Saint Matthew United Methodist Church

  • Kids’ News

    Sue Kelcey

    We were missing our kids on Sunday; it must have been Fair Day! We had a wonderful lesson as we continued to travel with Abraham and Sarah. They had moved from their home in Haran and traveled to a new land.

    They must have wondered how God was going to make a great nation of them since they had no children. God appeared to them again when Abraham was at least 100 years old. Only this time, Abraham was not aware God was visiting. Three guests appeared near his tent. Abraham extended hospitality to them. Their identity was unclear; but Abraham invited them to stay, provided water to wash their feet, and served them a meal.

    In the Bible, hospitality to travelers and strangers was very important. The guests told Abraham that in a year’s time, when they returned, he and Sarah would have a son.

    Sarah was listening inside the tent and laughed to herself. After all, Sarah was well past the age to have children. Sarah had faith in God, but must have wondered how God would keep this promise. The Lord’s response to her laughter is, “Is anything too difficult for the Lord?”

    Hopefully we will see you in church Sunday so we can learn the name of Sarah’s son.

    Blessings

  • Saint Matthew Today for October 11th, 2023

    Jason Hardy
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  • 2343 – Don’t Forget The Good Stuff

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    Philippians 4:12 New International Version

    12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.

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  • Friday’s Word

    Max Brennan

    An Atheist Meets a Miracle

    Emile Zola (1840-1902) was a prominent French novelist and an atheist.

    He hated Catholicism.

    He particularly hated the claim that Mary had appeared to a peasant girl in Lourdes in 1858.

    Lourdes became a place of pilgrimage. And there were reports of healings.

    Zola determined to prove it was all a fake.

    On the train down to Lourdes, he saw a young girl named Marie, age 16, who had three diseases for which there was no cure at that time: advanced lupus, TB, and huge ulcerations on her legs.

    Her face was eaten away, distorted by the lupus, and “oozing blood.”

    Zola decided then and there she would be his test case. And he was standing by, along with a doctor, when Marie entered the baths.

    She came out changed.

    Her face looked normal.

    It was clear that she was healed.

    The doctor said, “Ah, Monsieur Zola, behold the case of your dreams.”

    Zola said, “I do not want to look at her; she is still ugly to me.”

    The doctor accompanied her to the hospital. Her lungs were clear. She had no medical problems. And she remained healthy many years later.

    Zola said, “Were I to see all the sick at Lourdes healed, I would not believe in miracles.”

    I include a couple of healing stories in the book I am still working on, Discovering God.

    Such accounts are not hard to find, even accounts verified by doctors.

    But where do you stand on this? Does a God who heals fit in with your theology?

    Let me know.

    Write to me at the e-mail address below.

    Does God heal?

    I love hearing from you.

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  • Max’s Corner

    Max Brennan

    Vacation

    I know Vermont is lovely.

    As I write this, I haven’t seen it yet.

    I am doing my bit in this newsletter before I leave.

    I just wrote last week’s bit.

    I will get up from my computer in a minute and finish my packing.

    But I do want to remind you of the concert coming up on the 14th —Saturday at 6:00.

    Yes, that’s still over a week away, but make your plans now to attend. Stick a reminder on the refrigerator. Use some gum to stick a note on your bedpost. Or—just keep it in mind.

    We are having a great time in Vermont.

    Or—at least—I’m sure we will.

    (Still packing to go.)

    But I do already miss you.

    Stay safe till we return.

    And–

    GOD BLESS—-MB