da "backstage" crew is ready
Pastor Erin setting up the cross
The Greeters do their thing!
Service is about to begin
Welcome - Pastor Kevin
Announcements - Jessie
Special Volleyball Announcement - Sarah
Special CROP Hunger Walk announcement
Tithes and Offerings - Anne
Pastor Kevin introduces today's special testimony
Fiona W. sharing her special story
Scripture Isaiah 61:1-8
Pastor Kevin reading scripture
Pastor Kevin making a point
quote from Gretchen Rubin's "The Happiness Project"
Scripture Psalm 16-5-11
Closing prayer
Worship - Susan's Team and communion
Benediction - Pastor Kevin
SERIES: UNDER THE OIL OF GLADNESS
TITLE: Justice Made Happy
TEXT: Various
SYNOPSIS: Much fuss has been made parsing the differences between joy and happiness. Biblically, the difference does not appear to lie between joy and happiness as much as understanding from where it comes, from discerning between legitimate and illegitimate forms. For the Christian, joy and happiness find their source in Jesus as a gift of life, to be enjoyed with gratitude and service in the presence of a joyful and happy God. Certainly not everything in God's kingdom makes us feel happy, just as not everything that makes us feel happy belongs to God. But when happiness, like joy, finds its source is Jesus, it can also be of the deep, abiding kind that makes life enjoyable to live and love. If the problem with cynicism is that it offers critique without solutions, then justice is about offering solutions that will make others lives happier, more livable, and more productive - including our own. Gretchen Rubin in her book, The Happiness Project writes: "One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself." Thus, one of the links between justice and happiness.
SYNOPSIS: Much fuss has been made parsing the differences between joy and happiness. Biblically, the difference does not appear to lie between joy and happiness as much as understanding from where it comes, from discerning between legitimate and illegitimate forms. For the Christian, joy and happiness find their source in Jesus as a gift of life, to be enjoyed with gratitude and service in the presence of a joyful and happy God. Certainly not everything in God's kingdom makes us feel happy, just as not everything that makes us feel happy belongs to God. But when happiness, like joy, finds its source is Jesus, it can also be of the deep, abiding kind that makes life enjoyable to live and love. If the problem with cynicism is that it offers critique without solutions, then justice is about offering solutions that will make others lives happier, more livable, and more productive - including our own. Gretchen Rubin in her book, The Happiness Project writes: "One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself." Thus, one of the links between justice and happiness.
