Good morning,
Praise the Lord for this Friday. It is a great blessing to live under the gracious care of Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is so sweet to trust Him. It is a such great blessing to worship Him and serve Him. Those who live in the area, please join us for our Friday night Television out reach this evenin at 7 PM. on Time Warner Cable channel 4. We will gather for Grace Cafe at Wesley United Methodist Church, 1000 Day Hollow Road, for our Monthly Gathering for food and Fellowship on Saturday at 5 PM. Then we will gather for Saturday Evening Worship at 6:30 PM at First United Methodist Church, Endicott. Rev. Earle Cowden will be preaching. Aric Phinney and the team will be ministering in music. We will gather for Sunday mornings Worship at 8:30 and 11:00 at Unoion Center UMC (Sunday School at 9:50 AM) and at 9:30 AM at the Wesley UMC. Pray with us for the Lord to pour upon us His fresh anointing. May the Lord bless us with His great power and grace wherever we gather in His presence in worship and fellowship.
One of the great dreamers of our time is John Nash, who spent some of his formative years in Blue Field, West Virginia, a beautiful area that we visited a few summers ago, when Laureen spent time in that area for her summer job with Youth Works. The movie A Beautiful Mind portrays the wonderful and compelling story of Nash, a 1994 Nobel Prize winner. His thinking and mathematical formulae have had tremendous impact on business and international relations in recent years.
The movie traces the life of John Nash through his early years at Princeton, starting in 1947. After a distinguished decade of productivity, Nash suffered a breakdown. He imagined he was involved in deciphering coded messages from foreign enemies. His life fell apart. The beautiful mind became the most tortured of minds, plagued by schizophrenia.
Nash's loving wife Alisha stood by, fiercely holding things together as John suffered through a mental hospital stay and his struggle to rid his mind of persons who torturd him emotionally. These people only existed within his mind…they were not real. In the end, the schizophrenia that haunted John Nash was not sent away, but dealt-with. He chose to ignore the voices of his tortured mind, and love his wife. At the awards ceremony Nash’s acceptance speech contained the following statement, "That search for reason and logic has taken me a lifetime, through the theoretical, the metaphysical and the delusional - and back. And it is only in the mystical realm of love I have found any reason and logic."
Love is the final, lasting, overcoming dream. God is love. 1 John 4.8.
"But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. Romans 5:8 (NLT)
Newspaper columnist George Crane told once of a woman who was full of hatred toward her husband. Someone counseled the woman to act as if she really loved her husband, to tell him how much he meant to her, to praise him for every decent trait, to be kind, considerate, and generous whenever possible. Then, when she had fully convinced him of her undying love, she would make her move and file for divorce. With revenge in her eyes she said, "That’s perfect, I’ll do it." So she did, but guess what happened. The more she demonstrated sacrificial love toward her husband, the more she began to actually love him, and at the end of a few months divorce was the furthest thing from her mind.
It must be remembered that when it comes to the practicalities of learning to live in love, it is a lifelong process. You never arrive at the place where you can say, “I love everyone perfectly now! I’m ready to move on!”
In Christ,
Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M98sTXVvftY
Saturday Evening worship services
at : First United Methodist Church,
53 McKinley Ave., Endicott.
Sponsored by Union Center United Methodist Church.
Schedule for the remainder of October:
October 23, 2010
Music by Aric Phinney and team
Preacher: Rev Earle Cowden
October 30, 2010
Music by Laureen Naik and team
Preacher: Jeff Vansyckle
November 6, 2010 - ( Saturday) There will be a Thanksgiving banquet. At 5 PM a traditional Thanksgiving menu will be served, including home made rolls and pies. Chef: Lou Pasquale and team. (Reservations: Call the Church office (607)-748-6329 or email at umcgospel@aol.com
The banquet will be followed by 6:30 PM Worship
Music: Aric Phinney and the team
Speaker: Kelly Johnson from Nashville, TN.
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