Get ready for some block parties for Vacation Bible School during the week of July the 4th. We will do 2 block parties that week on Tuesday Night and Wednesday Night from 6-8PM and they will be held at The Curry residence on Merriman Ave. and at the Projects. Please be in prayer for us as we invite children to our Vacation Bible School and share our faith with the community.
With the space I have left I would like to share an interesting quote from the past. In studying church history this past week I came across a writing of Gregory of Nazianzus, who lived from A.D. 329-89. There are some who have claimed that the church did not recognize (or as some skeptics claim “invent the idea”) that Jesus was God until about the 5th century A.D.
Gregory wrote long before such claims and observed the mystery of how Jesus was both human and also God:
“Jesus was baptized as Man— but He remitted sins as God…
He was tempted as Man, but He conquered as God…
He hungered— but He fed thousands…
He thirsted— but He cried, If anyone thirst, let him come unto Me and drink…
He was wearied, but He is the Rest of them that are weary and heavy laden…
He was heavy with sleep, but He walked lightly over the sea…
He prays, but He hears prayer…
He weeps, but He causes tears to cease…
He asks where Lazarus was laid, for He was Man; but He raises Lazarus, for He was God…
He is sold for a cheap thirty pieces of silver; but He redeems the world at the great price of His own blood.
As a sheep He is led to the slaughter, but He is the Shepherd of Israel, and now of the whole world.
As a Lamb He is silent, yet He is the Word…
He is bruised and wounded, but He heals every disease and every infirmity.
He is lifted up and nailed to the Tree, but by the Tree of Life He restores us;
He dies, but He gives life, and by His death destroys death.
He is buried, but He rises again…”
May God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit bless us in our spiritual growth this week!
- Bro. Dave
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