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SATURDAY, AUGUST 24TH —
A-C FOOD PANTRY IS OPEN IN CASEY UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH TODAY - FROM 9 A.M. TO
11 A.M.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 25TH —
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
COLOR: GREEN
SCRIPTURE READINGS
Ordinary Time continues
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JEREMIAH 1:4-10
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Jeremiah recounts the experience of his calling
by God to be a prophet of warning and hope
amidst a people headed toward exile in Babylon.
(Modern day Iraq).
Jeremiah reports that God appointed him as a
prophet before he was born.
Jeremiah's calling: "Before I formed you in the
womb I knew you . . God has given him words
in “to pluck up, to break down, to destroy, to
demolish, to build up and to plant” nations.
Demolish, and Then Start Over
1-4 The Message of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah of
the family of priests who lived in Anathoth in the
country of Benjamin. God's Message began to
come to him during the thirteenth year that
Josiah son of Amos reigned over Judah. It
continued to come to him during the time
Jehoiakim son of Josiah reigned over Judah.
And it continued to come to him clear down to
the fifth month of the eleventh year of the reign
of Zedekiah son of Josiah over Judah, the year
that Jerusalem was taken into exile.
This is what God said:
5 "Before I shaped you in the womb,
I knew all about you.
Before you saw the light of day,
I had holy plans for you:
A prophet to the nations—
that's what I had in mind for you."
6 But I said, "Hold it, Master God! Look at me.
I don't know anything. I'm only a boy!"
I'll tell you where to go and you'll go there.
I'll tell you what to say and you'll say it.
Don't be afraid of a soul.
I'll be right there, looking after you."
God's Decree.
9-10 God reached out, touched my mouth, and
said,
"Look! I've just put my words in your mouth —
hand-delivered!
See what I've done? I've given you a job to do
among nations and governments —
a red-letter day!
Your job is to pull up and tear down,
take apart and demolish,
And then start over,
building and planting."
PSALM 71:1-6 (UMH 794)
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
This psalm picks up on the fortress and youth
motifs of the reading from Jeremiah.
1-3 I run for dear life to God, I'll never live to regret it.
Do what you do so well:
get me out of this mess and up on my feet.
Put your ear to the ground and listen,
give me space for salvation.
Be a guest room where I can retreat;
you said your door was always open!
You're my salvation—my vast, granite fortress.
4-7 My God, free me from the grip of Wicked,
from the clutch of Bad and Bully.
You keep me going when times are tough—
my bedrock, God, since my childhood.
I've hung on you from the day of my birth,
the day you took me from the cradle;
I'll never run out of praise.
Many gasp in alarm when they see me,
but you take me in stride.
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HEBREWS 12:18-29
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Worship in the "unshakable" kingdom we have
inherited is not "hands off" or "back away," but
come in and join the fellowship of angels,
martyrs, prophets, God the judge of all, and
Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. And
it is not just a symbolic material representation
of spiritual realities, but an invitation to actually
encounter those realities directly, ourselves.
How can we but express thanksgiving, with a
reverence and awe, when we worship?
AN UNSHAKABLE KINGDOM
18-21 Unlike your ancestors, you didn't come to
Mount Sinai—all that volcanic blaze and earth
shaking rumble—to hear God speak. The ear
splitting words and soul-shaking message
terrified them and they begged him to stop.
When they heard the words—"If an animal
touches the Mountain, it's as good as dead"—
they were afraid to move. Even Moses was
terrified.
22-24 No, that's not your experience at all.
You've come to Mount Zion, the city where the
living God resides. The invisible Jerusalem is
populated by throngs of festive angels and
Christian citizens.
judgments that make us just. You've come to
Jesus, who presents us with a new covenant,
a fresh charter from God. He is the Mediator
of this covenant. The murder of Jesus, unlike
Abel's—a homicide that cried out for vengeance
— became a proclamation of grace.
25-27 So don't turn a deaf ear to these gracious
words. If those who ignored earthly warnings
didn't get away with it, what will happen to us if
we turn our backs on heavenly warnings? His
voice that time shook the earth to its foundation;
this time—he's told us this quite plainly—he'll
also rock the heavens: "One last shaking, from
top to bottom, stem to stern." The phrase "one
last shaking" means a thorough housecleaning,
getting rid of all the historical and religious junk
so that the unshakable essentials stand clear
and uncluttered.
