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BIBLE SCHOOL STARTED JULY 14TH.
Happy Belated Birthday to Rhonda Wall.
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MONDAY, JULY 15TH—
Office is closed today.
Happy Anniversary, Larry and Donna Sheeder.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 17TH —
5:30 P.M. — SMALL GROUP MEETING
IN CASEY U.M.C.
Happy Birthday, Bob Sullins.
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THURSDAY, JULY 18TH —
• • ADAIR U.M.C. BIBLE SCHOOL PROGRAM
THURSDAY EVENING - AT 6:30 P.M.
• • PROGRAM NIGHT FOR PARENTS IN
CASEY U.M.C. AT 8:30 P.M.
FRIDAY, JULY 19TH —
Happy Birthday, Denae Elgin
Happy Birthday, Dale Tracy
Happy Birthday, Neil Lundy
Happy birthday, Aimee Noland
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SATURDAY, JULY 20TH —
• • • ADAIR CHUCK WAGON DAYS • • •
AT ADAIR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
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Happy birthday, Damian Peterson
Happy Birthday, Joe Chrostek
Happy Anniversary, Jim and Jyl Wightman
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SUNDAY, JULY 21ST —
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
COLOR:GREEN
SCRIPTURE READINGS
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AMOS 8:1-12
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Amos proclaims the Lord's judgment: "The
end has come for Israel."
• trying to rush Sabbath to return to selling,
• false weights,
• price gouging,
• keeping the poor in virtual slavery, and
• selling the lowest quality goods to the
poor.
YOU WHO GIVE LITTLE AND TAKE MUCH
1 My Master God showed me this vision: A
bowl of fresh fruit.
2 He said, "What do you see, Amos?" I said,
"A bowl of fresh, ripe fruit."
God said, "Right. So, I'm calling it quits with
my people Israel. I'm no longer acting as if
everything is just fine."
3 "The royal singers will wail when it happens."
My Master God said so.
"Corpses will be strewn here, there, and
everywhere.
Hush!"
4-6 Listen to this, you who walk all over the
weak,
you who treat poor people as less than
nothing,
Who say, "When's my next paycheck coming
so I can go out and live it up?
How long till the weekend
when I can go out and have a good time?"
Who give little and take much,
and never do an honest day's work.
You exploit the poor, using them—
and then, when they're used up, you discard
them.
7-8 God swears against the arrogance of Jacob:
"I'm keeping track of their every last sin."
God's oath will shake earth's foundations,
dissolve the whole world into tears.
God's oath will sweep in like a river that rises,
flooding houses and lands,
And then recedes,
leaving behind a sea of mud.
9-10 "On Judgment Day, watch out!"
These are the words of God, my Master.
"I'll turn off the sun at noon.
In the middle of the day the earth will go black.
and make every song you sing a dirge.
Everyone will walk around in rags,
Think of the worst that could happen
—your only son, say, murdered.
That's a hint of Judgment Day
—that and much more.
11-12 "Oh yes, Judgment Day is coming!"
These are the words of my Master God.
"I'll send a famine through the whole country.
It won't be food or water that's lacking, but
my Word.
People will drift from one end of the country to
the other,
roam to the north, wander to the east.
They'll go anywhere, listen to anyone,
hoping to hear God's Word—but they won't
hear it.
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PSALM 52 or PSALM 82 (UMH 804)
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
PSALM 52
A PSALM OF DAVID,
When Doeg the Edomite Reported to Saul,
"David's at Ahimelech's House"
1-4 Why do you brag of evil, "Big Man"?
God's mercy carries the day.
You scheme catastrophe;
your tongue cuts razor-sharp,
artisan in lies.
You love evil more than good,
you call black white.
You love malicious gossip,
you foul-mouth.
5 God will tear you limb from limb,
sweep you up and throw you out,
Pull you up by the roots
from the land of life.
6-7 Good people will watch and
worship. They'll laugh in relief:
"Big Man bet on the wrong horse,
trusted in big money,
made his living from catastrophe."
8 And I'm an olive tree,
growing green in God's house.
I trusted in the generous mercy
of God then and now.
9 I thank you always
that you went into action.
And I'll stay right here,
your good name my hope,
in company with your faithful friends.
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PSALM 82
PSALM OF ASAPH
It is recognized that Asaph was David's music
director, and probably wrote much original, now
lost, music for David's Psalms, but much more
importantly, he wrote twelve Psalms.
from David's reign, through Solomon's to
Rehoboam's. We know he lived in Jerusalem.
