Call to Artists: Bread and Wine/Body and Blood/Fullness of Emptiness
Every time we take communion, we are responding to Jesus’ invitation to partake of His Suffering. The Church is founded on nothing less than the reality of His Broken Body and Shed Blood. Lent gives us an opportunity to focus, focus, focus on His journey to Jerusalem (remember last year’s “Like a Flint”), the Triumphal Entry, the Upper Room, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Trial, the Via De La Rosa, Golgotha, the Garden Tomb, and the Fullness of the Emptiness.
Jacob’s Well is blessed to have so many wonderful fine artists in our family. This Lenten season I hope to include the gifts of our artists in the services, just as we did with the musical talents during Advent. Therefore…
…painters, sculptors, photographers; this is a call to you to provide works to adorn the sanctuary during Lent, works that you believe reflect the Lord’s Passion and Victory. With each work please include a brief artist’s statement as to your inspiration and intent. Ideally, we hang about ten works of art. Interested? Contact Pastor Dave.
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Week #3: To the Church in Pergamum:
“White Stone with Your New Name”
The Wonder of God to You… and (amazingly) Vice Versa
“We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the Divine love may rest ‘well pleased’.” from The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis
The Church at Pergamum – and the Church at Jacob’s Well – were called into existence so that the Love of God might be experienced, shared, and made a spectacle to a watching world which worships worthlessly.
Reflect. Repent. Rejoice!
Call to Artists
Bread and Wine/Body and Blood/Fullness of Emptiness
Every time we take communion, we are responding to Jesus’ invitation to partake of His Suffering. The Church is founded on nothing less than the reality of His Broken Body and Shed Blood. Lent gives us an opportunity to focus, focus, focus on His journey to Jerusalem (remember last year’s “Like a Flint”), the Triumphal Entry, the Upper Room, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Trial, the Via De La Rosa, Golgotha, the Garden Tomb, and the Fullness of the Emptiness.
Jacob’s Well is blessed to have so many wonderful fine artists in our family. This Lenten season I hope to include the gifts of our artists in the services, just as we did with the musical talents during Advent. Therefore…
…painters, sculptors, photographers; this is a call to you to provide works to adorn the sanctuary during Lent, works that you believe reflect the Lord’s Passion and Victory. With each work please include a brief artist’s statement as to your inspiration and intent. Ideally, we hang about ten works of art. Interested? See Pastor.
News & Announcements:
- Prayer gathering this Wednesday: 7:00 @ the church
- Advocate Bromenn Partners in Prayer January – Cardiovascular Care Unit
- A Little Night Magic! Valentine’s Dinner for Couples @ Broadview Mansion on Saturday, Feb. 11
Guys: ask Harvey & Cary how you can help…and start practicing your manners! - Summer in the USA!
Lord-willing, we will once again host Basque students next summer. If you want to play a part, pray a part, or help plan a part, please let Bob V. know. - Weekly Soul Food:
Women: 6:00-7:00 p.m., Thursdays @ church.
Men: 6:00-7:00 p.m., Mondays @ Dave Park’s Place
6:00 a.m., Wednesdays @ church (Fraternity)
Readers: Tuesdays @ Noah pad @ 1202 Fell, B-ton. The Great Divorce brightens us @ 7:00 p.m. - Why Live the Gospel Among the Navajo?
In 1864 Capt. Thompson and 35 troops of the First New Mexico Cavalry systematically destroyed 4000 peach and apple trees in the Navajo stronghold of Canyon De Chelly.
Next week:
#4 of 7: What Jacob’s Well can learn from… The Church at Thyatira > Service with a Smile…But Don’t Laugh at Heresy
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SE7EN: Week 2 > To the Church in Smyrna: “Provision in Poverty and Pain”
Week #2: To the Church in Smyrna:
“Provision in poverty and pain”
The Power of “that”
There are times when the experience of being a Daughter or Son of Adam redeemed by the Second Adam is a glorious reality; those are life’s transcendentally joyous moments. We might call them “a little taste of heaven.”
There are also times when the reality of being a Son or Daughter of Adam means that the curse of Our Fall seems to overwhelm; those are life’s all-too-inescapable distortions and deaths to life, relief, and goodness. We might call them “a bitter taste of hell.”
This realm of our existence is, indeed, “the Shadowlands.” Not everything is bright and clear, yet Light is here and it illumines the darkness. The early church at Smyrna lived through extremes of Light and darkness. Their story teaches us that this sometimes tortured “living” is absolutely within the Lord’s Ultimate Purposes for His People. Consider this verse:
Do not fear what you are about to suffer.
Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you
into prison, that you may be tested…
There is an unmistakable relationship between suffering and sanctity; we have no greater example of this than Our Lord. And He invites us into the “fellowship of His suffering” that we might be transformed into His likeness.
We have brothers and sisters around the world who are suffering. Some of them are even being thrown into prison. The devil is all over them to steal and destroy. Yet, as we learned last week, Christ is with them, taking them through these “bitter tastes of hell” because He knows that a Shadowless Glory awaits.
Tests will come, that we might prove His surpassing glory.
News & Announcements:
- Prayer gathering this Wednesday: 7:00 @ the church
- Advocate Bromenn Partners in Prayer January – Cardiovascular Care Unit
- A Little Night Magic!
Valentine’s Dinner for Couples
@ Broadview Mansion
Saturday, Feb. 11
Guys: ask Harvey & Cary how you can help…
and start practicing your manners! - Summer in the USA!
Lord-willing, we will once again host Basque students next summer. If you want to play a part, pray a part, or help plan a part, please let Bob V. know. - Annual Business Meeting
Right after church – a review of last year’s numbers and ministry; ideas/opportunities for 2012
Lunch provided. - Weekly Soul Food:
Women: 6:00-7:00 p.m., Thursdays @ church.
Men: 6:00-7:00 p.m., Mondays @ Dave Park’s Place
6:00 a.m., Wednesdays @ church (Fraternity)
Readers: Tuesdays @ Noah Poirot’s, C.S. Lewis speaks with British accent weekly @ 7:00 p.m.
Next week:
#3 of 7: What Jacob’s Well can learn from… The Church at Pergamum > Living for Christ in the midst of strong Satanic influence
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