This week: Jesus & his Mother

 

John 2:2-11

²Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. ³When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ ⁴And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come.’ ⁵His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ ⁶Now standing there were six stone water-jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. ⁷Jesus said to them, ‘Fill the jars with water.’ And they filled them up to the brim. ⁸He said to them, ‘Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.’ So they took it. ⁹When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom ¹⁰and said to him, ‘Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.’ ¹¹Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

Today's Tailgate!

Homecoming Tailgate!

We're on! Look for our banner (above) in the student section of The Grove Saturday afternoon. We'll be cooking burgers and hot dogs.

Dr. Ed Ryland will meet Garrett to set up the canopy and table Friday, and he'll join you Saturday afternoon about 2 p.m. I have asked Mthr Dawnell to make sure someone else is there from about 11:30 'til 2.

So next week we must get on with getting t-shirts. Think about what you want to put on them. And I'll be looking forward to joining the fun at the next home game.

Hawk on!

        

Homecoming!

A member of St. Thomas' has suggested something we did not think of, namely tailgating in The Grove for home games! In fact, he offered to pay for the food if we want to do that.

I think it is a great idea, and this coming weekend is Homecoming! Monday I will go to Office Depot and order our banner. I do not have a tent or canopy, but we can probably rent one.

The biggest problem I have is that I will be out of town from noon Friday until noon Sunday. I made these plans months ago, long before I knew when Homecoming would be!

I can get some folks from St. Thomas' to help get ready for this and be there with you, but...

MOST IMPORTANT: If we get this organized, will you be at our spot in The Grove? I need to be sure at least a couple of you are there at all times, so if you can't be, please let me know ASAP.

Text or e-mail.

        

The Grieving Sisters

Our chapter in "Encounters with Jesus" for this week is based on the story of the death of Lazarus and Jesus' interactions with Lazarus' sisters, Mary and Martha:

John 11:17-36

17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. ¹⁸Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, ¹⁹and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. ²⁰When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home. ²¹Martha said to Jesus, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. ²²But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him.’ ²³Jesus said to her, ‘Your brother will rise again.’ ²⁴Martha said to him, ‘I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.’ ²⁵Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, ²⁶and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?’ ²⁷She said to him, ‘Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.’

28 When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her privately, ‘The Teacher is here and is calling for you.’ ²⁹And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him. ³⁰Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. ³¹The Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go out. They followed her because they thought that she was going to the tomb to weep there. ³²When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.’ ³³When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. ³⁴He said, ‘Where have you laid him?’ They said to him, ‘Lord, come and see.’ ³⁵Jesus began to weep. ³⁶So the Jews said, ‘See how he loved him!’
            

The Insider and the Outcast

 

John 4:7-19

 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, ‘Give me a drink’. (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, ‘How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?’ (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.)^* Jesus answered her, ‘If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, “Give me a drink”, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.’ The woman said to him, ‘Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?’ Jesus said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.’ The woman said to him, ‘Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.’

 Jesus said to her, ‘Go, call your husband, and come back.’ The woman answered him, ‘I have no husband.’ Jesus said to her, ‘You are right in saying, “I have no husband”; for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!’ The woman said to him, ‘Sir, I see that you are a prophet.

Our Bible story for this week's Canterbury!

Thursday, 6 p.m.

Student Center 163

 

Canterbury today!

ULM Student Center 163

5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

President Garrett Boyte is in charge of today's meeting because I am at a Clergy Day. I will see the Bishop and do my best to get an answer from him about being celebrant at our outdoor Eucharist in October!

Garrett has your copies of the book we are studying, "Encounters with Jesus," by Timothy Keller. He also has money to buy food.

In addition, please discuss the mission trip in December. If you are all good with the idea of going to connect with St. Anna's in New Orleans, I need to start making arrangements. Please pick dates for us to be there that include a Sunday so we can worship with the folks at St. Anna's and that also include a day for us to do a work project in NOLA.

I'll see you next week!

 

The Skeptical Student

The story for this week's Canterbury@ULM meeting:

Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael

43 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, ‘Follow me.’ ⁴⁴Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵Philip found Nathanael and said to him, ‘We have found him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth.’ ⁴⁶Nathanael said to him, ‘Can anything good come out of Nazareth?’ Philip said to him, ‘Come and see.’ ⁴⁷When Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him, he said of him, ‘Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!’ ⁴⁸Nathanael asked him, ‘Where did you come to know me?’ Jesus answered, ‘I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you.’ ⁴⁹Nathanael replied, ‘Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!’ ⁵⁰Jesus answered, ‘Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these.’ ⁵¹And he said to him, ‘Very truly, I tell you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.’

Tonight!

Tonight

6 p.m.

Student Center 163

Ready, Set, Go!

We will meet this week:

Thursday

6 p.m. in the SUB

I am working on a room in the Student Center. If I have one by Thursday, I'll post it. If not, we'll meet at a table across from Einstein's. 

We have much to plan. I need to request Bayou Park for our outdoor Eucharist ASAP, so be thinking about when you want to do that.

Please remember your friends are welcome. I have ordered a book for our fall semester study and will introduce it Thursday.