Earthly rulers

Posted on December 12, 2009
Filed under Getting ready for Sunday, Worship | by Don Leave a Comment

To members and friends of St. James UCC…
…a few quick notes about tomorrow

After watching BILL MOYERS JOURNAL last night… especially his conversation with HOWARD ZINN (author of A People’s History of the United States) that included some clips from THE PEOPLE SPEAK program that will be featured on the History Channel tomorrow night (check out for time)… all of it dealing with the kind of community organizing that has gone on in the past and is still going on today… and is all VERY RELEVANT for all we continue to deal with as a faith community… we need to hear what a woman named GENORA DOLLINGER said many years ago:

“Don’t depend on our leaders to do what needs to be done….”

That’s a significant quote for our reflections tomorrow that will grow out of the narrative in LUKE 3: 1-18 around the story of John the Baptist’s preaching that led some of the people to ask the question:

What do we need to be doing?

We’ll be dealing with the same question tomorrow… and many of the contexts of life we are dealing with at this moment make some words we sang last Sunday all too true:

O God of earth and altar, bow down and hear our cry;
Our earthly rulers falter, our people drift and die;
The walls of gold entomb us, the swords of scorn divide;
Take not your thunder from us, but take away our pride.

So if you have time… read the Luke narrative… but, but all means, try to make it for worship tomorrow!

Hope to see you…

don

p.s. The children are meeting at 10:15 to do some practicing for the following Sunday… and we hope to begin doing some decorating around the church, so feel free to come earlier than 11:00 and we can get more accomplished . . .

p.p.s. And if you can’t make it, do try to see THE PEOPLE SPEAK on the History Channel tomorrow nite!

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