Well, this week certainly raced by in a flash, and as a result, I am again late in getting my blog updated. On Monday, we traveled to Falls City, NE to try and see the Solar Eclipse. Unfortunately, the weather was against us and the cloud cover prevented us from seeing more than a few glimpses of the actual eclipse. What little we were able to experience though was amazing and well worth the trip. After this experience, I'm convinced that if I am at all able, we'll travel and take in the next eclipse in 2024.
The rest of this week was filled with moving the final items out of the Baptist Church building. As of today, everything is out of the building and this morning Bill Hungate signed the paperwork to transfer the buildings ownership. So, the final pieces of the puzzle are quickly falling into place and the merger will soon be complete.
This last week's sermon was over Matthew 15:10-28 with supporting Scripture taken from Mark 7:24-30. It's the story of the Canaanite Woman and whereas this scripture is generally used to preach about her 'faith', I took a different angle and discussed her 'approach' to Jesus. It's an interesting and hopefully revealing twist and though I need to run (with everything else going on I'm sorely behind on sermon prep for this weekend) and don't have time to elaborate the video is linked below. Please take a look and listen, it's not a long sermon at only about nineteen minutes long.
I hope that this blog post finds you all well and blessed!
Be a blessing to someone today!
In His Grace,
Roy
Matthew 15:10-28 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
10 Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, “Listen and understand: 11 it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.” 12 Then the disciples approached and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard what you said?” 13 He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 14 Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind.[a] And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.” 15 But Peter said to him, “Explain this parable to us.” 16 Then he said, “Are you also still without understanding? 17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer? 18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. 19 For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. 20 These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.”
21 Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. 22 Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.” 23 But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, “Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us.” 24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” 25 But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” 26 He answered, “It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.” 27 She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.” 28 Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed instantly.
Footnotes:
a) Matthew 15:14 Other ancient authorities lack of the blind
Mark 7:24-30 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith
24 From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre.[a] He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, 25 but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. 26 Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 27 He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.” 28 But she answered him, “Sir,[b] even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” 29 Then he said to her, “For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.” 30 So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
Footnotes:
a) Mark 7:24 Other ancient authorities add and Sidon
b) Mark 7:28 Or Lord; other ancient authorities prefix Yes
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