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This Sunday is our Thanksgiving worship service, followed by our Thanksgiving luncheon! I look forward to a great service on the positive topic of gratitude. Not just the contemplation of it, but the practice, and how it can change
lives.
Only 2 Weeks till Our Path to Bethlehem!! Reminder: Our well-loved, annual, outdoor live nativity - the
Path to Bethlehem - will be held on the first Saturday of December. That's December 2, 2017. Please set aside that date for this very special public event. A wonderful way to welcome the Christmas season.
WANTED: HOMEMADE COOKIES FOR THE PATH TO BETHLEHEM In honor of our “Cookie
Lady,” Fran Blaesing, we are continuing the tradition of offering homemade goods to everyone who attends this special event. If you want to contribute to this fun service project (either with baked goods or funds towards supplies) talk with Cheri Reynolds.
Last Sunday's Concert - Eduardo Costa - November 12 at 2:30 pm That was a really great concert - the best ever!!
With love and
respect, Nathan |
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UPCOMING ACTIVITIES AT SUNRISE CHAPEL
SUNDAY 11/19/2017 11 am Special Thanksgiving Celebration Worship Service 12:00 pm Thanksgiving "Mostly Potluck" Luncheon - Everyone Welcome! Sign up to bring a dish or just show up! (see below)
MONDAY 11/20/2017 11 am Tai Chi Class in Friendship Hall NOT today - Small Group Study of OffTheLeftEye
videos
TUESDAY 11/21/2017 6:30 pm Bereavement Support Group
WEDNESDAY 11/22/2017 9:30 am Worship Team
meeting THURSDAY 11/23/2017 Happy Thanksgiving!!
No Women's Group on Thanksgiving night 11 am Worship Service
12:00 pm Luncheon - Everyone Welcome! 12:15 pm Semi Annual Church
Meeting
Thanksgiving is coming up!! |
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Thanksgiving Celebration - This Sunday, November 19
Here at Sunrise Chapel we have the wonderful tradition of enjoying a mostly pot luck feast the Sunday before the National Holiday. You don't need to sign up - just show up, and if you feel called, bring a dish or something to share.
BRING A DONATION FOR THE FOOD BANK This year we invite you to bring an item (or several) for the Southern Arizona Food Bank!
Note: There will be no church-sponsored activities on Thursday, Nov.
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A Wealth of Fascinating Videos for Discussion - Mondays at 2 pm |
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NO MEETING THIS MONDAY, November 20
We are taking a break this week to focus on preparations for the Path to Bethlehem. Stay tuned for the next meeting to take a fascinating look at various spiritual topics. Each video is packed with material for discussion. Our resources are video podcasts by two friends, Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose. These two (and their amazing support team) are producing great programs to spread really helpful
information from a Swedenborgian perspective (1) about how to handle life’s ups and downs and (2) about understanding the Bible.
Each Monday we view parts of an episode from Curtis Childs’ You Tube Channel called “offTheLeftEye”. We hit pause many times throughout each meeting to share questions and ideas with each other. It's really educational and also just
fun. Each video is fast-paced, information-packed, down-to-earth at the same time as being uplifting and “spiritual.” He has so many thought-provoking shows on different topics and of various lengths of time. Currently we are focusing on a few of these episodes.
Join the study and fun! ALMOST weekly meetings on Monday at 2 pm at Sunrise Chapel. No meeting on November 20. ~Nathan |
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Readings/lessons for
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Humility and Gratitude
Secrets of Heaven 5957
Everything that flows from the Lord by way of the internal into the external or natural is freely given. Our humility, worship, thanksgiving, and much else, seem like repayment, so that the Lord's gifts do not seem to be free. But the Lord does not demand those things for His own sake,
for the Divine derives no glory at all from a person's humility, worship, or thanksgiving. It is utterly inconceivable that any self-love should exist within the Divine, causing Him to require such actions for His own sake. Rather, they are required for our own sake, for if we possess humility we are able to accept goodness from the Lord, since in that case we have been separated from self-love and its evils which are the obstacle, and they stand in the way of accepting that goodness. Therefore
the Lord desires a state of humility in us for our sake, because the Lord can flow in with heavenly good when that state exists in us. The same applies to worship and thanksgiving.
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