is no peace. Whatever God wants to do for you, He begins by doing it in you.
In The Episode: God brings us to places of impossibility to show us that it is possible through Him. The Holy Spirit leads us to places where we believe that dry bones are still resurrected today. We believe that the most significant thing that can happen is that we are no longer dismember but remembered. “I don’t want to be where God was, I want to be where God is.” Martin Luther regarding John 3:16: The Gospel in Miniature.
Prelude: Adagio by A. Corelli (Ruslan Apostolov, Violin | Ina Apostolova, Cello | Wayne Martz, Harpsichord) Welcome / Announcements / Lord’s Prayer (Laura Marvets) Hymn: “Ask Ye What Great Thing I Know” (Hymn 163) Apostles’ Creed (Matthew and Tammy Reynolds) Special Music: Sinking Deep (Anna Fugh and Sam Stephens) Reading of Scripture (Logan Ogletree) Children Sermon (Sally Key Bowden) Anthem: “I Know That My Redeemer Lives” (Jennifer Akin, Solo) Sermon: “A Story Within A Story” (Rev. John Fugh, Jr.) Hymn: “Amazing Grace” (Hymn 378) Benediction (Rev. John Fugh, Jr.) Postlude: “Vivace & Allegro” by A. Corelli (Ruslan Apostolov, Violin | Ina Apostalova, Cello | Wayne Martz, Organ)
In This Episode: The disease of “Constant Partial Attention” (https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/opinion/01friedman.html). Accept the fact that God is in control. Until we accept this fact, we wind up exhausted. We live as though the opposite of Matthew 6:33 is true. We incorrectly believe that we must seek everything else thinking the Kingdom of God will be added afterwards. Solitude is not a place. It is something in our hearts. “Talking” is too often used to control others, ourselves, or things. If we’re silent, where’s the control?
Listen to our interview with Carlos Whittaker: http://spumccolumbus.com/podcast/episode-10-carlos-whittaker-shares-about-the-holy-spirit/
Prelude: “Voluntary” by J. Stanley Welcome / Announcements / Prayer with Lord’s Prayer (Mary Lou Jarrell) Hymn: “For All the Saints” (Hymn 711) Apostles’ Creed (Alice Varner) All Saints Remembrance Special Music: “What a Beautiful Name” (Joy Sloan, Sarah Teel, Jay Davis, Eric Buchanan, Connor Davis, Eric Jones, and Ken Posey) Reading of Scripture (Lucy and Rand Jones) Children Sermon (Sally Key Bowden) Anthem: “The Eternal Gates” (Wayne and Jeanne Martz | by H. Helvey) Sermon: “A Ray of Hope” (Rev. Dr. P. Shane Green) Hymn: “Faith of Our Fathers” (Hymn 710) Communion & Benediction (Rev. Dr. P. Shane Green) Postlude: “Glorificamus” (Wayne Martz, Organ | J Dunstable)