Asaph was a young priest from the tribe of Levi,
when David brought the Ark of the Covenant up
to Jerusalem in about 1000 to 995 BC. Asaph
was so talented that David put him in charge of
music probably when he was in his twenties.
Asaph kept that position for about forty years.
He heard David tell the people and elders of
Israel that his son Solomon was the answer to
God's promise of a son who would build a
kingdom that would last forever. That did not
happen. After Solomon's death, Asaph, now a
very old man, saw David's kingdom torn in two,
and the invasion of the Egyptians.
1 God calls the judges into his courtroom, he
puts all the judges in the dock.
2-4 "Enough! You've corrupted justice long enough,
you've let the wicked get away with murder.
You're here to defend the defenseless,
to make sure that underdogs get a fair break;
Your job is to stand up for the powerless,
and prosecute all those who exploit them."
5 Ignorant judges! Head-in-the-sand judges!
They haven't a clue to what's going on.
And now everything's falling apart,
the world's coming unglued.
6-7 "I commissioned you judges, each one of
you,
deputies of the High God,
But you've betrayed your commission
and now you're stripped of your rank,
busted."
8 O God, give them their just deserts!
You've got the whole world in your hands!
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COLOSSIANS 1:15-28
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Paul offers a Christology that reflects the
depth of growth in the knowledge of God he
has previously prayed for the Christians in
the region of Colossae. Jesus is the image
of the invisible God, the source and destiny
of creation itself, head of the church, and
agent of reconciliation of all things.
CHRIST HOLDS IT ALL TOGETHER
15-18 We look at this Son and see the God who
cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see
God's original purpose in everything created.
For everything, absolutely everything, above
and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank
after rank of angels—everything got started in
him and finds its purpose in him. He was there
before any of it came into existence and holds
it all together right up to this moment. And
when it comes to the church, he organizes and
holds it together, like a head does a body.
18-20 He was supreme in the beginning and —
leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme
in the end. From beginning to end he's there,
towering far above everything, everyone. So
spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of
God finds its proper place in him without
crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and
dislocated pieces of the universe—people and
things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed
and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because
of his death, his blood that poured down from
the cross.
21-23 You yourselves are a case study of what
he does. At one time you all had your backs
turned to God, thinking rebellious thoughts of
him, giving him trouble every chance you got.
But now, by giving himself completely at the
Cross, actually dying for you, Christ brought you
over to God's side and put your lives together,
whole and holy in his presence. You don't walk
away from a gift like that! You stay grounded
and steady in that bond of trust, constantly
tuned in to the Message, careful not to be
distracted or diverted. There is no other
Message—just this one. Every creature under
heaven gets this same Message. I, Paul, am a
messenger of this Message.
me sitting here in this jail and not you. There's
a lot of suffering to be entered into in this world
—the kind of suffering Christ takes on. I welcome
the chance to take my share in the church's part
of that suffering. When I became a servant in this
church, I experienced this suffering as a sheer gift,
God's way of helping me serve you, laying out the
whole truth.
26-29 This mystery has been kept in the dark for a
long time, but now it's out in the open. God
wanted everyone, not just Jews, to know this rich
and glorious secret inside and out, regardless of
their background, regardless of their religious
standing. The mystery in a nutshell is just this:
Christ is in you, so therefore you can look forward
to sharing in God's glory. It's that simple. That is
the substance of our Message. We preach Christ,
warning people not to add to the Message. We
teach in a spirit of profound common sense so
that we can bring each person to maturity. To be
mature is to be basic. Christ! No more, no less.
That's what I'm working so hard at day after day,
year after year, doing my best with the energy
God so generously gives me.
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LUKE 10:38-42
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
MARY AND MARTHA
We are offered the stark contrast between Mary
and Martha, one who puts all aside to listen to
Jesus and the other who worries herself to
distraction with trying to make dinner for the
three of them.
38-40 As they continued their travel, Jesus
entered a village. A woman by the name of
Martha welcomed him and made him feel quite
at home. She had a sister, Mary, who sat before
the Master, hanging on every word he said. But
Martha was pulled away by all she had to do in
the kitchen. Later, she stepped in, interrupting
them. "Master, don't you care that my sister has
abandoned the kitchen to me? Tell her to lend
me a hand."
you're fussing far too much and getting yourself
worked up over nothing. One thing only is
essential, and Mary has chosen it—it's the main
course, and won't be taken from her.")
