PRAYERS – Jon Cook; Millie Mutka; Kathy Mayo; Barb Zima’s friends Mick, Steven and Marilyn Hummel; Gregory Bowens; Laurie Nelson; Amber Ross’s daughter Linda; Sandy Bishop’s brother Larry Barber and friend Kelly Newman; Randy & Diane Niemczyk’s daughter Julia VanAvery, niece Sarah Joda, and their dear friends, Denise Runde and Denise Hazel; Dick Volland; Valeria Hesselberg; Pastor Catie Ford, Esther Penelope Ford; Chris Markussen; Anne Verona’s sister/brother-in-law Pat & Woody Woodworth and friends Dennis Peterson and Natalie Madine; Strong’s friend Erin Molle and Kevin Miller; Debbie Cyrtmus’ mother, Rose Wicker and sister, Corrie Trittin; the Ebert’s friend Patricia Kulzick; Karen Stanton’s friends Wayne and Mary Lou Zelinski*; Joyce Leander’s cousin Laurie Nelson; Ashley Clark’s friends Keith & Becky Hernandez; the Waggoner’s sister-in-law Cheryl Busse; Karen Engels and her niece Lisa and friend Bob; Ann Carlson’s people Enid, Curt, Beth, Dana, Tom, Julie, Denny, and Troy; peace for all nations and comfort for those in distress; prayers for a safe and successful school year for all students and teachers.
PRAYER LIST PROCEDURE – Submit your prayer requests to the office in writing, by phone, by email or in person. If requesting prayers for someone other than yourself or an immediate family member, please obtain permission – unless the circumstances are public in nature.
GUESTS – if you are visiting us today, please sign our book at the entrance to the sanctuary.
OFFERING ENVELOPES – we are preparing to order envelopes. Please let us know if there are any changes. Do you need envelopes? Do you want to stop receiving envelopes? Do you not know what the envelopes are for? All of these questions – and more – can be answered by Mike Bishop at accounting@princeofpeace-er.org.
LIVESTREAM – this month we have started livestreaming only on YouTube @PastorPriceofPeaceEagleRiverW
PRINCE OF PEACE CHOIR –Rehearsal dates: Sep 3, Sep 10, Sep 17 4:30 – 5:30 pm. Come to rehearsal – stay for the movie – on Sep 10!
GOD’S WORK – OUR HANDS t-shirts -are available in the Front Office. T-shirt design is the same as years past. $10 per shirt. We have a bunch of sizes available now.
MOVIE NIGHT –Our next movie night is Sep 10 and we will be showing “Green and Gold”! What is exciting about this is we have been in touch with the director, Anders Lindwall. He sent a movie poster over to us that we will use as a door prize on Sep 10. Tailgating is an option! Anders has given us permission to advertise the movie on our sign.
SEPTEMBER 7 IS NEXT WEEK – It’s not only God’s Work – Our Hands Sunday, it is Rally Sunday! Much will happen on this day! Blessing of the quilts and our church youth will be starting their Sunday School year – we have a lot to celebrate. We are asking everyone to wear their GWOH t-shirts OR their Hearts of Fire t-shirts. If you are in need of a shirt – please contact the Front Office.
GODS WORK- OUR HANDS = SUMMER FUN – Mark your calendars:
Sep 7 – GWOHs DAY We will be blessing the quilts.
Oct 19 – GWOHs DAY- (continued) Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of WBP!
FUN FACT – My mother’s name was Mary and Sunday would have been her 85 birthday. I wanted to spend the day with all of you, but familial duties call. (Wedding in IL)
I was talking to a Catholic earlier this week and she had mentioned how the Catholic’s view Mary and asked me how do Lutherans view her? I didn’t have a great answer. Here you go.
