MARBLE COLLEGIATE CHURCH
Summer
Update
One West 29th Street, New York, New York 10001-4596 www.MarbleChurch.org 212-686-2770 212-685-0706 fax
JULY & AUGUST 2015 SUNDAY WORSHIP, 11AM DR. MICHAEL B. BROWN Senior Minister preaching*
JULY 5
Not Good Enough vs. Good Enough I Samuel 16:1-13
Dr. R. Mark King, preaching
JULY 12 Susanah Wade, preaching
JULY 19
This Is My Fight Song Luke 10:29-37
Rev. Kirsty DePree, preaching
JULY 26
Not Letting the Left See the Right or Vice Versa Matthew 6:1-4
Dr. R. Mark King, preaching
August Sermon Series
AUGUST 2*
The Bread of Life John 6:24-35
AUGUST 9*
Do’s and Don’ts Ephesians 4:25-5:2
AUGUST 16*
I’ll Give You One Wish I Kings 3:3-14
AUGUST 23*
Where’s Home? Psalm 84
AUGUST 30
Looking Ahead to August
Since I will be away in July (and will leave you in the span, their preaching will lead their people all the way extraordinarily capable and caring hands of our staff), I through our Holy Book. I’ve never been a Lectionary want to let you in on what I’m planning preacher, though I do often use the suggested to do on Sunday mornings here at Marble lessons in Advent, Lent, or special Sundays when I return in August. like Pentecost. But this year, I am going to use the Lectionary passages for the first four Every August I preach a series of Sundays of August. It will be the same format sermons where I pick familiar and intriguas always – just walking through a lesson ing Bible passages and you and I simply and letting it take us where it will. The only walk through them together, letting the difference this year, as noted, is that I will let scripture lessons say to us what they the Christian Church pick the passages for me. wish to say. My intent is always to make Dr. Michael Brown Also, in each week’s bulletin I’ll print what the those sermons as much teaching as they suggested lessons are for the upcoming week, are preaching, allowing us to eavesdrop giving you an opportunity to read through them and be on Bible passages without my trying to inject my own familiar with the texts to be explored. issues along the way. That method is often called “exegetical” or “expository” preaching, and I love doing By this point, some of you have already had an it. So, this August, as usual, that’s what we’ll do. epiphany: “There are five Sundays in August this year. Michael must not have checked the calendar!” No, The new wrinkle is that this August I am not going instead Sister Carol will be the preacher on August 30. to choose lessons simply because I enjoy them. She usually preaches here on Labor Day Weekend, but (Remember one year the August series was entitled “My Four Faves.”) Instead, this year I am going to allow true to her gracious nature she agreed to exchange weekends with me so that I could accept an invitation The Christian Church to choose the lessons for me. to officiate at an out-of-state wedding for a young That’s what many preachers do every week anyway. woman I have known since she was a child and whose As most of you know, The Church (not “our” church family has long been dear to our own. Thank you, but the global Christian Church) provides something Sister Carol! called The Lectionary. Those are collections of scripture lessons that over a three-year period will walk a Be good to yourself this summer. Take some time for congregation through the entire Bible from Genesis R&R. Play. Pray. Meditate. Relax when you can. Make to Revelation. Every Sunday there are suggested pastime for those near and dear. Keep coming to church. sages from Hebrew Scripture, the Psalms, the Gospels, And we’ll continue focusing on God’s Word for us, addand the Epistles. Many preachers write every sermon ing a slightly new wrinkle to that come August. all year long from those suggested passages. Some pick one lesson per Sunday, others combine more than one. But their theory is that over a three year
Can You See Anything? Mark 8:22-26
Sr. Carol Perry, preaching
(Please note, Sr. Carol is preaching one week earlier this year.)
WEDNESDAY WORSHIP 6:15PM Every Wednesday
JAZZ REVELATION
On hiatus for July & August
Summer Spirituality Series
friends is always wiser than making enemies. Our Summer Sundays, July 12 – August 23 | 10:00am Spirituality Series will explore We live in a city, a nation and a world of diverse our differences and similarities religious beliefs. We have churches of many denomi- within the world’s religions nations, temples, shrines and mosques tucked into amid open dialogue. As with every corner of our city. But do we know what each of our annual “Trialogue”, we these faiths believes and practices? By opening our want to focus on understanding minds and exploring the differences and similarities the uniqueness of the major in our beliefs, could we begin to live with less fear, religions, to build bridges and anger, recrimination, violence and misunderstanding establish ties that bind. Over the in our lives and hearts? Jesus understood that making continued on page 3