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Happy Birthday, Mildred Sorber
Happy birthday, Red Fisher
Happy Anniversary,
Brick and Carol Ann Schnobrich
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• 1861 - The first major battle of the U.S. Civil War
began. It was the Battle of Bull Run at Manassas
Junction, VA. The Confederates won the battle.
• 1930 - The Veterans’ Administration of the
United States was established.
• 1944 - American forces landed on Guam during
World War II.
• 1954 - The Geneva Conference partitioned
Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
• 1980 - Draft registration began in the United
States for 19 and 20-year-old men.
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MONDAY, JULY 22ND —
Happy Birthday, Allison Moore
Happy Birthday, Tom Noland
Happy anniversary, Darryl and Allye Peterson
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• 1376 - The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin
leading rats out of town is said to have occurred
on this date.
• 1587 - A second English colony was established
on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. The colony
vanished under very mysterious circumstances.
• 1937 - The U.S. Senate rejected President
Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the
Supreme Court.
• 1943 - American forces led by Gen. George S.
Patton captured Palermo, Sicily.
• 1975 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee had
his U.S. citizenship restored by U.S. Congress.
• 2009 - The longest total solar eclipse of the
21st century, lasting up to 6 minutes and 38.8
seconds, occurred over parts of Asia and the
Pacific Ocean.
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TUESDAY, JULY 23RD —
• 1827 - The first public swimming school in the
U.S. opened in Boston, MA.
• 1904 - The ice cream cone was invented by
Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, MO.
• 1938 - The first federal game preserve was
approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The area was 2,000 acres in Utah.
• 1945 - The first passenger train observation car
was placed in service by the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railroad.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 24TH —
Small Group meets in Casey U.M.C. at 5:30 P.M.
• 1866 - Tennessee became the first state to be
readmitted to the Union after the U.S. Civil War.
• 1929 - U.S. President Hoover proclaimed the
Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an
instrument of foreign policy.
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THURSDAY, JULY 25TH —
Happy Birthday, Mary Kilcoin
Happy Birthday Darla Sheeder
Happy Birthday, Jacob Reed
Happy Birthday, Joshua Anderson
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• 0326 - Constantine refused to carry out the
traditional pagan sacrifices.
• 1805 - Aaron Burr visited New Orleans with
plans to establish a new country, with New
Orleans as the capital city.
• 1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of
the Army. He was the first American officer to
hold the rank.
• 1868 - The U.S. Congress passed an act
creating the Wyoming Territory.
• 1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing
commonwealth of the U.S.
• 1994 - Israel and Jordan formally ended the
state of war that had existed between them
since 1948.
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FRIDAY, JULY 26TH —
Happy Birthday, Chelsi Rochholz
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• 1775 - A postal system was established by the
2nd Continental Congress of the United States.
First Postmaster General was Benjamin Franklin.
• 1788 - New York became the 11th state to ratify
the U.S. Constitution.
• 1908 - U.S. Attorney General Charles J.
Bonaparte issued an order that created an
investigative agency that was a forerunner
of the FBI.
• 1947 - U.S. President Truman signed The
National Security Act. The act created the
National Security Council, the Department of
Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency and the
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
• 1948 - U.S. President Truman signed executive
orders that prohibited discrimination in the U.S.
armed forces and federal employment.
• 1953 - Fidel Castro began his revolt against
Fulgencio Batista with an unsuccessful attack
on an army barracks in eastern Cuba. Castro
eventually ousted Batista six years later.
• 1998 - AT&T and British Telecommunications
PLC announced they were forming a joint
venture to combine international operations and
develop a new Internet system.
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SATURDAY, JULY 27TH —
• FOOD PANTRY OPEN AT CASEY U.M.C.
FROM 9 A.M. TO 11 A.M. —
• 1663 - The British Parliament passed a second
Navigation Act, which required all goods bound
for the colonies be sent in British ships from
British ports.
• 1775 - Benjamin Rush began his service as the
first Surgeon General of the Continental Army.
• 1804 - The 12th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution was ratified. With the amendment
Electors were directed to vote for a President
and for a Vice-President rather than for two
choices for President.
• 1866 - Cyrus Field successfully completed the
Atlantic Cable. It was an underwater telegraph
from North America to Europe.
• 1944 - U.S. troops completed the liberation of
Guam.
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FUTURE FOCUS
SUNDAY, JULY 28TH —
Loose Change offering for
IMAGINE NO MALARIA — A UMCOR PROGRAM.
our church life this week. The children are
our most valuable assets. Their care and
enlightenment are two of our most important
industries.
God Bless and Keep You,
Donna K
