4Ü #296
Who holds the power?
4 October 2007
- WASSUP - Footprints on your heart
- INSIGHT OUT - Who holds the power?
- OUTSIGHT IN - Substance
- SEE YA SUNDAY - More than appearances
- LAST WORD - The measure
WASSUP - Footprints on your heart
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.
Unknown
Who are the people that have left footprints on your heart?
Take some time right now to write them an email of give them a phone call.
"Thanks for the difference you've made in my life!"
Andrew
INSIGHT OUT - Who holds the power?
Who holds the power?
Is it the one with the gun in hand or the one who kneels in silent prayer?
Is it the one who buys favour or who gives without counting cost?
Violence and peace clash in the streets
Silenced for a season
Waiting to sing of freedom's song ...
He has performed mighty deeds with his arm; he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts. He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble.
He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty.Luke 1:51-53
OUTSIGHT IN - Substance
I found myself looking at the word "substance"
substance
c.1300, "essential nature," from O.Fr. substance (12c.), from L. substantia "being, essence, material," from substans, prp. of substare "stand firm, be under or present," from sub "up to, under" + stare "to stand," from PIE base *sta- "to stand". A loan-translation of Gk. hypostasis. Sense of "the matter of a study, discourse, etc." first recorded 1390. Meaning "any kind of corporeal matter" also is first attested 1390.
Now say the word slowly "sub - stance"
"To stand upon"
How you stand depends entirely what you stand on - that is your substance!
What do you stand on?
What do you stand for?
What do you stand with?
Or ...
to use the word in it's later meaning (essence, being, matter)
What are you made of?
SEE YA SUNDAY - More than appearances
This Sunday 8.30 & 10.30
This week we continue in our series on the Book of James 2:1-13 "An Integrated life"
What you see is not always what you get! This Sunday with the help of James, we'll peel back the layers and examine a faith that is more than appearances.
Sunday evening service this week with Matt Chapman and the Crew
Meet at 6.30pm in the foyer.
Can't wait ... see ya Sunday
THIS WEEK AT ST COLUMBA ... Girls Night Out
Thursday, 11th October 2007 @ 7.30pm
Girls Night Out is an evening that understands women. An evening of sharing, connection and laughter. A night of fun and entertainment. A night of inspiration. Girls Night Out is for all women, young and old. An evening where pearls of wisdom will be shared and brought to life.
https://worldvision.org.nz/girlsnightout/
Thanks for this time to chat.
Andrew
St Columba
Where Life and Faith Meet
andrew.norton@stcolumba.org.nz
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LAST WORD - The measure
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King