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9:30  AM  –   Worship



Scripture & Message:  “Never Doubt God’s Goodness”

Pastor Tom Clegg

Genesis 3:1-6



Children’s Activity Time during worship

Children’s Activity Time will be available for all children ages 4 through 3rd Grade in Room 111.  Please come join us!

Infant Nursery and Mother’s nursing room are available in room 100.

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Where does that need come from?

How can it be explained?

While we, and certainly i don’t always live out justice, I do, none the less, yearn for it, strive for it, despise when it’s absent and cheer when it shows up.

I freely admit i cannot tell where this need comes from: socialization, genetics, education, religion?

I mean, if reality is that one day we all just creeped up out of the primordial ooze. You know, by just by chance. Without a soul, a creator or any trace of purpose. How can the need for justice possibly be explained? If we are all here only by chance wouldn’t the most natural desire or craving be for selfishness at all else’s expense?

In other words, wouldn’t injustice be the natural craving or desire?

If life is really about the survival of the fittest…then why does injustice hurt so much?

Is this another place where god reveals himself to us?

I dunno…but wow, it sure makes sense.

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Pastor Susan Watson

Listen to Sunday’s podcast – God is Good

PrayerPage. Westview takes prayer seriously. We pray fervently for our church family and community, and we will pray for you!

Aug 29, 2010

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I am at a loss at being able to completely understand the riddle of another person. The one I live with and experience more than anyone else is my wife. She confounds me in ways I cannot explain much less understand. Just when I think I have her figured out she surprises me with some dimension of her being that is utterly foreign to me. A life time of adventure. And now that we’re empty nesters the mystery is getting more of my attention everyday.

Then there’s the universe, what a smug notion to think that I know even something about it’s infinite expanse and infinitesimal complexity. I do know that I don’t know. That much I do know! The more I do know the more I am aware of what I do not know. A life time of exploration.

And God, of course. He invites me and defies me. I know He is knowable and I know He is so incomprehendible. Like my wife I know I may have a relationship with Him who is unknowable. I may know Him but never possess Him, never master Him, never. I chase He who chases me. A life time of pursuing the pursuer.

Seventy times seven. And then some.

I just don’t know…

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Sunday 8-22-2010 Tom Clegg

“Love Perseveres” this clip picks while Tom is decribing a white water rafting trip he took several years ago.  Listen to him describe the persevering love God has for us.

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What is this thing called love?

Pastor Tom Clegg

Love is both the central motive and supreme test for anyone who says they are following Jesus Christ. “By this,” Jesus said, “will all people know that you are my disciples; that you love one another.”

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Where is all the leisure time they said we would have if we bought their gizmos? You know what Im talking about. All those ways our lives would be easier, simpler and more care free. Has it worked for you? Do you have more ‘free time’ on your hands than you did five or ten years ago? Has all the stuff made our lives better? Has all the busyness made us closer to each other?

I asked a group of young families if they were more or less stressed these days than they were five years ago and they overwhelmingly said, “MORE!” I think I identify with them because all those promises to make life easier just seems to make it more complex and more time crunched.

Work meetings, school meetings, town-hall meetings, politics, soccer games, softball games, piano lessons, ballet lessons, band practice, football practice, clubs, organizations, e-mails, facebook messages, internet updates, chats, instant messages, text messages, skype, Blackberrys, PDAs, laptops, iPads, iPods, iPhones, iTouch, iLostCountALongTimeAgo!

Is it me? Or does the idea of adding one more thing, ANY one more thing just drive you crazy?

This is the primary reason we at Westview will always strive for the least complex and least busy-making approach to living out Christ in our community.

This is important to remember as we lean into the future together. We’re going to be talking about upgrades, transitions and changes. We may be doing some things a lit differently. And it is very easy to reject new ideas because we are all just so busy trying to wrestle with the old ones. I suggest we all embrace the opportunity to approach things from the vantage point of simplicity.

I promise, we will never add things, develop programs or organize meetings that merely produce religious busyness or in anyway waste your time. Instead we will always strive to make any and all decisions, directions and developments those which will help us live as Jesus did and nothing else.

Jesus said, “Come, my yoke is easy and my burden is light…”

I’m looking forward to the journey,

Tom

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Mostly by air.

So I read with interest the news article about the flight attendant who had had all he could take: apparently a JetBlue flight attendant flipped out after an argument with an agitated traveler last Monday, cussed the passenger out over the intercom, stole a beverage from the plane’s galley and made a grand exit down the emergency slide at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport. He has now been charged with multiple felonies by the authorities and elevated to a kind of folk-hero status by many who shrugged off allegations that Slater endangered others and instead praised him for his standing-up-to-the-man attitude.

Ok first of all, I understand just how frustrating the travel industry has become and how stressed employees and passengers alike has become so I totally believe the story. And that’s really sad when you think about. Not so much that it happened but that someone loosing their cool, endangering the lives of people in his care but worst of all
causes them to be a mini-celebrity. Did he do the right things? Of course not. Have you or I ever felt the same way? Absolutely! But worse, his problems and our feelings are really symptoms of a much greater problem: the disappearance of simple kindness and patience from our society. Everything from road-rage to internet assault and
more.

This week we’re going to be talking more about love and in particular how patience and kindness are proofs or characteristics of God’s love in our lives and essential to our faith.

Aren’t you glad God is more patient with us than that flight attendant? Don’t you think we’ve all given HIm ample reason to not be?

That’s grace.

See you Sunday.

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