28-29 Do you see what we've got? An unshakable
kingdom! And do you see how thankful we must
be? Not only thankful, but brimming with
worship, deeply reverent before God. For God is
not an indifferent bystander. He's actively
cleaning house, torching all that needs to burn,
and he won't quit until it's all cleansed. God
himself is Fire!
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LUKE 13:10-17
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Jesus heals a woman on the sabbath. She had
been crippled for eighteen years and confronts
an outraged leader of the synagogue.
We may have heard Jesus criticize the religious
establishment for their perverse priorities and
hypocrisy. Why complain about Sabbath details
when a woman was at last set free from a long
infirmity?
10-13 He was teaching in one of the meeting
places on the Sabbath. There was a woman
present, so twisted and bent over with arthritis
that she couldn't even look up. She had been
afflicted with this for eighteen years. Jesus saw
her, and called her over. "Woman, you're free!"
He laid hands on her and suddenly she was
standing straight and tall, giving glory to God.
14 The meeting-place president, furious because
Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the
congregation, "Six days have been defined as
work days. Come on one of the six if you want to
be healed, but not on the seventh, the Sabbath."
Sabbath every one of you regularly unties your
cow or donkey from its stall, leads it out to water,
and thinks nothing of it. So why isn't it all right
for me to untie this daughter of Abraham and
lead her from the stall where Satan has had her
tied these eighteen years?"
17 When he put it that way, his critics were left
looking quite silly and redfaced. The
congregation was delighted and cheered him on.
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
• 1718 - Hundreds of colonists from France
arrived in Louisiana.
Many settled in New Orleans.
• 1814 - The U.S. Library of Congress was
destroyed by British forces.
• 1916 - The National Park Service was
established as part of the U.S. Department of the
Interior.
• 1944 - Paris, France, was liberated by Allied
forces ending four years of German occupation.
• 1983 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union signed a
$10 billion grain pact.
• 1998 - A survey released said that 1/3 of all
Americans use the Internet.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 26TH —
The office is closed today.
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• 55 B.C. - Britain was invaded by Roman forces
under Julius Caesar.
• 1498 - Michelangelo was commissioned to make
the "Pieta."
• 1873 - The school board of St. Louis, Missouri,
authorized the first U.S. public kindergarten.
• 1973 - A U.S. Presidential Proclamation was
declared that made August 26th
Women's Equality Day.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 27TH —
Happy Birthday Margaret Sullins!
Happy Birthday Sharon Aupperle!
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• 1859 - The first oil well was successfully drilled
in the U.S. by Colonel Edwin L. Drake near
Titusville, PA.
• 1889 - Charles G. Conn received a patent for the
metal clarinet
• 1921 - The owner of Acme Packing Company
bought a pro football team for Green Bay, WI.
J.E. Clair paid tribute to those who worked in his
plant by naming the team the
Green Bay Packers.
• 2001 - Work began on the future site of a World
War II memorial on the U.S. capital's historic
national Mall. A site between the Washington
Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28TH —
ADAIR U.M.C. AD COUNCIL MEETS AT 7 P.M.
CASEY U.M.C. AD COUNCIL MEETS AT 7:30 P.M.
COMBINED AD COUNCIL MEETING AT 8 P.M.
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Happy Birthday Gage Noland!
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• 1609 - Delaware Bay was discovered by Henry
Hudson.
• 1619 - Ferdinand II was elected Holy Roman
Emperor. His policy of "One church, one king"
was his way of trying to outlaw Protestantism.
• 1774 - The first American-born saint was born
in New York City. Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton
was canonized in 1975.
• 1907 - "American Messenger Company" was
started by two teenagers, Jim Casey and Claude
Ryan. The company's name was later changed
to "United Parcel Service."
• 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his "I
Have a Dream" speech at a civil rights rally in
Washington, DC. More than 200,000 people
attended.
