Friday, December 16, 2005

Good Morning! 

Remember that this Sunday is our the Christmas Musical.

Today's Scripture

For the lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd: he will lead them to springs of living water.  And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

Revelations 7:17

Today's Overview

Three quick things for today.

On Sunday, we'll wrap up our discussion of the Narnia movie with discussion of what we thought of the movie, and what if we think that the movie tells a story that the church can use in a way to reach new believers, or to inspire and teach current believers.

Second, we had talked a little bit about other study possibilities, one of which is the Book of Revelation.  If you follow the link below, it will take to you a long Wikipedia entry about Revelation, which will give you a good overview of that book of the Bible, and possibly give you some direction as to whether you'd like to do a study on that book or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation

Third, there was discussion what books of the Bible are in the Catholic bible but not the Protestant Bible.  Based on what I found, all of the "extra" books in the Catholic Bible are in the Old Testament.  These are:

Tobit

Judith

1 Maccabees

2 Maccabees

Wisdom

Sirach

Baruch

In addition, the Catholic Bible has some different versions of the books that are in the Protestant Bible -- for instance, the book of Esther in the Catholic Bible has 103 verses that do not appear in the Protestant Bible.

Today's prayer request:      Our troops in Iraq

The elections went well apparently in Iraq yesterday, so let's pray not only for the continued safety of our troops there, but also for events to move quickly in the right direction so that many of them can come home soon.

Today's class member prayer:  

Jay Waters

Have a great day.

Jay