June 2008 Chronicle
Posted by Andrea Pegram, June 4th , 2008.Please click on the June 2008 Chronicle for church news and interesting events happening at First UCC this month!
Archive for June, 2008
Fighting Apostles Make Softball History
Posted by Sandy Johnson, June 2nd , 2008.
Okay, maybe not history — but they did beat the Methodist White team on June 1!
This is the report filed by Manager Scott Richardson…
Apostles defeat Methodist White The Fighting Apostles played ” small ball ” to defeat United Methodist White 14-6 last week.
We scored 14 runs with only three extra base hits. Mike Schlottmann posted the best slugging percentage with two doubles. Doug Morris had two hits, including a triple. Eli Szydlo quietly scored three times to lead the way. Brother Dan scored twice, while exhibiting great range and a strong arm at shortstop.
We are now 3-1 on the season. Please join us for a game. All are invited.
Storms, Sand, and Rocks — Sermon from June 1,2008
Posted by Sandy Johnson, June 2nd , 2008.
The story about the wise man who built his house on a rock and the foolish man who built his house on the sand got me to thinking about storms, sand, and rocks.
Storms, Sand, and Rocks
Psalm 46 Matthew 7:21-29
We know about storms. We know about sand. The rock is the challenge.
There is something almost eerie about having this text this morning, when storms have been so much in the news lately. There was the cyclone in Burma (aka Myanmar), the tornado in Hugo, Minnesota, and the heavy rains that followed the earthquake that did such terrible damage in China. Meteorologists tell us that severe storms seem to be increasing, part of the larger pattern of climate change that we are watching with growing alarm, but our ancient ancestor who wrote Psalm 46 saw the same chaos as we see today.
But not all storms come from atmospheric disturbances.