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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5TH —
OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 TO NOON
• ADAIR U.M.W. RETREAT AT ANITA
STATE PARK
THURSDAY, AUGUST 7TH —
OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 TO NOON.
PASTOR MELODEE ON VACATION
FROM 7TH THRU 8TH.
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AC FOOD PANTRY OPEN 9 TO 11 A.M.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 9TH —
11TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
COLOR: GREEN
Happy Birthday Dorothy Oaks!
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SCRIPTURE READINGS ———————————————————
2 SAMUEL 18:5-15, 31-33
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
David's son Absalom had begun a civil
war against his father. Still, David
ordered his army to “deal gently” with
him. When Absalom was found stuck
in a tree, he was executed and brought
to David. David wept bitterly.
5 Then the king ordered Joab and
Abishai and Ittai, “Deal gently for my
sake with the young man Absalom.”
The whole army heard what the king
commanded the three captains
regarding Absalom.
6-8 The army took the field to meet
Israel. It turned out that the battle was
joined in the Forest of Ephraim. The
army of Israel was beaten badly there
that day by David’s men, a terrific
slaughter—twenty thousand men! There
was fighting helter-skelter all over the
place—the forest took more lives that
day than the sword!
9-10 Absalom ran into David’s men, but
was out in front of them riding his mule,
when the mule ran under the branches of
a huge oak tree. Absalom’s head was
caught in the oak and he was left
dangling between heaven and earth, the
mule running right out from under him.
to Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging
from an oak tree!”
11 Joab said to the man who told him, “If
you saw him, why didn’t you kill him then
and there? I’d have rewarded you with
ten pieces of silver and a fancy belt.”
12-13 The man told Joab, “Even if I’d had
a chance at a thousand pieces of silver, I
wouldn’t have laid a hand on the king’s
son. We all heard the king command you
and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake,
protect the young man Absalom.’ Why,
I’d be risking my life, for nothing is
hidden from the king. And you would
have just stood there!”
14-15 Joab said, “I can’t waste my time
with you.” He then grabbed three knives
and stabbed Absalom in the heart while
he was still alive in the tree; by then
Absalom was surrounded by ten of
Joab’s armor bearers; they hacked
away at him and killed him.
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PSALM 130 (UMH 848)
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
A response to the story of David's deep
grief over Absalom.
A psalm often used at funerals.
A PILGRIM SONG
1-2 Help, God—the bottom has fallen out
of my life!
Master, hear my cry for help!
Listen hard! Open your ears!
Listen to my cries for mercy.
3-4 If you, God, kept records on wrong
doings,
who would stand a chance?
As it turns out, forgiveness is your habit,
and that’s why you’re worshiped.
5-6 I pray to God—my life a prayer—
and wait for what he’ll say and do.
My life’s on the line before God, my Lord,
waiting and watching till morning,
waiting and watching till morning.
7-8 O Israel, wait and watch for God—
with God’s arrival comes love,
with God’s arrival comes generous
redemption.
No doubt about it—he’ll redeem Israel,
buy back Israel from captivity to sin.
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EPHESIANS 4:25-5:2
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Paul encourages congregations to give
up practices that might lead to broken
relationships with God and others, and
engage in practices that will build up
community.
25 What this adds up to, then, is this: no
more lies, no more pretense. Tell your
neighbor the truth. In Christ’s body
we’re all connected to each other, after
all. When you lie to others, you end up
lying to yourself.
26-27 Go ahead and be angry. You do
well to be angry—but don’t use your
anger as fuel for revenge. And don’t
stay angry. Don’t go to bed angry. Don’t
give the Devil that kind of foothold in
your life.
28 Did you use to make ends meet by
stealing? Well, no more! Get an honest
job so that you can help others who can’t
work.
foul or dirty come out of your mouth.
Say only what helps, each word a gift.
30 Don’t grieve God. Don’t break his
heart. His Holy Spirit, moving and
breathing in you, is the most intimate
part of your life, making you fit for
himself. Don’t take such a gift for granted.
