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From Pastor Jay You might think that this gas shortage had something to do with Hurricane Ike or the logistics of getting refined fuel from one part of the country to another. You would be marginally correct if you thought that. Only marginally. Most of what caused the gas shortage had very little to do with trucks or hurricanes. It had to do with the human heart. It had to do with a disease of that heart, an effect of sin: the overwhelming fear of the unknown. Trust has been obliterated by a gas pump that we used to take for granted. Some of us have searched the internet to find gas while we've been sitting at 3/4ths of a tank. Throughout the United States, people are worrying about the stock market crashing. Trust has been obliterated by what corporations told us was valuable, but we now see is ethereal junk that vanishes in the blink of an Excel spreadsheet. Some of us have dumped our entire financial portfolios and buried our cash in mason jars. If you spend any time reading about the values of Americans today, you find out that one of the highest sought after values in America is authenticity. I have a feeling that a renewed desire for the authentic will be on the rise this week. People want something real, something forthright, something tangible - something they can trust. Some of us don't care if you're pretty or wealthy or smart or right all the time, we just want to know we can trust you. We live in a world that knows less and less about what it is to trust. We live in a world that has more fear than faith. In the midst of that world you, as one given faith, are called to trust and be trust worthy. How could you show someone that you trust God today? How radically could you follow Him? How could you be trust worthy to your neighbor? How could you show that faith is more than smoke and mirrors? Christianity has everything to do with trust. We call it faith, this ruthless trust, this fierce assurance. It's not based on proof, but it can't be proven false and stand. It's not entirely emotional, but it cannot come into being without our heart involved. It is something so simple that babies carry it in their heartbeats, and it is something so complex that theologians have written volumes about it. This faith is knowing who God is. This faith is knowing what He has done for us. This faith is knowing that everything outside of Him is as fickle as gas pumps and stockmarkets. In Christ, Pastor Jay Clear
Your Calendars! New and
Important
Calendar Items! September 20th - Wake Forest vs. Florida State Tailgate Join us two to two and a half hours before the game for food and time spent in community with one another before the 'Noles take on Wake Forest at 7pm. September 21st - The 19th Sunday After Pentecost
Pastor Jay will be out of town from the 24th (Wednesday) through the 26th (Friday) at the Florida-Georgia District's President's Convocation. September 24th - +Vespers+ / NOOMA Join us without Pastor Jay as we begin our series "The Jesus Paradox" with a new NOOMA video: "She". Two New Series - +Vespers+ and Sunday Morning Join us for the beginnings of two new series:
Help Hurricane Victims in Haiti It is still unsure what hurricane victims in Texas need after Hurricane Ike, but you CAN help hurricane victims in Haiti by bringing items this week to University Lutheran so they can be brought to the Florida-Georgia President's Convocation. Please consider bringing any of the following items by this coming Tuesday (9/23) and Pastor Jay will bring them to the President's Convocation where they will be shipped to Haiti:
LWML Sunday is October 5th Starting this coming Sunday, September 21st, look for our large Mite Box on the entry table. We welcome any donation large or small to help in this ministry. -Cheryl Dance Directory Published - 9/28 Check University Lutheran starting Sunday, September 28th for the Fall 2008 University Lutheran directory. Missed a
sermon? Send
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card or celebrating with the following people in some way this week:
Good
Stuff The next day as the rich man is preparing to leave, the butler runs into his study, breathless and says, "Oh thank goodness I caught you before you left. You gave me the wrong combination...."
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Forget Your Checkbook Last Sunday? Send in your offering via University Lutheran's web site. Prayer List (Please consider including the following in your
prayer life this week) Thanksgiving for safe travels All those who are dealing with the effects of Hurricanes Gustave and Ike and Tropical Storm Faye, especially Crystal Berner's grandparents Sylvia Culp who has moved to Hospice House at least temporarily All those who are dealing with a cold or the flu The family of Holly Petruso who are going through a variety of illnesses and tragedies Doug Rogers, Jordan Snyder's grandfather, that he may experience God's healing All missionaries to foreign lands and different cultures All those who work in the Florida Georgia District and will be traveling to the President's convocation this coming week Dagmar, that God might protect her as she deals with things in her life Every week we be pray for a few students. This week we pray for: Kara C., Hunter C., Chelsea H., Brittany J., Jessica N., Tanya S., Kevin S., Ashley M., Hunter R., and Elizabeth D. ...and that our prayers may be joined with the prayers of all God's saints here on earth. Weekly
Events Sunday @ 10:15am - Choir Sunday @ 11am -
WORSHIP Wednesday @ 5:30pm
- Dinner at ULC Wednesday @ 6pm
- Click
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In Your Email Box! LutherNOLE T-Shirts Peer
Minister Corner We continued our counseling training
talking about confrontation and accountability. We planned for future events
including the October service retreat, Trunk or Treat, and we decided
on a new promotional item for the colder months - travel mugs. Your Peer
Ministers are Adam
Douthwaite, Randee
Garrett,
and Crystal
Berner.
Last
Sunday In Perspective
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