Those of you live in the
area join us for our weekly Television Outreach this evening at 7 PM on Time
Warner Cable channel 4. We will have a special ministry event at the Historic
First United Methodist Church, Endicott on Saturday September 21, 2013 at 12
Noon. It is a great time of food, fellowship, and ministry. Our Church also
will have a booth at the Annual Apple Festival of Endicott that will be held on
Saturday the 21st of September, 2013. It will be held at Washington Avenue,
Endicott. We will also have an evening of praise, worship, and testimony on
Saturday the 28th of September, 2013. It will be held at the First United
Methodist Church, Endicott. The worship will start at 5:30 PM, followed by a
banquet.
We are getting ready for our
Regular Worship service schedule to begin again this coming Sunday.
Union Center United Methodist
Church:
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Worship: 8:30 AM and 11:00 AM
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Sunday School for all ages 9:50 AM
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Coffee hour 12:30 PM
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The Young Disciples Class will meet at 5 PM
Wesley United Methodist Church:
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Worship 9.30 AM
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The Reformed Presbyterian worship will meet at 11 AM.
We are excited and blessed. The
Lord has placed before us an open door for worship and ministry. Praise the
Lord for the Church of the Lord Jesus around the corner and around the globe.
When we gather for worship this coming Sunday we will be joining our brother and
sisters around the globe proclaiming that Jesus is Lord. He the King of kings
and the Lord of lords. I get excited about the Church all over the globe.
Satan trembles when the saints sing and praise the name of Jesus our
Lord.
I love to read art history from
time to time. The best art, the best music, and the best architecture deal
withe Biblical themes.
In the year 1464 a sculptor
named Agostino di Duccio began working on a huge piece of flawed marble.
Intending to produce a magnificent sculpture of an Old Testament prophet for a
cathedral in Florence, Italy, he labored for two years and then stopped. In
1476 Antonio Rossellino started to work on the same piece of marble and in time
he also abandoned it. In 1501 a 26-year-old sculptor, Michelangelo, was
offered a considerable sum of money to produce something worthwhile from that
enormous block of marble which had been nicknamed, “the giant.” As he began his
work, he saw a major flaw near the bottom that had stymied other sculptors,
including (it is said) Leonardo da Vinci. He decided to turn that part of the
stone into a broken tree stump that would support the right leg. The rest he
worked on for four years until he had produced the incomparable sculpture known
as “David.” Today the seventeen-foot-tall statue stands on display at the
Academia Gallery in Florence, where people come from around the world to view
it. More than a masterpiece, it is one of the greatest works of art ever
produced. It has been said that there is no statue more
perfect.
How did Michelangelo do it?
Here is the answer in his own words:
“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.”
All of us are
works-in-progress. We are not finished, not glorified, not perfected, and
not completed. We are all “under construction.” If you ever visited a
construction zone, you know that it is noisy and looks messy. While the
hammering and sawing continues, it’s hard to imagine what the final result will
be. Praise the Lord that He never stops working on us because there is so much
work that needs to be done. “Now we
are the children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known” (1
John 3:2),
In Christ,
Brown
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