Presidnetial Politics

For an interesting read, see

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_on_el_pr/rel_dobson_obama

Join me here for a conversation.

Christian Character Peacemaker

Well, last week's sermon is now posted as an mp3 file at the church's website www.otisvillepres.org . You can go there to listen and to download this sermon, as well as four of the five podcasts in the sermon series on Christian Character.

We have been looking at the book of James and have dealt with several topics, including purity, prejudice, profanity and peacemaking.

This coming Sunday we will be dealing with praise.

Prais is the best part of being a person of faith.

Christian Character

For those who may not have been in worship the last two Sundays, w have started a new series on Christian Character.

We started with Purity as a part of Christian Character. Who and whose we are leads not only to a new kind of thinking, it also leads to a new kind of being. Purity in Action means we have to live out our faith.

last Sunday we went on to talk about Prejudice and Christian Character. It is pretty hard to justify hating, or discriminating, or marginalizing anyone with Jesus looking over your shoulder. He loves the whole world John 3:16 suggests and so then should we.

This week we go on in this series from the letter of James, to chapter 3 and the issue of profanity, especially gossip and talking people down, not just the swearing thing. When we fail to see people as Jesus sees them, we are all in danger of profaning the image of Christ! wow.

The last three sermons are now on the church website as podcasts. Go to http://www.otisvillepres.org/podcast.htm
right click on the podcast you want to listen to, and save the file as to your desktop. From there you can click on it to listen, or move it to any mp3 player.

As always, for questions, just send a note to info@otisvillepres.org !

It's Been Awhile

It has been several days since I wrote. The summer has taken it's toll in keeping me busy away from the computer. But the scripture lessons go on and this week is not different.

The lectionary lesson moves from Mark to John this week. And strangely enough from mark's version of Jesus and the feeding of the 5,000 and the boat trip accross Galilee to John's version. I have no idea why. i don't see significant differences. Why would the lectionary writers offer this up.

A mystery that hopefully will be resolved by Sunday!

Podcasts

I should have noted that the church web iste is www.otisvillepres.org and the specific address for the podcasts is http://www.otisvillepres.org/podcast.htm

If you have problems with the site, send me a note at jeff@otisvillpres.org