<html><body>Joe Parrish posted parts 1 and 2.<div><br></div><div>Here's the conclusion of tomorrow's sermon.</div><div><br></div><div>Bob</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> This
morning’s </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gospel
passage shows Jesus talking out harshly against those who would use power
against the weak in society. This morning’s verses, as countless others do,
speak to us about ensuring that everyone is treated with kindness, and charity
– another side of the compassion which prepares us for our deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Of course, we’d all rather they be
later rather than sooner in our lives. Nevertheless, none of us knows, so
today, and tomorrow, and every day, we prepare by listening to God; by speaking
with God; by acting alongside God wherever there is anything not as it should
be. We should be able to say to the people of Roseburg as well as to our
neighbours, indeed to everyone, “Let the church help, whatever your need”. And
we need to remind ourselves that the church – this congregation and every
congregation – should be standing ready to help us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> So we commit ourselves into God’s
care, trusting that we are loved and cherished, no matter what evil Satan and
the world may fling at us. And we pray, as another petition of The Great Litany
puts it:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> “That it
may please thee to strengthen such as do stand; to<br>
comfort and help the
weak-hearted; to raise up those who<br>
fall; and finally to beat down
Satan under our feet,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <b>We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></em></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><em><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></b></em><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;">God, bless us!</span></em><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"">NOTES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <i>“The Great Litany”,</i> B.C.P. page 148
ff. <a href="http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/litany.pdf">http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/litany.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <i>“Job’s
wife and Job”</i> <span style="color:#666666"><a href="http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-viewimage.pl?SID=20150929975524902&code=act&RC=46621&Row=&code=act&return=act">http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-viewimage.pl?SID=20150929975524902&code=act&RC=46621&Row=&code=act&return=act</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">3</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Br. Curtis Almquist, SSJE, “Brother,
Give us a Word” <b><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">ssje</span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">.org/<b>word</b>/</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>