Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Good Morning

 

-- We are going to the beach for Spring Break, and it looks like we are going to be leaving early on Sunday morning.  So I won't be at church or in class this Sunday, so y'all will be on your own for class on Sunday.

 

-- note that this is our last week with Volume 1 -- we will be moving into volume 2 next week.

 

Today's Reading:  Revelation 5:9-10 ; 194-196 in Barclay, stop at "The Song of the Angels"

 

-- short passage today.

 

-- one of the great things about a study such as this are the little things that get brought to your attention.  In this case, the idea that the song of the angels has seven things that Christ possesses. Somehow, knowing that they have seven things in their song just makes it fit with everything else we have read to date, and I get the message that God manages every little detail.

 

--  interesting how this list (power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, the blessing) is echoed in other things, such as the Lord's prayer (for thine is the kingdom, the power, the glory, forever).  We say those words, but don't really connect with them after awhile due to familiarity, but they represent amazing and important concepts.

 

-- on a another train of thought, there is something really majestic and powerful about a group reciting or singing together.  One of the things I try to do when I am running the sound during the worship service, is when we have the Lord's Prayer or Apostle Creed, I try to take down Bobby's mike as far as I can, so that we can hear each other as a group, as a chorus, reciting these, rather than just listening to one man.  I think that feeling -- from hearing a host of people in unison -- is the feeling that John is experiencing here -- only that his host is in the millions rather than the hundreds.

Today's Scripture

"What do you want me to do for you?" Jesus asked him.  The blind man said, "Rabbi, I want to see."

Mark 10:51

Today's prayer requests:   Brad and Megan Douglas

Brad's grandfather Joe Adair passed away on Sunday night about 9A.  Funeral is going to be today.  We just need to remember their family during this time of loss.

Today's class member prayer:

Danny Walker

Have a great day.

Jay