Spirit-filled, Spirit-sent!
Acts 2:1-8 & 11-18 (MSG)
May 31, 2009 - Pentecost
Rev. Nancy Pfaltzgraf
Who would have thought that in a year that saw the release of the movie version of The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers, Star Wars Episode 2, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets that the top-grossing movie in
To Be Continued...
Acts 1:1-11
May 24, 2009
Rev. Nancy Pfaltzgraf
My husband Tom and I have become more or less regular viewers of several TV shows that have ongoing story lines. This year several of them began with a narrator's voice saying, "Previously on Grey's Anatomy or Ghost Whisperer..." These words were then followed with brief but significant snippets of previous episodes to get viewers ready for what was about to take place. The same is true for those oftentimes tense multi-part shows that leave you hanging in the last scene with those dreaded words "to be continued..."
Love In-Deed!
1 John 3:16-24 (MSG)
May 3, 2009
Rev. Nancy Pfaltzgraf
In his blog titled Think Personally a guy by the name of Brian Zopf writes the following: One of my favorite Peanuts cartoons by the late artist Charles Schulz is a simple 4-frame comic that has stuck with me since my youth. In the 1st frame Snoopy stands shivering next to his doghouse in the snow. In the second frame Charlie Brown and Linus come by, all bundled in their winter faire. Upon seeing Snoopy freezing, Linus leans down to pat his head and says: "Be of good cheer, Snoopy." To which Charlie responds: "Yes. Be of good cheer." They walk on together and the final frame shows Snoopy [a question mark above his head], still freezing, outside in the cold.
