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Easter 2008

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Holy Week Schedule

Holy Week Schedule:

Maundy Thursday, March 20 - Holy Communion Worship Service 7:00 PM

Good Friday, March 21 - Worship Services noon and 7:00 PM.

Resurrection Sunday, March 23 - Sunrise Service 6:30 AM, Morning Worship 8:30 AM and 11:00 AM, Sunday School 9:40 AM.

Monday, March 24 - Church office closed.

Spirituality Centers will be available for individual reflection throughout Holy Week.

Our miracle's birth-clark andrew

Sharon Cosentino's new grandson, Clark Andrew was born yesterday in Los Angeles. I am happy to share this picture of Jean and Caroll Clark's great-grandson with his mother Jacey's permission

Holy Week is coming

It is hard to believe I started blogging as a way to preserve Holy Week Spirituality Centers in picture and text. Here are a few examples (and here) from 2006 and last year. (Here is another)

We will have a wonderful week beginning next Sunday, March 16 at Northminster (1100 E. Nine Mile Rd, pensacola). Write me at npcrev@bellsouth.net for more information.

William F. Buckley

There is a particularly good, long, and informative obituary of Mr. Buckley in today's NYT.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/business/media/28buckley.html?ref=us

I did not always agree with Mr. Buckley, but I thoroughly enjoyed his columns in our local PNJ, and a variety of papers and magazines I read over the years. He knew how to disagree without being disagreeable. He lifted conservatism into a finely honed arguement, but it was an arguement of ideas, not personalities.

His last presentation of the TV show Firing Line was taped (or broadcast live?) from the campus of Ole Miss, when I lived there in Oxford, MS. I regret not going to the show to see that bit of history and to see Mr. Buckley in person.

Buckley's novels were excellent. I think I will look on my shelves for one or more of them to reread it in his memory. His son, Christopher, is the funniest political novelist writing today.

We need more men like Buckley. All of our political discourse shoudl be about ideas, not personalities.

Link to Living Waters

The Living Waters of the World site for the synod mission project. Please click there and explore.

Northminster Relay for Life

On May 2-3 Northminster will participate in the Relay for Life at Tate High School.

Click the link below to go to the American Cancer Society and give -- with credit going to Northminster's Relay total. Or click just to register.

Click here to register with Northminster's team.

The Ann Weems Quotation

Ann Weems, in her wonderful book “Kneeling in Jerusalem” says:

Going through Lent
is a listening.
When we listen
to the word,
we hear
where we are so
blatantly
unliving.

If we listen to the word,
and hallow it
into our lives,
we hear
how we can so
abundantly
live again.