<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>Forwarded: Part 2 of 2</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:01/30/2016 10:03 PM (GMT-05:00) <br>To: Propertalk <propertalk.topic@ecunet.org> <br>Subject: [propertalk.topic] Sermon for Epiphany 4C <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;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">Dear Friends,</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;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000">This Sunday’s sermon is entitled “All You Need Is
Love” or “Love Makes the World Go Round” and deals with the epistle (1st
Corinthians 13:1-13).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font color="#000000">Here it is:</font></font></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; "><font color="#000000">Part 2 of 2: </font></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; "><font color="#000000">If we live our lives by God’s definition of
love, we will have good lives- if not; all the money in the world won’t make us
happy.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">How many people do you know who
go around cheating their acquaintances, stealing their best friend’s boyfriends
or husbands or girlfriends or wives, gossiping about their neighbors, getting
mad easily and not forgiving, screaming and yelling and cursing at family
members, and on, and on, and on?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">What
kind of lives do they have?</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Sure.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">They’re forever working out the consequences
of their behavior- and then they wonder why God doesn’t help them more.</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">So what exactly does this Christian love look like- this love that God
expects of us?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font color="#000000">Let’s look at 1</font><sup><font color="#000000">st</font></sup><font color="#000000">
Corinthians 13: 4-8.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><ul style="list-style-type: square; direction: ltr;"><li style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><p style="line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-add-space: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Love is:</span></p><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-add-space: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list .55in; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kind </span></p></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-add-space: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list .55in; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Patient</span></p></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-add-space: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list .55in; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Never jealous</span></p></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-add-space: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list .55in; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Never boastful </span></p></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-add-space: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list .55in; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Never proud (Do you think you’re better than
others?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you avoid discussing things
for fear you may be wrong?)</span></p></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-add-space: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list .55in; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Never rude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Are you someone who “lets it all hang out,” or do you try to be tactful
when you need to speak the truth in love?)</span></p></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-add-space: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list .55in; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Never selfish (Do you only think about yourself, or do
you really listen when others talk?)</span></p></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-add-space: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list .55in; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Never quick tempered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(“But that’s just how I am!” or “That’s how I was raised!” or “I have a
mental illness” is no excuse.)</span></p></li></ul></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-add-space: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It doesn't keep a record of wrongs that others
do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-add-space: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Love rejoices in the truth, but not in evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Gossips LOVE evil!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you gossip?)</span></p></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-add-space: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Love is always supportive, loyal, hopeful, and
trusting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-add-space: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Love never fails!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Paul ends by reminding his Christian friends that everything they have
and do will be lost in death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other
words, only what’s done for God will last, and the things that are done for God
are actions which are done in love.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">So, where are you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you still
making excuses- how you just can’t live this way, it won’t work; people will
take advantage of you, etc.?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I’m going to close with a poem that each of us must answer every day
when we go to bed and when we meet our Lord when we die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is entitled, “What Is the Gospel According
to You?”</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Are read by more than a few.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">But the one that is read most and commented on</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Is the gospel according to you.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You are writing a gospel, a chapter each day,</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">By the things that you do and the words that you say.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">People read what you write, whether faithless or true.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Say, what is the gospel according to you?</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Do others read His truth and His love in your life?</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Or has yours been too full of malice and strife?</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Does your life speak of evil, or does it ring true?</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Say, what is the gospel according to you?</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>(Leroy
Brownlow)</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-mirror-indents: yes; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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: <a href="http://www.stpaulsepisag.org/"><u><font color="#0000ff">http://www.stpaulsepisag.org</font></u></a> .</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Blessed preaching,</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Judy Boli</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">St. Paul's Episcopal Church</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Saginaw, Michigan</span></p></li></ul><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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