Kids’ News

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We were all ready for Sunday School, but today we had no kids! What a disappointment. We were ready to talk about God creating living things. It was the fifth and sixth days of creation when God created living things.

The swarming of living things is a description of how all creatures inhabit the earth. God divided the animals into three categories—- sea animals, sky animals, and land animals. Each area of the earth that God created needed different living things.

Fish, sea animals, and water plants needed the nourishment of water. Creatures that lived on land and flew in the sky needed plants and they needed areas to find food and to nest.

God made all living things diverse in color, shape, and size. God knew that each creature would serve a purpose and be a contributing part of creation. God saw all that was created as good and beautiful.

Children can use their imagination to create. Children delight in the beauty around them. Maybe we should start looking at the world through the eyes of a child—slowing our pace, looking at the ground below us, and stopping to give thanks for God’s world of wonder and beauty. See you in church.

2339 – Making a List

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2 Peter 1:5-7 New International Version

5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.

Friday’s Word

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“An Evening With The Gospel” Concert

I’m giving a concert Saturday night, 6:00 p.m.

This Saturday—the 9th.

St. Matthew has two of the best singers around, our choir director and our “star soloist.”

They are in on most of the shows in our new concert series, but not this one.

It’s just me.

So, tell me again why I am doing this?

It’s a fundraiser to keep Friday’s Word going and to support our music program.

We consider this little box in the paper a kind of ministry. It’s a way to reach—well—you with a sane message about faith when there is so much nonsense around.

But it ain’t cheap.

That’s where our Second Saturday Concerts come in. We’ve had two, and they seem to be working.

But this one is just me.

Ol’ Max.

Or old Max. And can Old Max still sing?

Or could he ever?

I’m clearly not the one to answer that. But I have been doing something like it all my life.

As a teen, I almost had a career singing How Great Thou Art.

When the great Dr. Charles Allen came to our small town to preach, I was trotted out to sing—yes—How Great Thou Art.

I sang it at 17 funerals in a two-year period.

But in recent years, with great singers around, I haven’t done much solo work.

So, why am I doing this concert? Want the truth?

I love to sing. It’s a spiritual experience for me to bring a song to life.

The concert is called An Evening with the Gospel.

It lasts an hour. It’s free, as is the dinner after.

We will take an offering. Consider coming at 6:00, tomorrow night, Saturday the 9th, at St. Matthew.

Max’s Corner

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This Sunday

I’ve got the concert Saturday.

Fortunately, Mary is preaching this Sunday. You know we have something to look forward to.

Mary opened her letter from the Conference in front of the congregation last week—the one telling her that she is approved by the Board of Ordained Ministry to be ordained as an Elder, limited at the moment to just St. Matthew. “Elder” is the title we give to an ordained pastor in the United Methodist Church. The limitations will be removed from Mary’s ordination after the vote in the General Conference in 2024. BUT—there is really nothing else that is needed for us at St. Matthew.

Mary is not just on the way.

For us, she has arrived.

About the Concert

For me, this week, it is all about the concert.

We have no idea what attendance will be.

We have advertised it extensively, including a mail-out to thousands in the community around the
church. We may have a good bunch. Or not.

There’s no way to know.

But I think we will have a good time.

Unfortunately, I can’t guarantee that either.

We will know what it is when it happens.

And it happens this Saturday at 6:00.

Bring some food.

This I can predict: I will be hungry.

We did seem to have a good service last week.

I believe the Spirit was working on us.

See you Saturday—and Sunday.

GOD BLESS—-MB