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From Pastor Jay The recruiter called me cocky because I was interested in joining the Navy after college, but I wasn't willing to leave college in the middle of my junior year - which was when I was talking to him. I might have been pulling a bit of a cocky attitude that afternoon too. I can be that way. Apparently so could the Apostle Paul. In the 3rd Chapter of Philippians, the Epistle lesson from last week, Paul is pulling an attitude with the Philippians. Actually, he's pulling the 'tude with people who are telling the Philippians that they aren't really Christians because they weren't Jews first. It ticked him off. Paul says, "You wanna talk Jewish stuff? Let's talk about Jewish stuff. I've been circumcised on the right day, not near it, but on it. I'm not only Jewish, but I still speak Hebrew unlike many Jews today. I'm one of 6,000 people in Israel that has his religiosity so together that I was invited to a group called "the Separated" (Pharisees). You want cocky? I'll give you cocky..." But that's not what Paul put his hope in. He had plenty of reason to be cocky, but he said he regarded all of that stuff as rubbish. Now when you're thinking about "rubbish", stop thinking "recycled paper" and start thinking about what they have to pump out of a Johnny-on-the-Spot. Yeah, THAT kind of refuse...the kind of rubbish you find in the smurf-blue "water". Instead, Paul's cockiness came from Jesus. It came from knowing that the worthiness of knowing Jesus was beyond the worth of anything in his life. Because of that knowledge of Jesus' worthiness Paul was able to stare down the bullies telling the Philippians they were 2nd-class citizens and say, "This may sound cocky....but I know I am, and I'm pretty sure that you are...well...full of rubbish." May you renew a cocky knowledge of the worth of Jesus in your life, and seeing His worth, may you regard everything else as rubbish. In Christ, Pastor Jay Clear
Your Calendars! New and
Important
Calendar Items! October 12th - The 22nd Sunday After Pentecost
Council Members, please stay after worship for a council meeting. October 12th - AIDS Walk Join other Tallahassee Lutheran churches as they participate in the Big Bend Cares AIDS Walk. Registration is at 2pm, the walk is at 3pm. Contact Cindy at 850 510 9089 for more information. All sorts of volunteers are needed! October 18th - Work Day!!! (Saturday) Come and join us as we have a workday at University Lutheran including such projects as: putting in parking signs, fixing the light above the pingpong table, fixing the sink counter in the men's room, raking leaves, and much much more. Invite Your Parents To Parents' Weekend!!! You love your parents and so do we. We would love to meet your parents on Parents' Weekend, October 24th-26th. We would love to meet your parents at one of the following events:
Trunk or Treat Seeking Volunteers The Peer Ministry Team is seeking to run a "Trunk or Treat" event at University Lutheran on Reformation Night (October 31st) from 5pm-7pm. Sign up beginning this Sunday at the University Lutheran table (garnet and gold tablecloth)!!! The idea of "Trunk or Treat" is to make University Lutheran's parking lot into a non-threatening "neighborhood" where children can go trick-or-treating from one car to the next. In order to make "Trunk or Treat" a success we need:
Children's Sermons to begin this coming Sunday! Pastor Jay will begin including a children's sermon beginning on October 12th. Bring a child....it'll be fun. Missed a
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prayer life this week) Thanksgiving for safe travel and meaningful work for all 49 students who went on the Lutheran Student Fellowship Region 12 retreat in Valdosta, GA from FSU, UGA, and UF. That God might spur us on to contemplate the mystery of His love for us. Mellisa Poulin's godfather, Bob, who is in the hospital. Thanksgiving for the work of all those who help with the mission of Lutheran Women's Missionary League. Every week we be pray for a few students. This week we pray for: Hannah B., Brandon B., Rachel C., Jonathan C., Megan D., Jamie D., Kwentin E., Hannah F., Jennifer G., and Natalie G. ...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
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Minister Corner We concluded watching our series
about counseling training and will have a small workshop and role
playing next week. We continued planning for the
October
service/social project - Trunk or Treat. Your Peer
Ministers are Adam
Douthwaite, Randee
Garrett,
and Crystal
Berner.
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Sunday In Perspective
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