Lion for Prophet

 

Harvey told a joke at the Army this week:

 

There is a fellow who is big game hunting somewhere in Africa along with his wife and her parents. One afternoon, his mother-in-law is missing so, of course, they all franticly search for her. The wife spies her mother and grabs her husband. She points to a clearing where they see her mother who is face to face with a lion. “Do something!” she exclaims to her husband.

          “No” he replies, “the lion got himself into this mess, he can very well get himself out of it.” (I imagine that the point of this story is simply pointing out the superior big game hunting skills of his wife’s mother)

The pericope that we are looking at today contains a lion and a person but the person who comes face-to-face with the lion doesn’t fare quite as well as the fellow’s mother-in-law in our opening anecdote presumably does. This scriptural episode with the lion is just one aspect of the story that we read today and this passage has so many fascinating parts to it.

 

read more: http://sheepspeaks.blogspot.ca/2012/11/1-kings-13-lion-for-prophet.html

Philippians quiz

1)      Philippians live in what city?

2)      Who is the city of Philippi named after?

3)      Who was Phillip?

4)      What other famous battle took there?

5)      Does anyone remember, where in the Bible right around Christmas time that we would we read about Caesar Augustus?
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Answers plus: http://sheepspeaks.blogspot.ca/2012/11/philippians-1-be-bold-for-gospel.html

Greater Love Has No Man Than To Lay Down His Life For His Friends (John 15:13)

Presented to the community of Nipawin at the Remembrance Day Ceremony, November 11, 2007, and to the community of Swift Current at the Remembrance Day Ceremony, November 11, 2009 and 2012 by Captain Michael Ramsay (Padre, Royal Canadian Legion #56)

Greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his friends, John 15:13.

On November 11, 1918, the armistice was signed to end the Great War, the war to end all wars – the First World War. Canadians, our friends and our family, in service to God, King, and country, marched overseas to lay down their lives for our friends

Greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his friends.

On November 11, 1813, almost 200 years ago now, Canadians repulsed an horrific enemy invasion, with the help of our friends, the British and the First Nations. We laid down our life for our family. They laid down their life for us, their friends.

Greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his friends.

On November 11, we remember also our friends and families, some of whom are here today, who headed overseas again, in what is remembered now as World War II, in service to God, King, and country to lay down their lives for their friends. Many of us have friends and family who marched out of Saskatchewan here to offer their lives up for their friends. My uncle from Silver Stream never spoke of the day they were surrounded by the Germans until he died a couple of years ago.

read more: http://sheepspeaks.blogspot.ca/2007/11/greater-love-has-no-man-than-to-lay.html

Christmas Kettle Training

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Sally's War

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On November 11th we remember our friends and families who served in the World Wars, Korea, peacekeeping missions and subsequent conflicts in the 20th and 21st centuries. My own grandfather returned home to Saskatchewan from California, where he was working when the Second World War broke out, to join the Canadian Army. He eagerly grabbed some friends from Cut Knife and they all signed up for our armed forces. Of the men that enlisted that day with my grandfather, I believe, only he lived to see the end of the war. John 15:17, in the Bible, records:'Greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his friends'

The Salvation Army was also present in both these wars – actually in the trenches -offering material and emotional support and the love of God to the soldiers. I am humbled and honoured to share with you today some of what the Lord has done through the Canadian Salvation Army in the conflicts of 20th Century.

During both world wars and throughout the Cold War, The Salvation Army was very active. We provided military personnel with basic comforts and helped maintain morale by establishing leave centres for rest and recreation providing a degree of civility amidst the loneliness and dehumanizing conditions of war. As an Officer in The Salvation Army, I thank you today for the opportunity that those who went before me had to serve.

Read more: http://renewnetwork.blogspot.ca/2010_11_01_archive.html

Proverbs 3:13-18: Advertising Haikus for Life.

Presented to Swift Current Corps of The Salvation Army, 04 Nov. 2012.

By Captain Michael Ramsay

 

The passage today would be a wonderful teaching pericope on wisdom.  Ellen F. Davis has referred to the book of Proverbs as a series of short haikus or poems.[1] If we had more time or if this was a class that I was teaching rather than a homily, I would actually have us all writing haikus about wisdom before its conclusion but since it is not I won’t make us write haikus… about wisdom. I will still let us each try to write a haiku but it can be about anything you want. You each have a pen and paper so I’ll give us each a chance to see how we do. Now so that we all know what we are doing, we will look at a few sample haikus to start us off today. First, can anyone sum up for me roughly, what is a haiku? A haiku is a short Japanese poem that often has 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third line; and the last line is supposed to make you think about the first 2 lines in a whole new way. I am going to have at least one person read out the haiku that we each write here; so be prepared - think about it. Here are some examples for us by Udiah:[2]

 

The Rainbow (Gen 9: 8-17)

after summer's rain (5 syllables)

God's promise is remembered (7 syllables)

glorious rainbow (5 syllables)

 

The Tree of Life (Gen 3:22)

Partake of The Word (5)

The Tree of Life, Jesus Christ (7)

And live forever (5)

 

I’ll give everyone a moment to come up with a haiku and when you have one ready that you are willing to read out, put your hand up. Let me know. Here is one that Sarah-Grace and Susan shared with me earlier this week that I think sums up haikus quite nicely.

 

Haikus are easy
but sometimes they don’t make sense
Refrigerator

 

Davis writes that, “like a haiku, [Proverbs] does not require a lot of scholarly explanation.” She states, “Biblical proverbs represent language in its most condensed form. Their stock characters are the wise and the foolish, those who yield to wickedness and those who practice righteousness.”

 

read more:  http://sheepspeaks.blogspot.ca/2012/11/proverbs-313-18-advertising-haikus-for.html