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I'm still on a roll with this series on Finding Joy
This Sunday, let's look into a very important part of daily life - resilience. Finding ways to bounce back, recover, start over, etc.
Picture a basketball player who misses a shot and then quickly looks down, shaking her head, focusing on the mistake and turning away. Now picture the same player with a new attitude who isn’t focused on the miss but on the next opportunity – the rebound. It’s an attitude of psychological elasticity, resilience. I submit we need this attitude to be effective in our spiritual growth. A friend of mine calls
this “reboundology.” In this connection, the readings from the Word (below) show the difference between the spirit of rigidity and flexibility.
What did you think of last week's topic on finding joy in helplessness? Often helplessness is characterized as bad and unhappy, but it is the joy of angels to realize that of themselves they are powerless and helpless. Paradoxically, angels are very powerful and not at all helpless when they put their trust and faith in the Lord's power and become a channel for His love. How is that working for you this
week?
This series: The word "joy" seems like a pretty exceptional experience, but the Lord clearly says he wants us to experience it fully - which I take to mean all the time. A tall goal, for sure. Jesus said, “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full." John
15:11
Patiently waiting for a granddaughter's birth
As soon as I hear any news of our daughter's baby's birth, I will let y'all know.
Service Projects
Please see below for the new efforts at community service projects, including NEXT FRIDAY August 23 at 9 am - Sandwich making - in the church kitchen. For more information, contact Judith 520-390-4112
A new large screen TV monitor for lyrics and slides
By now, in only a few weeks, the large monitor is already part of our routine. It's bright, high resolution, and enhances all our visuals. I'm so relieved to have this as a replacement for the aging and temperamental ceiling projector. And thank you to Bob Youens for taking on operating the slide show each Sunday!
What do you think about our livestream?
It's basic, with just one camera, but it provides a window into our weekly worship. And the same link will get you to the recorded videos if you aren't able to join "live." Please like and subscribe and comment and share - it all helps promote the usefulness and value of this effort!
With love and respect,
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NEW! Our own Little Free Library
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Thanks to Judith for registering our church's Little Free Library. You can look it up on the website littlefreelibrary.org Charter #91880.
It seems to be working - books are moving.
This is another way to serve people.
Thanks to Chip for fully taking on the design and construction! And thanks to Judith Keane for her support and encouragement of this project and to Nikos Casto for help with installation.
Thanks also to Élise Gladish for her long-held interest in this project. She loves books so much, especially children's books, that almost every time she sees a Little Free Library she takes a photo of it. She has quite a collection of photos. It has been a dream of hers to have such a feature on Sunrise Chapel’s property. ~Nathan
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THIS WEEK'S ACTIVITIES AT SUNRISE CHAPEL
11 am Worship Service - Nathan Gladish Finding Joy in Resilience
12 noon LUNCHEON - Bill's famous homemade Spaghetti!
MONDAY 8/19/2018
11 am Tai Chi class (Basic)
6:30 pm Bereavement Support Group
WEDNESDAY 8/21/2019
No Worship Team mtg today
THURSDAY 8/22/2019
11 am Tai Chi class (Yang 24)
Women's Group - Contact Elise Gladish for details
FRIDAY 8/23/2019
9 am Sandwich making service project in the church kitchen
5 pm Private wedding rehearsal in the Chapel
6 pm Teen Time with the Pastor
SATURDAY 8/24/2019
10:30 am Private Celebration of Life in the Chapel
5 pm Private wedding rehearsal in the Chapel
SUNDAY 8/25/2019
10 am Music rehearsal
11 am Worship Service
12 noon Luncheon - AZ Mountain Camp Lunch
Service Projects to
help people in our community
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Thank you to Judith Keane and Betsy Gladish for organizing these activities!
Judith and Betsy are getting back into facilitating some Community Service Projects again!
Current projects include:
DONE! Installation of a brand new "Little Free Library" on Sunrise Chapel - Friday August 2
Donations of hats and sunscreen for the homeless continues. Thank you for your donations so far!
Coming up next Friday - Sandwich making for distribution to the homeless - Friday August 23 @ 9 am at Sunrise Chapel
Sandwich making (especially for kids to help) - Saturday October 12 @ 9 am at Sunrise Chapel
Packing bags for the homeless - Women’s Group project - date TBD
If you are interested or have an idea for a project please call Judith 520-390-4112.
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Readings for this
Sunday's 11 am Worship Service
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God’s Promise to Replace a Hardened Heart
Ezekiel 36:26-28 (New International Version)
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.
Jesus Cures an Invalid
John 5:1-9
Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
Spiritual Flexibility
Secrets of Heaven 7068
People motivated by good are so to speak flexible. Truth without good is utterly rigid; but when it regards good as the end in view, that rigidity starts to change into flexibility. Good on the other hand is in itself flexible, and when it has truth introduced into it, that truth too, because it develops into good there, becomes flexible. The reason why this happens is that truth cannot be set in its proper place in a heavenly form except by good, which means that in itself truth is inflexible.
The form of heaven is utterly fluid and not at all resistant. As a consequence good – and truth with it set in its proper place – is of a similar nature, and is flexible.
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Your church home for partnering with the Lord and each other in the practice of cultivating spiritual growth and choosing heavenly joy www.sunrisechapel.org nathan@sunrisechapel.org Office 520-298-1245 |
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