ST. PHILIP’S E-NEWSLETTER(ETTE)
3 SEPTEMBER 2010
COMMENT FROM THE EDITOR
Time flies and thus only a snippet, a letter-ette today.
Enjoy the joke, enjoy the thought, enjoy the weekend, and enjoy the service.
PRELIMINARY REMINDER
Worship returns to 9.30am and 11.00am this Sunday.
PRELIMINARY ONE-LINER
After last week’s favourite festival joke (‘I went on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. Never again.’) your editor thought a start with another one liner might be appropriate.
Never respond to an anonymous letter.
or perhaps even the winner from last year’s festival.
“Hedgehogs – why can’t they just share the hedge?”
THOUGHT
Here’s something from Karl Barth, one of the theologians of the 20th century. It seemed appropriate as schools are now well underway and with many of us perhaps wishing we could be students again. We are all students.
The work of the Holy Spirit within us, by which he effects decisively and comprehensively our oneness with Christ, is faith. And faith as the work of the Holy Spirit is not a magical transformation. It is not a higher endowment with divine powers. It is simply that we acquire what we so much need—an internal doctor, a teacher of the truth within ourselves…Christ himself must give us light to believe the Gospel, which is to make us new creatures, the temples of God.
WORSHIP
The focus this Sunday is the Parable of the Sower (Mark 4). To see some first musings, check out
EVENTS
Lots going on! Join us to find out!!
JOKE
Something sent to your editor by an esteemed member of the congregation.
Or, was esteemed before this appeared…..
A Banbury senior citizen drove his brand new sports car out of the car showroom.
Taking off down the motorway he floored it to 90mph, enjoying the thrill of his impressive machine. ‘Amazing,’ he thought as he sped down the M40.
But then, looking in his rear view mirror, he saw a police car behind him, blue lights flashing and siren blaring. ‘I can get away from him – no problem!’ thought the elderly gent as he floored it to 110mph, then 120, then 130mph. But the police car kept up.
Suddenly the senior citizen thought, ‘What on earth am I doing? I’m too old for this nonsense!’ So he pulled over to the side of the road and waited for the police car to catch up with him.
Pulling in behind him, the police officer walked up to the driver’s side of the sports car, looked at his watch and said, ‘Sir, my shift ends in 10 minutes. Today is Friday and I’m taking off for the weekend. If you can give me a reason why you were speeding that I’ve never heard before, I’ll let you go.’
The old man looked very seriously at the policeman and replied, ‘Well, years ago my wife ran off with a policeman and I thought you were bringing her back.’
‘Have a good day, Sir,’ said the policeman.
Thanks Michael!!
Have a good weekend!!
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