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Our Pastor, The Reverend Bob
Reese
Welcome! And thanks for visiting our
site!
Hello Friends,
So, how is your love life? Last Sunday (8/22)
we made it clear that, in this instance, the question has to do
with "the
first and greatest commandment" to "Love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your
strength and with all your mind" (LK
10:27, NIV). Joan Gray, a recent Moderator of the Presbyterian
Church (USA) asked it this way, "How has your intimacy with God
changed over the course of the last year?" It’s a wonderful question
that we don’t ask often enough.
We are asking the question afresh because ...
well, we don’t want to just live where we land, and as ours is a
living love, we won’t. We’ll rise up in the strength of this God
given love and make every effort to grow closer to the Lover of Our
Souls. I loved how these snippets of famous love letters make this active
nature of love clear (found at – Famous
Love Letters) No, nothing has
the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and
will last as long as our lives. Adieu, there is nothing that I will
not brave for your sake; you deserve much more than that. —
Voltaire
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- You have touched me more profoundly than I
thought even you could have touched me - my heart was full when
you came here today. Henceforward I am yours for everything. — Elizbeth
Barrett Browning. I already
love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you
that which is eternal and ever precious - your heart, your soul.
Beauty one could get to know and fall in love with in one hour and
cease to love it as speedily; but the soul one must learn to know.
— Leo Tolstoy
I’m not sure how mature these loves were or
how long the flames of passion had been burning. But we all know
this, for a love to survive over time, it needs to be tended
and nurtured. So today let’s adapt the question; What are we
doing to care for our love, to preserve and nurture its
vitality?
We are continuing a "Lord, Make My Life a
Miracle" sermon series and as we do, Sunday bulletins and our
website will soon have a summary of activities and disciplines that
you may chose from (or inspire your own imagination) that might help
you fan to greater flame your love for God. I hope you'll check them
out and consider how God would like to work with you to deepen your
intimacy with God.
God loves you and this world without
reservation. May God help us to return and share that love without
reserve.
God's great love be with you,
Pastor
Bob |
1915 North Swan Street
Silver City, NM 88061
(575)
538-3513
Sunday Worship Schedule
Every
Sunday
10:00 - 10:30am Fellowship Time
10:30
am Traditional
Worship
2nd and 4th Sundays
9:00
am Contemporary
Worship Service
Worship -- in both traditional and contemporary
forms
Small Group Opportunities
Various Small Group Studies
Choir
Fun ‘N Squares
Deacons
United Campus Ministry
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