Happy
Mother’s Day!
An Overflow
of Praise,
Agape Love
34 Then Peter began to speak:
[in the home of Cornelius]
44While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who
heard the word. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were
astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the
Gentiles, for they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter
said, "Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have
received the Holy Spirit just as we have?" So he ordered them to be
baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they invited him to stay for several
days.
Acts
10: 44-48
Peter Baptizing the Centurion Cornelius
TREVISANI,
Francesco
1709
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Agape doesn't love somebody because they're
worthy.
Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love.
Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful.
Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful.
~ Rob Bell
, The
measure of love, is to love without measure.
~ St.
Francis de Sales
Some special visitors at the lake last week!
We thought from a distance they were cormorants,
but they were White-faced Ibis taking a break on their
migration route.
Anita and Linda were honored at church on Wednesday
evening
as they served their last Community Supper.
May 1, 2002-May 9, 2012
Menus from the
first meal and the last meal.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Red Rocks Community College
Medical
Imaging Education
Graduate
Recognition Ceremony
Denise Rose
Radiologic
Technology
Congratulations, Denise!
Friday, May 11, 2012
Spring is here???
We had three or four inches of heavy, wet snow in one
hour.
My poor bleeding hearts did not like it, but the
moisture is welcome!
Saturday morning, May 12, 2012
Denver Seminary
Commencement
Kimra Suzanne Perkins
Master of Divinity Degree
Graduating with Honors
and
Zondervan Publishing House Biblical Languages Award in Hebrew
Studies
Kimra is shown here with her younger brother Aaron
(Tiny), her mother, and her husband, Randy.
And then it was time to party!
Laurie and Donovan
“Pomp and Circumstance” for Kimra on kazoos.
A special gift … an original butterfly painting and a
hug.
Congratulations, Kimra!
Eight looooooooooong years!
Because
we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace
with each other and with nature. That is not just a dream, but a necessity. We
are dependent on each other in so many ways that we can no longer live in
isolated communities and ignore what is happening outside those communities.
~ Dalai Lama
May 13, 2013 Sixth
Sunday of Easter
Previous OPQs may be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
[Jesus said:] "As the Father has loved me, so
I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide
in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy
may be complete.
"This is my
commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life
for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not
call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master
is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you
everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose
you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that
the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these
commands so that you may love one another."
John
15:9-17
Agnus
Day, by
James Wetzstein
Artist’s comment:
Gabe,
consultant to Agnus Day for the shorty set, thinks it's lame that Facebook
doesn't have a "Love" button.
(Gabe
is their son.)
Agnus Day
appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
Acts 10:44–48
Ps. 98
1 John 5:1–6
John 15:9–17