31-32 Make a clean break with all cutting,
backbiting, profane talk. Be gentle with
one another, sensitive. Forgive one
another as quickly and thoroughly as
God in Christ forgave you.
WAKE UP FROM YOUR SLEEP
5 1-2 Watch what God does, and then
you do it, like children who learn proper
behavior from their parents. Mostly what
God does is love you. Keep company
with him and learn a life of love.
Observe how Christ loved us. His love
was not cautious but extravagant. He
didn’t love in order to get something
from us but to give everything of
himself to us. Love like that.
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JOHN 6:35-38, 41-51
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Jesus says the Father, not his own
teaching, draws people to the true bread
that is coming down from heaven."
Those who “eat of him” are receiving
eternal life.
JOHN 6:35-38
The person who aligns with me hungers
no more and thirsts no more, ever. I have
told you this explicitly because even
though you have seen me in action, you
don’t really believe me. Every person the
Father gives me eventually comes
running to me. And once that person is
with me, I hold on and don’t let go. I
came down from heaven not to follow
my own whim but to accomplish the
will of the One who sent me.
JOHN 6:41-51
41-42 At this, because he said, “I am the
Bread that came down from heaven,” the
Jews started arguing over him: “Isn’t this
the son of Joseph? Don’t we know his
father? Don’t we know his mother? How
can he now say, ‘I came down out of
heaven’ and expect anyone to believe
him?”
43-46 Jesus said, “Don’t bicker among
yourselves over me. You’re not in charge
here. The Father who sent me is in
charge. He draws people to me—that’s
the only way you’ll ever come. Only then
do I do my work, putting people together,
setting them on their feet, ready for the
End. This is what the prophets meant
when they wrote, ‘And then they will all
be personally taught by God.’ Anyone
who has spent any time at all listening to
the Father, really listening and therefore
learning, comes to me to be taught
personally—to see it with his own eyes,
hear it with his own ears, from me, since
I have it firsthand from the Father. No
one has seen the Father except the One
who has his Being alongside the Father
—and you can see me.
47-51 “I’m telling you the most solemn
and sober truth now: Whoever believes
in me has real life, eternal life. I am the
Bread of Life. Your ancestors ate the
manna bread in the desert and died. But
now here is Bread that truly comes down
out of heaven. Anyone eating this Bread
will not die, ever. I am the Bread—living
Bread!—who came down out of heaven.
Anyone who eats this Bread will live—
and forever! The Bread that I present to
the world so that it can eat and live is
myself, this flesh-and-blood self.”
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• 1790 - The Columbia returned to
Boston Harbor after a three-year voyage.
It was the first ship to carry the
American flag around the world.
• 1842 - The U.S. and Canada signed the
Webster-Ashburton Treaty, which solved
a border dispute.
• 1848 - Martin Van Buren Is nominated
for president by the Free-Soil Party in
Buffalo, New York.
• 1936 - Jesse Owens won his fourth
gold medal at the Berlin Olympics. He
was the first American to win four
medals in one Olympics.
• 1944 - The Forest Service and Wartime
Advertising Council first created
"Smokey the Bear."
• 1956 - The first statewide, and state
supported educational television net-
work went on the air in Alabama.
• 1974 - U.S. President Richard Nixon
formally resigned. Gerald R. Ford took
his place, and became 38th president of
the United States.
• 1975 - The New Orleans Superdome
officially opened when the Saints played
the Houston Oilers in exhibition football.
The new Superdome cost $163 million.
• 1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin
fired Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin
and his entire cabinet for the fourth time
in 17 months.
• 2004 - Trump Hotel and Casion Resorts
announced plans to file for Chapter 11
bankruptcy.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 10TH —
Happy Anniversary —
Sam and Sherry Carney!
OFFICE IS CLOSED TODAY.
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• 1821 - Missouri became the 24th state
to join the Union.
• 1846 - The Smithsonian Institution was
chartered by the U.S. Congress. Lovingly
called the "Nation's Attic", it was made
possible by $500,000 given by scientist
Joseph Smithson.
• 1921 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was
stricken with polio.
• 1945 - The day after the atomic
bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced
they would surrender.
