<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>Forwarded:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:8px;color:#575757">From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network.</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Judy <judy_boli@ecunet.org> <br>Date:11/07/2015 10:16 PM (GMT-05:00) <br>To: Propertalk <propertalk.topic@ecunet.org> <br>Subject: [propertalk.topic] Sermon for Proper 27B <br><br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">Dear
Friends,</font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">This
Sunday’s sermon is entitled “Money” and deals with the gospel (Mark 12:38-44).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font></font><font color="#000000" size="3">Here it is:</font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">(Part 2 of 2 parts)</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">So check yourself out:</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font color="#000000">What do your closets look
like- or your refrigerator, or kids’ toys, or your CD’s?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Do you have what you need, or do you have
stuff you never use?</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font color="#000000">What do you do with the stuff
you don’t use- give it away or store it in case you might need it someday?</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font color="#000000">What would you do if you won
the lottery?</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font color="#000000">What are other pertinent
“greedy-type” questions?</font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000">One more way to check ourselves out is to listen to one of our
Christian heroes- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></font><font color="#000000">Two months before he was shot, in his “Drum Major for Justice Speech” he
described what he considered important in his life.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">This speech was also played at his funeral.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">How does your life measure up to his
standard?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">He said, “If any of you are
around when I have to meet my day......tell them not to mention that I have a
Nobel Peace Prize, that isn’t important.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000">
</font></span><font color="#000000">Tell them not to mention that I have three or four hundred other awards,
that’s not important.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Tell them not to
mention where I went to school.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">I’d like
somebody to mention that day that...Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his
life serving others.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">I’d like for
somebody to say that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">I want you to say that day, that...I tried to
be right on the war question.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">I want you
to be able to say that day that...I did try to feed the hungry.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">And I want you to be able to say that day,
that...I did try in my life to clothe those who were naked.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">I want you to say, on that day, that...I did
try, in my life, to visit those who were in prison.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">I want you to say that..I tried to love and
serve humanity.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Yes, if you want to say
that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for peace; I was a drum
major for righteousness.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">And all of the
other shallow things will not matter.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">I
won’t have any money to leave behind.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">I
won’t have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">But I just want to leave a committed life
behind.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">And that’s all I want to say...
‘if I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or
song, if I can show somebody he’s traveling wrong, then my living will not be
in vain.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">If I can do my duty as a
Christian ought, if I can bring salvation to a world once wrought, if I can
spread the message as the master taught, then my living will not be in vain.’” </font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes; tab-stops: .25in;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">For anyone who is interested, this sermon and updated
African-American wisdom statements are posted on our parish’s web site under
“Sermons & Stuff”. The address is: </font><a href="http://www.stpaulsepisag.org/"><u><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://www.stpaulsepisag.org</font></u></a><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">Blessed
preaching,</font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">Judy
Boli</font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">St.
Paul's Episcopal Church</font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">Saginaw,
Michigan</font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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