You are invited to the in-person Worship Service on June 11 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
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Second Sunday of Pentecost
Sunday, June 11, 2023, 10 am
This Sunday is Lego Sunday.
First, children will be in worship. Following the Special Music,
the teacher, Joan Culbertson, will lead our children to the Nursery Room.
Special Music My Fair Lady Marina Thomas, piano solo
Message “Bring Your Oil Lamp” AR Pointer
Mathew 25: 1-13
The Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten young women took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3 When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. 5 As the bridegroom was delayed, all of them became drowsy and slept. 6 But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look! Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ 7 Then all those young women got up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 But the wise replied, ‘No! there will not be enough for you and for us; you had better go to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.’
10 And while they went to buy it, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went with him into the wedding banquet, and the door was shut. 11 Later the other young women came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ 12 But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I do not know you.’ 13 Keep awake, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.”
“Don’t fight the darkness —
stay connected to Christ, the bringer of light,
and darkness will disappear.”
~ John Song
Make ready for the Christ,
Whose smile, like lightning,
Sets free the song of everlasting glory
That now sleeps, in your paper flesh, like dynamite.
~ Thomas Merton, “The Victory”
