Choices and Consequences
All the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, and said to him, “You are old and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.” But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to govern us.” Samuel prayed to the Lord, and the Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. Just as they have done to me, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so also they are doing to you. Now then, listen to their voice; only—you shall solemnly warn them, and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.”
So Samuel reported all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots; [and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his courtiers. He will take one-tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and his courtiers.] He will take your male and female slaves, and the best of your cattle and donkeys, and put them to his work. He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”
But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; they said, “No! but we are determined to have a king over us, so that we also may be like other nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.”
[Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingship.” So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrificed offerings of well-being before the Lord, and there Saul and all the Israelites rejoiced greatly.]
1 Samuel 8:4-11,
(12-15), 16-20, (11:14-15)
The
Anointing of Saul
CHAGALL,
Marc
1958
Engraving
with Watercolor
Life is a matter of choices,
and every choice you make makes you.
~
John C. Maxwell
Did you know that to worry about a situation
you are making a conscious choice to do so?
~
Mike C. Adams
Tuesday
morning golf at Foothills in Lakewood!!!
A
hot day and then, of course, we had lunch.
Anna
Marie Nelson, Rita Sullivan, Carolyn Alexander
Pine
pollen “storm” in Evergreen!
It
is especially bad this year!
(Photo
from Facebook)
My
windshield Thursday morning.
Yuck.
Yes, I am allergic to it!!!
Our
Chew and Chat group had lunch at Abejas in Golden on Thursday.
Karla
Byrd, Kay Owen, Jackie McFarland, Carolyn Alexander
We
missed you, Sondra!
Opening Reception
Audubon Photography Exhibit
Center
for the Arts Evergreen
Thursday,
June 7, 2018
Trish
Haynes-Rosiere, Lynn Milliken
I
love the recycling prompts at the Center for the Arts!
Spares and Pairs
at
Tuscany Tavern
Friday,
June 8, 2018
Judi
Quackenboss, Susan Fitzwilson
Thank
you, Judi, for organizing it!
Susan
Fitzwilson, Nancy Grant, Rev. Susan Boucher
Neil
and Jennie Snyder
Anne
Moore was one of Evergreen Rotary Club’s Road Warriors at work
Saturday
morning picking up trash along the highway.
No one forces a person to be negative,
and no one forces anyone to be positive.
The choice is up to an individual and that person alone.
~
Byron Pulsifer
June 10, 2018 Third Sunday
after Pentecost
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Proper 5 Year B
The crowd came together again, so that Jesus and his disciples could not even eat. When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.” And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons.” And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come. But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man; then indeed the house can be plundered.
“Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter; but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”— for they had said, “He has an unclean spirit.”
Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside,
they sent to him and called him. A crowd was sitting around him; and they said
to him, “Your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, asking for
you.” And he replied, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” And looking at those
who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does
the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”
Mark 3:20-35
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
1
Samuel 8:4-11, (12-15), 16-20 with Psalm 138
Genesis
3:8-15 with Psalm 130
2
Corinthians 4:13-5:1
Mark
3:20-35
BASIC OUTLINE
OF MARK (FOCUS PASSAGE EXPANDED MARK 3:20-35)
1.
Introduction: “The Beginning”
(1:1–15)
2.
Jesus’ Public Ministry (1:16–8:26)
1.
Jesus’ Authority
(1:16–3:12)
2.
Jesus’ Teaching
(3:13–6:6)
1.
The Twelve Chosen
(3:13-19)
2.
Jesus Confronted at Home (3:20-35)
1.
Jesus Returns Home to Family
(3:20-21)
2.
Jesus Accused by Religious Leaders
(3:22)
3.
Jesus Defends Himself (3:23-29)
4.
Accusation Reiterated (3:30)
5.
Jesus Speaks on True Family (3:33-35)[10]
3.
Jesus and Mission
(6:7–8:26)
3.
Jesus’ Death (8:27–16:8)
1.
Jesus’ Instruction of
the Disciples (8:27–10:52)
2.
Jesus Confronts
Jerusalem (11:1–13:37)
3.
Jesus’ Death and
Resurrection (14:1–16:8)[11]