We're almost there

We're still working on the repairs since the site suffered the dammage it did recently. We're almost done.

Don't forget to check out what is happening this week at the corps at the Nipawin Salvation Army Website. You can reach it through our main page: http://www.sheepspeak.com/

EDS Show this weekend at Candle Lake - be sure join us after church in Nipawin!

Holy Pentecost and Happy Mothers' Day

Susan's preaching on Romans 13 this weekend - stay tuned!

Romans 10:2-3

Romans 10:2-3: “For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.”
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These people then, though they are zealous for God, try to develop their own righteousness and in the process reject Jesus as God and therefore cannot know God and, as a result, they do not win the prize. They reject Christ, they reject God, and they reject His righteousness.
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It seems like (if anyone remembers) the classic story, ‘Alice through the Looking Glass.’ At a point in that story there are two groups of people: those who are determined to reach a goal (like Israel here in our story) and those who are not. Now those who are most determined to reach the goal walk towards the mirror where it is reflected but – of course – they never reach it because its not there – only the reflection is there. The ones, however, who turn (repent) and walk in the opposite direction are the one’s who in the end actually did find it.
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It’s like us as we are looking a mirror. We can never grab a reflection in the mirror no matter how hard we try because it is not a real item: it is just a reflection. This is like the Law was to Israel – you see, the Law is a reflection of God. It is not God and as long as one is just reaching for His reflection (The Law), one can never grasp God. As long as one is just reaching for His reflection rather than for Jesus himself - even though He is standing right beside you – as long as you are just reaching for his reflection you will never reach him.
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Now are there anyways that we can be tempted to do this? Are there ways in our own lives when we are tempted to ignore God and try to grasp an image, a rule maybe, or a ritual instead? Are there times when we, like first century Israel, might rely on our own righteousness and in the process actually turn our backs on God?
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read the whole sermon on-line: http://sheepspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/05/romans-930-104-law-through-looking.html

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In my in-box...

Sent: May 7, 2008 3:51 PM
To: Michael Ramsay
Subject: RE: renewal of subscription (Expository Times)


Hello. Attached is the invoice requested for the term July 2008-June 2009. Let me know if you need further assistance.

Please exuse my note: I have to say that the Salvation Army is my UTMOST favorite organization ever since I read the book about how it started. I am always surprised as to how many ways they help people. Blessings to you and your staff!

Kind regards,

Who Is My Neighbour?

Read this issue of
INTERPRETATION: A JOURNAL OF BIBLE AND THEOLOGY (April 2008).

www.interpretation.org


It has some great articles. Among the others, I recommend 'Who is my Neighbour?' by Naim Ateek. He provides, in this context, a look at the current Isreali-Palestian conflict. Naim Ateek is Director of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Centre in Jerusalem and he is a Palestinian Christian.

I encourage you to read this article and this whole issue for that matter.

comments: blog@sheepspeak.com

I don't get it.

1) There is a movement to remove Gideon Bibles from places...

2) a Star rating system has appeared on my blog - please don't use it; I am trying to remove it. If anyone knows how to remove it, let me know: blog@sheepspeak.com

AA

I was speaking to a friend from AA/NA today.

He reported that he was called to do an intervention the other day.

The end result was that the person repented and gave their life to the Lord.

Hallelujah. Amen.

Sunday's Sermon: Romans 9:30-10:4

The Law through the Looking Glass: http://sheepspeaks.blogspot.com/

Comments are welcome - of course - at blog@sheepspeak.com

Revolution Christian Style

from Aaron at http://www.armybarmy.com/ (posted Friday, May 02, 2008)

Violence and Resistance...People clearly find non-violent Christian revolution difficult to grasp. No wonder, we are so conditioned into violence as a default response. But those who at least in their words and arguments have come to a place of decrying violence then sometimes also have a hard time incorporating a notion of aggressive resistance. Again, small wonder, as most pacifism is characterized as passive and non-involved.

The danger here is a portrayal of Jesus as simply a victim of his fate, rather than as a resister of evil, a conqueror over death, and an instigator of societal revolution. Jesus absolutely took the way of vulnerability, suffering, solidarity and crucifixion. He forsook the way of earthly power, and discipled his followers into that Way as well. But his Way was not a simple acceptance and acquiescence to the powers that be. It was an informed, intentional, and inspired attack on the Kingdom of Satan, the Kingdom of Death.

Therefore, the language of resistance, of revolution, of overcoming is utterly appropriate. To avoid that language, in fact, would be quite wrong. We need to be clear on the WAY that Jesus resisted and overcame, and that we must NEVER grasp after worldly power or violence, but we must also be clear that there is nothing particularly "soft" about Jesus. He was God and Man with the hard edges left on, confrontational to the powers and tender to the afflicted.

See James Douglass' take: "Jesus resisted evil with an intensity which revealed the uselessness and irrelevance of violence, and this resistance of love constitutes the Christian revolution."

Viva la Revolution of love. Lets Fight.Grace,Aaron

Related: 2007 Nipawin Rememberance Day Address by TSA Captain: http://sheepspeaks.blogspot.com/2007/11/greater-love-has-no-man-than-to-lay.html

Sacrifice Keeps Hope Alive from The Nipawin Journal : http://www.sheepspeak.com/sasknews.htm#Hope


Child Poverty in Canada

More from Aaron at http://www.armybarmy.com/

Child Poverty In Canada..Here are the Canadian stats for child poverty - nearly 900,000 children considered to be living in poverty in our wealthy nation.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080501/national/%20census_child_poverty

Grace,Aaron

Related, from The Nipawin Journal:
As a Christian, do I have a responsibility to take care of the poor?
http://www.sheepspeak.com/sasknews.htm#poor