You are invited to the in-person Sunday Service on March 17 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
You can worship live on ZOOM by clicking the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9658816441 Meeting ID: 965 881 6441
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Fifth Sunday of Lent
Sunday, March 17, 2024, 10 am
Following worship there will be a St. Patrick’s Day lunch with corn beef and cabbage prepared by Marjorie and Marieta for our enjoyment this Sunday. You are invited to wear something green for the occasion.
Children’s Time: “St. Patrick’s Day” by Pastor John
Special Music: I Believe in a Hill Called Mt. Calvary by Carmelita Abenoja, solo
Words by Dale Oldham, Gloria & William Gaither,
Music by William J. Gaither Arranged by Joy T. Nilo,
Incorporating “The Old Rugged Cross” Words & Music by George Bennard
Message Past Is Prologue Rev. John Song
Part 2) “Implication for the Collective Life”
“What’s past is prologue.”
~ a quotation of William Shakespeare from his play The Tempest
The phrase “What’s past is prologue” means that history sets the context for the present. For this reason, we can’t forget the lessons of history because the past is a preface to the future. By knowing what has happened in the past, we can determine appropriate courses of action for creating a better present and future.
This Sunday in the second part of the “Past Is Prologue,” we will examine the application of the meaning of “What’s past is prologue” at a societal level.
“Learning history is an antidote to the hubris of the present.”
~ David McCullough, the 20th century American historian
“The headmistress of my girls school many years ago said to us, ‘Have the courage to be disturbed, to learn about the Holocaust and see what evil can mean, to learn about slavery and think about exploitation that is empowered by an ideology of race that we haven’t entirely dismantled. Understand what people did in the past so that you can, in the present, better critique your own assumptions, your own blindnesses, and make a world that’s a better world.’ If we don’t acknowledge those realities, we are disempowered as human beings.”
~ Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard from 2007-2018, warning against white washing history
“Who we are now is where we come from. The past is with us. We can’t pretend that it’s not, even as we misrepresent it or try to erase it. How do we have history that’s not uncomfortable? How do we have any kind of education that doesn’t make you in some way uncomfortable? Education asks you to examine the truth and make changes for better present.”
~ Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard from 2007-2018, warning against white washing history
“Who controls the past controls the future.”
~ George Orwell
“The truth will make you free.”
~ John 8:32