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JULY & AUGUST 2018
Press Pause
It’s time for many of us to press pause on our lives. “Holiday,” however, comes from “holy day,” We work more hours per week than almost every which means that other country in the world. We send and receive time away from work work emails after hours and on weekends. Four out provides the space to of five of us eat lunch at our desks and rarely take reflect on our lives. It is breaks. We receive less vacation than our European a time to consider the neighbors. The average paid vacation in the U.S. is direction we’re headtwo weeks, while in Europe it is four to six weeks. ing, and as I mentioned Yet remarkably only half of us use all of our vacation in a recent sermon, “If each year. Those who are on the outside looking in think our lives are out of balance and unhealthy—and you don’t change your Dr. Michael Bos direction, you may end up where you’re they’re probably right! We feel the weight of the sched- “Sometimes it is going” (Lao Tzu). Our lives can become so busy we ules we keep and that is why we look forward to summer vacations. when we’re doing no longer know what direction we’re Vacations are a good thing and can nothing that God headed, and they can become so noisy we no longer can hear God. I hope this be a godly thing. In Ecclesiastes does something summer we all have a chance to go on it says, “Go, eat your bread with in us.” holiday and think about our lives and lisenjoyment, and drink your wine with ten for God. Sometimes it is when we’re a merry heart; for God has long doing nothing that God does something in ago approved what you do” (9:7). Sometimes we need to kick back and enjoy life. Even us. We just need to slow down long enough so that our souls can catch up with our bodies. God took time off after creating the world! My prayer is that whatever our summer plans, God Here’s what I am wondering: should we be “on holuses this time away to breathe life into us so we can iday” instead of “taking vacations”? You might think continue to grow into who God created us and calls this is saying the same thing in a different way, but I want us to consider two very different ideas about our us to be. time away from work. Join us in person or online for the August sermon “Vacation” means “to vacate” or “be free from” series, “Press Pause.” And we want to hear from you! something. Therefore, we’re on vacation when we Share your thoughts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. have an extended time away from work, but this says #PressPause nothing about what that time away is filled with.
JULY / AUGUST 2018
SUNDAY WORSHIP, 11AM
JULY 1
JULY 15
JULY 29
Daryl Paul Lobban
Dr. Kenneth Ruge
Rev. J. Elise Brown, Ph.D.
Why We Worship
Slow Down and Live!
JULY 8
JULY 22
Rev. J. Elise Brown, Ph.D.
Susanah Wade
To Be Made Well
Title
To Get Up and Walk
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