• 1990 - Iraq declared Kuwait to be its 19th
province and renamed Kuwait City al-Kadhima.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 29TH —
Happy Birthday Jim Rogers!
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• 1842 - The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the
British and the Chinese. The treaty ended the
first Opium War and gave the island of Hong
Kong to Britain.
• 1949 - At the University of Illinois, a nuclear
device was used for the first time to treat cancer
patients.
• 1957 - Senator Strom Thurmond of South
Carolina set a filibuster record in the U.S. when
he spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes.
• 1991 - The Communist Party in the Soviet Union
had its bank accounts frozen and activities were
suspended because of the Party's role in the
failed coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
• 1992 - The U.N. Security Council sent troops to
Somalia to guard the huge shipments of food.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 30TH —
Happy Birthday Margaret Heater!
Happy Birthday Lee Garside!
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• 1146 - European leaders outlawed the
crossbow.
• 1645 - American Indians and the Dutch made a
peace treaty at New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam
later became known as New York.
• 1682 - William Penn sailed from England and
later established the colony of Pennsylvania in
America.
• 1780 -General Benedict Arnold secretly pledged
to surrender West Point Fort to the British army.
• 1965 - Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the
U.S. Senate as a Supreme Court justice. Marshall
was the first black justice to sit on the Supreme
Court.
• 1983 - The space shuttle Challenger blasted off
with Guion S. Bluford Jr. aboard. He was the first
black American to travel in space.
• 1994 - Rosa Parks was robbed and beaten by
Joseph Skipper. Parks known for her refusal to
give up her seat on a bus in 1955, which sparked
the civil rights movement.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 31ST —
IN CASEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
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Happy Anniversary, Dave and Diana Young!
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• 1852 - The first pre-stamped envelopes were
created with legislation of the U.S. Congress.
• 1881 - The first tennis championships in the
U.S. were played.
• 1887 - The kinetoscope was patented by
Thomas Edison. The device was used to produce
moving pictures.
• 1920 - The first news program to be broadcast
on radio was aired. The station was 8MK in
Detroit, MI.
• 1964 - California officially became the most
populated state in America.
• 1965 - The Department of Housing and Urban
Development was created by the U.S. House of
Representatives and the Senate.
• 1991 - Uzbekistan and Kirghiziz declared their
independence from the Soviet Union. They were
the 9th and 10th republics to announce their
plans to secede.
• 1994 - A cease-fire was declared by the Irish
Republican Army after 25 years of bloodshed in
Northern Ireland.
• 1994 - Russia officially ended its military
presence in the former East Germany and the
Baltic countries after a half-century.
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FUTURE FOCUS —
School has started locally and in many other
areas. We share a responsibility to see that our
children can arrive at school and back home
safely. Always make your choices on the side of
their welfare and protection.
• • Some of our local young people are going
away to college now. In some cases there will be
serious culture shock, serious room mate shock
and serious sticker shock when they go to the
college book store. Read on.
COSTLY TEXTBOOKS — FROM U.S.A. TODAY
Textbook prices have jumped 82% in the past
decade. Publishers have been able to drive
up textbook prices because students "have to
buy whatever textbook they've been assigned,"
says Nicole Allen, a program director for the
Scholarly Publishing Academic Resources
Coalition, an alliance of academic libraries.
One in three seniors did not purchase required
academic materials because of cost, says a
2012 study by the non-profit National Survey of
Student Engagement. Students now have
access to a wider array of options, such as
digital textbooks, and photocopies of existing
books, which can save as much as 40%.
We see signs of "a turning point," in part
because more teachers are seeking cheaper
alternatives. Growing numbers of faculty are
publishing their own materials or adopting free
and low cost course materials online.
Amber Osterholt, a graduate student studying
anthropology at the University of Nevada, says
over the course of her academic career, she
has amassed 11 boxes of college textbooks.
She cannot sell them back to the book store
because there is always a new edition coming
out, rendering her copy useless.
Some textbooks cost her "half a month's rent,"
She estimates the total cost at about $6,000.
Thank you for all you do to keep our motors
humming. We owe it all to you . . . . . and . . .
whatever encourages you and sustains you.
God Bless and Keep You,
Donna K