• 1954 - Construction began on the St.
Lawrence Seaway.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 11TH —
OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 TO NOON.
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• 1909 - The American ship Arapahoe
became the first to ever use the SOS
distress signal off the coast of Cape
Hatteras, North Carolina.
• 1941 - The Atlantic Charter was signed
by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt
and British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill. It defined the Allied goals for
a post-war world.
• 1984 - Carl Lewis won his fourth gold
medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
• 1994 - The Tenth International
Conference on AIDS ended in Japan.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12TH —
Happy Anniversary —
Doug and Suzie Morgan!
OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 TO NOON.
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• 1865 - Disinfectant was used for the
first time during surgery by Dr. Joseph
Lister.
• 1898 - The Spanish-American War was
ended with the signing of the peace
protocol. The U.S. acquired Guam,
Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Hawaii
was annexed.
• 1981 - IBM unveiled its first PC.
• 1998 - Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25
billion as restitution to World War II
Holocaust victims.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 13TH —
OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 TO NOON.
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• 1521 - Present day Mexico City was
captured by Spanish conqueror
Hernando Cortez from the Aztec Indians.
• 1784 - The United States Legislature
met for the final time in Annapolis, MD.
• 1846 - The American Flag was raised
for the very first time in Los Angeles,
California.
• 1889 - A patent for a coin-operated
telephone was issued to William Gray.
• 1932 - Adolf Hitler refused to take the
post of vice-chancellor of Germany. He
said he was going to hold out "for all or
nothing."
• 1961 - Berlin was divided by a barbed
wire fence to halt the flight of refugees.
Two days later work on the Berlin Wall
began.
• 1994 - It was reported that aspirin not
only helps reduce risk of heart disease,
but also helps prevent colon cancer.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14TH —
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• 1248 - The rebuilding of the Cologne
Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, began
after it was destroyed by fire.
• 1848 - The Oregon Territory was
established.
• 1880 - Cologne Cathedral in Cologne,
Germany was completed after 632 years
of rebuilding.
• 1896 - Gold was discovered in Yukon
Territory of Canada. Within the next year
more than 30,000 people rushed to the
area to look for gold.
• 1919 - About 1 million tons of ice and
rock broke off of a glacier near Mont
Blanc, France. Nine people were killed
in the incident.
• 1935 - U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signed the Social Security
Act into law. The act created pension
plans and unemployment insurance for
the elderly.
• 1941 - The U.S. Congress appropriated
the funds to construct the Pentagon
(approximately $83 million). The
building was the new home of the U.S.
War Department.
• 1945 - It was announced by U.S.
President Truman that Japan had
surrendered unconditionally. The
surrender ended World War II.
• 1992 - The U.S. announced emergency
airlifts of food to Somalia would begin.
The action was taken to stop mass
deaths due to starvation.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15TH —
Happy Birthday Brody Moore!
Happy Birthday Tyler Carney!
Happy Anniversary —
Gary and Cindy Lundy!
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• 1057 - Macbeth, King of Scotland, was
killed by the son of King Duncan of
Scotland.
• 1914 - The Panama Canal was officially
opened to commercial traffic as an
American ship sailed from the Atlantic
to the Pacific Ocean.
• 1935 - Will Rogers and Wiley Post were
killed in an airplane crash in near Point
Barrow, Alaska.
• 1944 - The Allied forces of World War II
landed in southern France.
• 1945 - The Allies proclaimed V-J Day
one day after Japan agreed to surrender
unconditionally.
• 1947 - India became independent from
England and was divided into the two
countries of India and Pakistan. India
had been under British about 200 years.
• 1961 - East German workers began
construction of the Berlin Wall.
• 1994 - The U.S. Social Security
Administration became an independent
government agency.
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Our hopes and prayers go with the many
displaced people during the wild fires in
California.
our nations firefighters who are trying to
find a way to end this terrible massive
destruction.
Thank you for your kind contributions
of love and loyalty this week. You have
made an enormous difference and we
are indeed indebted to you!
God Bless and Keep You,
Donna
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