Worship This Week
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Worship This Week
Sunday, October 22, 2016
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
All of us have probably walked into traps that someone set for us, trying to make us say or do something that would prove us to be wrong or right about something. It's not a pleasant experience. Jesus faced that kind of thing many times This week's text from Matthew's Gospel sets us down in the middle of one of those times. The issue, at least the obvious one, was taxes--should faithful people pay them even though they supported a regime that oppressed them? Jesus understood their motives and offered his well-known response: Give the Emperor what is his, and give God what is God's. That sounds easy enough, but we know with Jesus the easy route is rarely the one we follow. So we'll try to figure out what is God's in a sermon called, appropriately enough, I hope, "So What Is God's?" from Matthew 22:15-22
Remember that we will convene a congregational meeting at the conclusion of the service. Margaret Ann Morgan, Ray Salter, and Whitney Rawlings will be nominated for terms on the Session beginning in 2018 and running through 2020. This week's congregational meeting will be for the purpose of election.
I look forward to worshiping with you this week.
Bob Phelps, Pastor
J J White Memorial Presbyterian Church
110 Third Street
McComb, MS 39648
church phone 601.684.4189
Worship This Week
Sunday, October 22, 2016
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
All of us have probably walked into traps that someone set for us, trying to make us say or do something that would prove us to be wrong or right about something. It's not a pleasant experience. Jesus faced that kind of thing many times This week's text from Matthew's Gospel sets us down in the middle of one of those times. The issue, at least the obvious one, was taxes--should faithful people pay them even though they supported a regime that oppressed them? Jesus understood their motives and offered his well-known response: Give the Emperor what is his, and give God what is God's. That sounds easy enough, but we know with Jesus the easy route is rarely the one we follow. So we'll try to figure out what is God's in a sermon called, appropriately enough, I hope, "So What Is God's?" from Matthew 22:15-22
Remember that we will convene a congregational meeting at the conclusion of the service. Margaret Ann Morgan, Ray Salter, and Whitney Rawlings will be nominated for terms on the Session beginning in 2018 and running through 2020. This week's congregational meeting will be for the purpose of election.
I look forward to worshiping with you this week.
Bob Phelps, Pastor
J J White Memorial Presbyterian Church
110 Third Street
McComb, MS 39648
church phone 601.684.4189
