What to Expect Sunday (8/19/18)

"But, like, what does it have to do with me?"

When we read a map, we are looking for directions. When we read a work of philosophy, we are looking for ideas. When we read some stories, we are looking for thrills. When we read other stories, we are looking for the man or woman who wrote them. When we read the Bible, what are we looking for?

Join us Sunday at 5 pm at the Key residence (517 E. 53rd St) to discuss what exactly the Bible is, and what we ought to be looking for. Click here to register to bring food- its Thanksgiving in August!

Songs We Will Sing:

from INHERITANCE http://smarturl.it/AA_Inheritance Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art. Thou my best Thought, by day or by night, Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.

Be Thou My Vision is a meditative prayer, asking that Jesus would give us eyes to see him and his kingdom.

Provided to YouTube by CDBaby I Lift My Eyes (Psalm 123) · Kaitlyn Ferry Psalms ℗ 2016 Kaitlyn Ferry Released on: 2016-10-07 Auto-generated by YouTube.

A modern retuning of Psalm 123 celebrates God's faithfulness to his people AND to those who bless his people.

Confident Humility

“The church must bear in mind that among her very enemies are hidden her future citizens; and when confronted with them she must not think it a fruitless task to bear with their hostility until she finds them confessing the faith…Some predestined friends, as yet unknown even to themselves, are concealed among our most open enemies.”

— St. Augustine, The City of God, Book I, Chapter 35.

Midtown Beauty

I took this walking home from the last bananas game of the regular season. I'm grateful to the King for the neighborhood I live in, and whoever it was that took the risk of trying something creative in a rundown municipal stadium. You have given my sons and I a gift. If tradition is the memory of someone's past enthusiasm and presence, then may the noise from Grayson keep Parkside awake for a thousand years.

Songs to Help Us See

When I (Soren) was in first grade, I failed a vision test. Which is sad. But not nearly as sad as the fact that I failed it on purpose. The doctor pulled my mom out of the room and said, "He failed the test on purpose. He was describing letters and signs that look like one another- but that isn't how your vision goes bad."

Pre-order Inheritance today http://smarturl.it/AA_Inheritance When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say, It is well, it is well, with my soul. It is well (it is well) with my soul (with my soul) It is well, it is well with my soul.

Do you know how your vision goes bad? Do you know what defective eyesight is? There are signs of the kingdom everywhere- but what if we don't know how to look? What if we don't want to look?

from INHERITANCE http://smarturl.it/AA_Inheritance Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art. Thou my best Thought, by day or by night, Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.

The songs we sing this week are attempts to help correct our vision. But they don't just correct our vision- they help us want to see.