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From Pastor Jay Our lives get busy, they get frantic, and if you're like me - they then get irritable. People who know me well know that there is at least one sure-fire way to get me in a bad mood, and that is to make me feel like my time is being wasted...especially when I'm in a pinch. Time is important to me. Time is not money for me, it is infinitely more valuable. If you give me a choice between 25 extra dollars a day and 25 extra minutes I day, I will choose the 25 minutes without batting an eye. These last few Sundays before we begin the season of Advent focuses us on the return of Christ. Epistle readings from I Thessalonian 5, Gospel readings from Matthew 25, and Old Testament readings from cheery "day of the Lord" types like Amos focus us on a day that most of the world still calls "doomsday". The History Channel continues its onslaught of ridiculous programming about how the end of the world is coming in 2012. Nervous Swiss people wonder when the Large Haldron Collider will blow. The whole world waits...popping Zoloft like it's PEZ for anxiety...for the end of existence. Being someone who is concerned about time, you would think I would dread this "doomsday" that the Gospels speak of. I don't. I actually pray for it to come - daily. When it says in Thessalonians that we will a trumpet and an archangel...I actually get kind of excited. I get excited because I know what that day promises. It promises eternity...a "time" that will never run out. But that isn't all it promises. It promises that sin, the thing that detracts from our enjoyment of life - the thing that makes us feel like we have even less time that what we do - that will be gone too. All of that time will be ours. All of the possibilities. All of the books we could ever write or read. All of the paintings we could draw. All of the kisses we could savor. All of the hugs we could hold. All the newsletters I could muster. All of the time we could want, and more...I can't wait for this "doomsday." In Christ, Pastor Jay Clear
Your Calendars! New and
Important
Calendar Items! November 15th - Boston College vs. FSU Tailgate (Annual Chili Cook Off!!!!) Stop by University Lutheran on your way to the game and warm up! Kickoff is at 8pm and we will begin serving food by 5 or 6pm. Click here to visit our facebook event. BRING YOUR READY-TO-EAT CHILI!!! The best chili gets a prize. November 16th - The 26th Sunday After Pentecost
Join us as we go to Crystal's Senior Recital from 5pm-6pm at Lindsay Recital Hall (LRH) at the Kuersteiner Music Building (KMU) at Florida State University (FSU). Click here for the facebook event. November 24th - Shoesgiving!!! Join us at University Lutheran on Monday, Nov. 24th at 7pm for SHOESGIVING!!! We will be having an early Thanksgiving meal and party before break. Admission price - one or two pairs of *gently used* shoes to go to Soles4Souls, a non-profit that sends shoes to developing countries. Women's Bible Study/Small Group Interest has been expressed for University Lutheran to have a Women's Bible Study/Small Group to be held most likely on a weekday at University Lutheran around lunchtime. Interested in attending? Contact Pastor Jay. Helping ULC Grow Meeting This Sunday! Helping ULC Grow members, we will be meeting after worship this coming Sunday. Bring your stories from your "recon Sunday"!!! Shoesgiving before Thanksgiving!!! (Mon., Nov. 24th) The mystery has been lifted. Join us at University Lutheran on Monday, Nov. 24th at 7pm for SHOESGIVING!!! We will be having an early Thanksgiving meal and party before break. Admission price - one or two pairs of *gently used* shoes to go to Soles4Souls, a non-profit that sends shoes to developing countries. German Service is December 3rd!!! Start telling your friends and family about the upcoming German Christmas Service at University Lutheran on December 3rd. You can view this year's printable flyer by clicking this link (color copies will be available at ULC). Additionally this year, you will be able to direct your friends to www.universitylutheranchurch.org/germanchristmas for information about this annual service. Strategic Leadership Team - Meeting on Nov. 23 All those who have agreed to be a part of the Strategic Leadership Team, be prepared to meet on the 23rd of November and expect an email from Pastor Jay this upcoming week. This Week's
"Pastor's Challenge" Every week, I try to live out my sermon in my life in some way. (I hear it's good to try to practice what you preach.) This week I'm making it a point to make the sign of the cross on my forehead and on my heart, just like we talked about in the children's sermon. You have two opportunities to make the sign of the cross when you get up in the morning before the next sermon - take them!!! Send
a Card Consider sending a
card or celebrating with the following people in some way this week:
Good
Stuff Pastor Steinmueller walked into the bar
one afternoon to find three of his parishioners sitting around having a
beer. He went to the first one and said, "Bob, tell me...do you
want to go to heaven?" Bob, of course, said "yes". "Then
get against that wall there," said Pastor Steinmueller, pointing. Pastor Steinmueller went to the next
parishioner saying, "Susan, tell me...do you want to go to
heaven?" Susan, of course, said "yes" as well. Pastor
Steinmeuller instructed her to get against the wall as well. Further down the bar sat John, a member of
Pastor Steinmueller's church, but one who only came twice a year.
"Do you want to go to heaven?" Steinmueller asked. Looking around
nervously to see if the pastor was perhaps talking to someone else,
John says, "No." Pastor Steinmeuller was aghast and said,
"Are you going to tell me that when you die, you don't want to go to
heaven?" John let out a sigh of
relief...."Oh....THEN...yes. My apologies, pastor, I thought you
were getting a group ready to go right now."
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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) Continued prayers for Bob and Sylvia Culp. For Bob who has just gone into the hospital and Sylvia who continues to deal with new life at Miracle Hill. The friends and family of Steven Jerger, who passed away recently. All those who have been engaged by mailings and phone calls from University Lutheran. Wisdom and guidance for our new President. Thanksgiving that Crystal Berner passed her juries. Thanksgiving for the arrival of Tim's newborn nephew, Samuel. All those who struggle with relationships with family and friends. Every week we be pray for a few students. This week we pray for: Chelsea A., Kate F., Mercedes K., Taylor J., Amanda R., Ila A., Jason M., Adam D., Eric G., and Alison S. We also begin to pray for those whom we are reaching out to in our community: Palice W., the Deshazier family, Vernon R., Lucy M., Patricia T., Nehemiah C., Harold W., Ethel S., and Helen J. ...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
here for ULC's Calendar of Events Email
Links: Get This
In Your Email Box! LutherNOLE T-Shirts Peer
Minister Corner We continued our study of Ephesians
which will show up in the next two +Vespers+ services. We planned for the mysterious "Shoe
Party". Your Peer
Ministers are Adam
Douthwaite, Randee
Garrett,
and Crystal
Berner.
Last
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