Brown's Daily Word 10-4-11

Good morning,
Praise the Lord for this new day. The forecast is for some beautiful and brilliant autumn days this week. The colors of fall should peak around here in the next week or so. We usually have September frost, but this year we had none. Praise the Lord for many theologians and Christian thinkers from around the world who have blessed my heart. Two brothers, John and Don Baillie from Scotland, number among them. I use, "A Diary of Private Prayer", by John Baillie in my morning devotions. One of his prayers follows:
"O God, who of Thy love and pity didst send us Jesus Christ for the illumination of our darkness, give me wisdom to profit by the words He spoke and grace to follow in the steps He trod.
"Jesus Christ said, 'When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any.' O God, give me grace now so to do.
"Jesus Christ said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' O God, give me grace to-day to think, not of what I can get, but of what I can give.
"Jesus Christ said, 'When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.' O God, grant that what I give may be given without self-congratulation, and without thought of praise or reward.
"Jesus Christ said, 'Enter ye in at the strait gate.' O God, give me grace this day to keep to the narrow path of duty and honourable dealing.
"Jesus Christ said, 'Judge not.' O God, give me grace this day first to cast out the beam out of my own eye, before I regard the mote that is in my brother's eye.
"Jesus Christ said, 'What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?' O God, give me grace so to live this day that, whatever else I lose, I may not lose my soul."
In Christ,
Brown
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Saturday , October 8.2011
Praise and worship service:
First United Methodist Church , Endicott
Sponsored by Union Center UMC
6PM Gathering- Coffeee- Fellowship
6.30PM Worship
Music: Laureen Naik
Speaker: Jim Nedlik
Please mark your calendar for our prayer conference, which will begin on Friday, October 14 and continue through Sunday morning, October 16.
The Keynote Speaker: Kelly Johnson from Memphis, TN.
The Prayer Team will include: Sunita and Andy, Rob and Jenn, and Meredith from Washington, DC.

The tentative schedule follows:
Friday, October 14 at 6 PM - opening session at Union Center UMC
Saturday, October 15, 9 AM - noon - concert of prayer at UCUMC
The Prayer teams will be available to pray for people for salvation, restoration, healing, deliverance...
Saturday, 5:30 PM - banquet at First UMC, 53 McKinley Ave., Endicott
6:30 PM worship service, including an open invitation to pray at the altar following the worship service. I invite you to be a part of the prayer team during that time.
Sunday morning worship at 8:30 and 11 AM. at UCUMC Kelly Johnson will be preaching. There will be a time for prayer / a concert of prayer

Saturday, October 8.2011 at 6:30 PM (Coffee Fellowship at 6 PM) at First United Methodist Church, 53 McKinley Avenue in Endicott.
Our youth will be attending the Word of Life Superbowl at the arena and other sites on November 4 & 5.
Our annual Thanksgiving Banquet will be held on Saturday, November 19.
The Russian Men's Ensemble will be in concert on December 3.
We are planning for a trip to the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Extravaganza on December 6, leaving here at 6 AM, spending the day in NYC, and attending the show at 5 PM. There are optional sites to visit, including the Ground Zero 9/11 Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. The trip costs $90 per person, including the bus ticket and a ticket to the show. Anyone who wants to reserve a spot on the bus should make their check payable to Union Center United Methodist Church, memo "Radio City Christmas Extravaganza".
Here at Union Center- Wesley- Endicott, we focus on " World as our Parish"., We remind ourselves that we serve under a captain who has never lost a battle. Jesus Christ the Head of the Church is Faithful. We are invited to embrace 7 holy habits of Christian faithfulness. We are called to FOCUS on our prayer life, our relationship with Christ, reading the Bible, faithful worship attendance, financial gifts to Christ and His Church,, serving Jesus with our hands, and sharing the good news of His Great Redemption,with others. May Christ be praised.