ELCA regards her as the Blessed Virgin Mary, with this codified in the Formula of Concord. ELCA celebrates several Marian feast days. The Formula of Concord and the Smalcald Articles teach the three Marian dogmas of the virgin birth, Theotokos and the perpetual virginity of Mary. The Apology of the Augsburg Confession teaches that “blessed Mary prays for the Church”. Theologians agree that Martin Luther adhered to the Marian decrees of the ecumenical councils and dogmas of the church. He held fast to the belief that Mary was a perpetual virgin and Mother of God. Important to him was the belief that Mary and the saints do live on after death. Luther preached, taught, and argued about the veneration of Mary with a verbosity that ranged from childlike piety to sophisticated polemics. His final thoughts on Marian devotion and veneration are preserved in a sermon preached at Wittenberg only a month before his death.
Which I do not have room to share in this month’s bulletin, but will include in the email that is sent out.
Here is the Martin Luther bit from Wittenberg:
“Therefore, when we preach faith, that we should worship nothing but God alone, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, as we say in the Creed: ‘I believe in God the Father almighty and in Jesus Christ,’ then we are remaining in the temple at Jerusalem. Again,’This is my beloved Son; listen to him.’ ‘You will find him in a manger’. He alone does it. But reason says the opposite: What, us? Are we to worship only Christ? Indeed, shouldn’t we also honor the holy mother of Christ? She is the woman who bruised the head of the serpent. Hear us, Mary, for thy Son so honors thee that he can refuse thee nothing. Here Bernard went too far in his Homilies on the Gospel: Missus est Angelus. God has commanded that we should honor the parents; therefore I will call upon Mary. She will intercede for me with the Son, and the Son with the Father, who will listen to the Son. So you have the picture of God as angry and Christ as judge; Mary shows to Christ her breast and Christ shows his wounds to the wrathful Father. That’s the kind of thing this comely bride, the wisdom of reason cooks up: Mary is the mother of Christ, surely Christ will listen to her; Christ is a stern judge, therefore I will call upon St. George and St. Christopher. No, we have been by God’s command baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, just as the Jews were circumcised.”
NOTES FROM ANN: Awhile ago we received the lovely drawings and Bible verses in the mail. Initially I had some of them on the office cabinets and had framed the rest. The frames I had arranged in a sort of collage set up. But the frames fell off the wall and broke. I finally realized I could fit all of them on the office closet door. All I have to do is turn my head and I can see them together. When I was hanging them up, I told Pastor, having them right here enables me to come in and reset my mind for the day. Reading them together gives me a deep sense of peace. When you stop into the church, you’ll have to come in and try it out for yourselves!
Then – I have a story you are NOT going to believe. Well you all will because all of you believe in God Winks. Or in this case, a God Bash on the head for Burt.
Mom and Burt used to poke at each other. All the time. Burt would call her a midget and she would act all offended and throw a punch at him. A lot of tormenting happened between the two of them with a whole lot of love. My Mom LOVED Burt so much. She told me to make sure to hug him every day because she believed he was not hugged enough as a child.
After she died, a cat (“The Cat Who Shall Not Be Names” TCWSNBN) showed up 30 days to the day after she passed. And he looks exactly like a picture she had painted previously. Burt said we couldn’t name the cat, because then he would stay. (It has been 6 years now).
Until we left the farm, anytime Burt referred to Mom as a midget, a cat showed up within a week to 10 days.
Burt refused to say the word.
I joked we moved to the Northwoods because Mom couldn’t find us here and besides, how many stray cats are there in the Northwoods?
None. We have seen zero cats on our property since moving up here. Nadda, zilch, nothing. Over four years.
This past Saturday, we were at the car show in Eagle River. And we walked past a MG Midget.
Burt said, out loud, ‘oh look a Midget’. He immediately followed it up with, “The car. I’m talking about the car”. Four years later and 300 miles away – he wanted to make sure ‘everyone’ knew what he was talking about.
Okay, no big deal, right?
We returned home.
I went out to the barn to work on a project. I walked out to the barn and I saw, you guessed it, a cat!
No joke, not even 4 hours after Burt said the word for the first time in over 4 years, a flipping cat was in our barn!!!!
(1565 days we have been here – and this was the very first cat we have seen on our property)
It was a white cat with a grey tabby tail. He/she took off so I haven’t met them properly.
Burt was not amused. I am delighted.
Below is the picture Mom painted and a picture of TCWSNBN.
