The Joy of Spiritual Growth series
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Turning a Blind Eye
I love what the Lord teaches about eyesight. Even blindness, though physically tragic, has so much to teach us spiritually. This Sunday, we will explore the value of NOT seeing, or in other words deliberately putting on blinders in order to keep our focus on what is most important.
In our current series on Spiritual Growth Tasks, this task is #22 in our card deck and also on www.choosejoynow.org.
This will be our final Sunday in this series of topics. Then comes Palm Sunday and Easter - already!
TONIGHT - Casual Social Opportunity with Music - Friday Apr 5
If you attended our Benefit Fundraiser in February, you got a nice introduction to the local band, "After 7". If you missed it, all the more reason to check this out! After 7 is playing again tonight at St. Philips Plaza, and a few church folks are gathering there for the fun of it. The event is from 7-11 pm. Find out more about them on their website www.after7tucson.com
Art Watson Invites You to Concerts by the Sons of Orpheus
The Sons of Orpheus is also known as the Male Choir of Tucson, of which Art is a member. They are presenting the 28th Spring Concert featuring an eclectic mix from Tchesnokov and Mascagni to Randall Thompson, as well as cowboy favorites and Broadway musical selections with talented guest performers.
Concert dates
April 6 – St Francis in the Foothills Methodist Church
April 12 – The Highlands at Dove Mountain
April 13 – Vista de la Montana United Methodist Church
April 26 – Northminster Presbyterian Church
Cost of Tickets - $15.00 or by sponsorship
Contact Art at 520-343-9029 for tickets or see him after services
Coming Right Up!
April 14 — Palm Sunday
April 19 — Good Friday evening service at 7 pm
April 21 — Easter Sunday
7 am Early outdoor service
11 am Festival service
+ Egg Hunt
Noon Easter Luncheon COVERED DISH
April 28 — David Lindrooth, guest preacher
May 5 — Cinco de Mayo Neighborhood celebration here at Sunrise Chapel (see below)
Thank you to Frank Rose
Thank you so much to Frank Rose for leading the Sunday service last week while Elise and I were out of town. We had a wonderful visit with family and friends in downtown Philadelphia, then Bryn Athyn, PA, then we also went to Mitchellville, MD.
Help with Building Rentals, including an incentive
Sunrise Chapel is a wonderful place for meetings and special activities of many kinds. We really want to serve the community, and we can offer various spaces for less cost than most commercial places. Recently, one of our groups that has been using our Friendship Hall every Tuesday night for many years had to downsize and consolidate their classes at a different facility. This is a big loss of income for Sunrise
Chapel.
If you know any group or individual who is looking for a venue to hold classes, meetings, or special occasions, please refer them to Sunrise Chapel.
As an incentive, by Board approval, a referral fee will be offered to anyone for whom a referral turns into a booking! Talk to me or any Board member.
With love and respect,
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THIS WEEK'S ACTIVITIES AT SUNRISE CHAPEL
No Teen Talk Small Group today (resumes next Friday)
7 pm Casual Social Opportunity at St Philips Plaza - After 7 Band, playing. Join some church folks who will be there for fun.
11 am Worship - Choose Joy #6
12 noon LUNCHEON
MONDAY 4/8/2018
11 am Tai Chi class (Basic)
6:30 pm Bereavement Support Group
WEDNESDAY 4/10/2019
9:30 am Worship Team mtg
1 pm afternoon Spiritual Growth Group, led by Nathan Gladish
6:30 pm evening Spiritual Growth Group, led by Frank Rose
11 am Tai Chi (Yang 24)
7 pm Women's Group - Contact Elise Gladish for details
4:45 pm Teen Talk Small Group
SUNDAY 4/14/2019
11 am Worship - PALM SUNDAY
12 noon LUNCHEON
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Sunday Series concludes this week - featuring Spiritual Growth Tasks:
It's been a good run of messages based on our "Card Deck" of 52 Spiritual Growth Tasks:
Sunday, Feb. 24 - Stair Climb (card deck task #13)
Sunday, Mar. 3 - Self Observation (card deck task #33)
Sunday, Mar. 17 - Non-Identification (card deck task #3)
Sunday, Mar. 24 - Golden Rule (card deck task #5)
Sunday, Mar. 31 - Getting Out of Prison (new task)
Sunday, Apr. 7 - Turn a Blind Eye (card deck task #22)
Weekly Small Groups featuring Spiritual Growth Tasks:
Wednesday afternoons 1:00 to 2:00 pm in the Chapel, led by Nathan Gladish
Wednesday evenings 6:30 to 8 pm in the Chapel, led by Frank Rose, co-leader Judith Keane.
Thursday evenings 7:00 to 8:30 pm Women's Group in homes, led by Elise Gladish and other women.
You can also find the tasks and supporting information about them on www.choosejoynow.org
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Sunrise Chapel Hosts a Cinco de Mayo Neighborhood Celebration
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Help us welcome our neighbors to a very special event at Sunrise Chapel!
Sunday, May 5 starting at noon
12 Noon – Catered Mexican Luncheon
1 pm – Live Mariachi Alma Mexicana Quartet
PLUS
Live Ballet Folklorico Children's Dance Group
Local Artisans & Crafts
Piñata * Raffles * Silent Auction Items
This will be a community-oriented FUN-raiser as well as a fundraiser.
Excellent Mexican food will be catered by the same chef who provided for our Chapel's 30th Anniversary Celebration in 2017.
The professional mariachi band is awesome.
There will be lots going on.
It'll be well worth your donation and your time!
Tickets are $20/adult $10/child Kids under 7 FREE
We need volunteers. Please talk with Gail Benton and Claudia Osmus for ways to get involved.
Thank you to Gail Benton for helping us help others while we also make progress on our church's financial challenges!
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Readings for this
Sunday's Church Service
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Matthew 7:1-5
Jesus taught, “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
Isaiah 42:18-20
“Hear, you deaf;
look, you blind, and see!
Who is blind but my servant,
and deaf like the messenger I send?
Who is blind like the one in covenant with me,
blind like the servant of the Lord?”
Apocalypse Explained §409 - Swedenborg
This quote from Isaiah 42 is said of the Lord, who in respect to His Divine Human is here called "a servant," because He served his Father by doing His will...
He is called "blind" and "deaf" because the Lord is as if He did not see and perceive the sins of people, for He leads gently, bending and not breaking, thus leading away from evils, and leading to good; therefore He does not chastise and punish, like one who sees and perceives.
It is therefore here meant that He as it were does not see, although He possesses the Divine truth from which He understands all things, and that He does not will according to what He perceives, although He has the Divine good, from which He is able to achieve all things.
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