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Bigger Barns
(The Parable of the Rich Fool in Luke 12:13-21)
ABERYSTWYTH 7.7.7.7 D "Jesus, Lover of My Soul"
"Bigger barns are what I need!" So a rich man said one day.
"From my worries I'll be free when my wealth is stored away."
"Fool!" God said, "Today you'll die! Will your wealth
mean anything?
All life's blessings really lie in my life that wealth can't
bring."
"Bigger barns are what we need for our money, gadgets, more!"
Lord, we're tempted to believe having wealth, we'll be secure!
Somewhere children cry for food or to have a doctor's care.
Can our bigger barns be good when poor neighbors know despair?
God of love, we long to know what will make us truly blest.
Jesus taught us long ago wealth won't give us peace or rest.
You are our security! Safe in you, we serve, O Lord.
May we find we're rich indeed when we're sharing with the poor.
Tune: Joseph Parry, 1879.
Text: Copyright © 2001 by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette. All rights
reserved.
305 South Broadway, Pitman, NJ 08071 Phone: (856)-589-8444.
Email: Bruce.Gillette@ecunet.org
Carolyn Winfrey Gillette is co-pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church in Pitman, NJ and author of Gifts of Love: New
Hymns for Today's Worship (Geneva Press, 2000).
Please drop us an email note to our personal user box
for permission to use the hymn since Carolyn does like to know who are
using her hymns. Thank you.
You are welcome to share the hymn(s) with neighboring
pastors or other online friends, but please include the copyright and
contact information. BTW, a complete list of Carolyn's hymns, including
links to a dozen of the hymn texts posted online, go to http://www.firstpresby.org/hymnlist.htm
Blessings
on your ministry.
Grace
and Peace,
Bruce
Bruce
& Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, Co-Pastors
First Presbyterian Church, 305 South Broadway, Pitman NJ 08071
Office Phone: (856)-589-1050
Home Phone: (856)-589-8444
Email: Bruce.Gillette@ecunet.org
Church Fax: (856)-589-1051
Church website: http://www.firstpresby.org/
Another hymn by Carolyn Gillette deals with freedom,
based on texts from Galatians.
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A number of the most important actions of the 219th
General Assembly have now been acted upon by the presbyteries,
confirming most of them as amendments to the PC(USA) Book of Order.
We provided resources to help inform the
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Amendment 10-A,
which removes the current ban on
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender persons being considered as
possible candidates for ordination as elder or ministers.
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Amendment 10-2,
which would add the Belhar Confession to our Book of
Confessions. Disapproved, because as an amendment
to the Book of Confessions it needed a 2/3 vote, and did not
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Amendment
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Voices of Sophia blog
Heather Reichgott, who has created
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After fifteen years of scholarship
and activism, Voices of Sophia presents a blog. Here, we present the
voices of feminist theologians of all stripes: scholars, clergy,
students, exiles, missionaries, workers, thinkers, artists, lovers
and devotees, from many parts of the world, all children of the God
in whose image women are made. .... This blog seeks to glorify God
through prayer, work, art, and intellectual reflection. Through
articles and ensuing discussion we hope to become an active and
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John Harris’ Summit to
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Theological and philosophical
reflections on everything between summit to shore, including
kayaking, climbing, religion, spirituality, philosophy, theology,
politics, culture, travel, The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), New
York City and the Queens neighborhood of Ridgewood by a progressive
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Witherspoon board, and is designated pastor of North Presbyterian
Church in Flushing, NY. |
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John Shuck’s Shuck and Jive
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Tenn., blogs about spirituality, culture, religion (both organized
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