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itfalachi warned the people not to offer gifts to God with out first offering themselves for messenger would come New Years hasalwoys been adime when we look at our re lationships with God Far far back in the distant past our an cestors started their New Year with festivities honoring whet God they thought there was and in one form or another this has continued to the present Qut because our calendar year do not coincide with the church ycar we find Iliat we have two celebrations on our hands Because we worship God as little child at Christmas we seem to think its life much to be rciigious tw weeks in row And so the New Year lands to revert to older and more pagan forms of festival with most of the customs having their roots in proChristian civ iiizutions This is not to say that New Jesus lived 1n thomtdst of warm and proicfiilrc faintly Although Cdmpilb Intonate the hometown rei atlvcs In Nararelti wcre sometimes puzzled hyliim sometimes skeptical hi Iiim andssomcdmes critical of Him The IoliowlngIs the second in fiverpart Christ mus series dealing wltn ole kinsmcn of Christ By GEORGE CORNELL AP Religion Writer Like intermittent scenes clipped from film reel the poignant domestic drama un folds it shows Jesus in the Queerned clan midst of large closehail and The home folks didnt al ways understand Him and were sometimes critical But it was fervdtily affec fionate tribe thereEin the up land village of Nazareth ins eluding at least 51hattduzen members of Jesus own age vigorous brood growing up like olive shoolsarnund the table as the Psalms declare Young and oldthey clung together even1whan disagree ling They sought to shidd Jesus in that told Thats the prTitecllvelyFinsulatlng pulseiof Hannah families but responsibility extends beyond tllerefuge even though it gray strain the tornforting ES Jesus once saithA mansfoe labs those of his own house Ito Its an aching tensi tray it in His ease swiftihriet glimpses interspersed Mans Resp iise To God In that largerobligation succession of spenospor throughout the gospelrac to witness against all Irany grcssors lialachi l7t They had robbed God by re fusing to admit their disolt WEEKLY MEDITATION New Years Thoughts Years is had We and our pur itan strains are inclined to lose track of the joy of Christianity One of malls real assets is his ability to laugh at his own ser iousncss New Years can be time of reassessment Resolutions are good and useful things if treat ed rightly and not mnde into idols in themselves We some times overempilasizo the calam ity of one fali from grace to the point where the sin of dog matic rigidity is greater than the sin we have resolved against Above all Resolutions can be evil when one tries to keep them without support not only does God want us to keep them and is willing to help us in the task but we also find that without IIis support we are quite power loss to keep them So that the soccer or stairs Family Of Jesus counts showing both the strong attachments of tilat Davidii clan and also the painful pull of duty beyond it Scene familiar episode it took place in Jesus my hood on one of those tribal pil grimages to Jerusalem for the Passover celebration merry festive trip which do vont economicallyable Jews made each spring Big families formed cara vans for it relatives from the er it was weeklong holiday outing including the young when they reached 12 That year Jesus went along for the first time 0n the way back to Galilee ney before Jesus was missed halt whirlof inquiries in conversation You anxious Fathers housei meaning Scripture Coordination to stroll litfl same region travelling togetlp so large and companionahiy mixed was that family throng that it had gone days jour and noanxious Joseph and Mary hauled back alone to the city For days they searched without rest Fi nally desperate and worn out they found film on Colonnad ed temple porch with group of learned scholars engrossed lielieved but annoyed at IthevtlistreSSHciiad caused them his mother demanded Son why have You treated us sotBehold your father and have heenlooking for Jesus looked at them with earnest appeal How is it Vthatyou sought me Did you not know that lrnlstbe in my They didnt understand Vllis dies eluded them baffled em si bedience by failing to present the expected tithes and offer ings by making imperfect un worthy sacrifices ialaehi 3279 if the people returned to only resolutions worth making are those which are in the first place Gods will for you and me This should make us very cou tious in ollr choice of resolution So the best kind of resolution is that which involve other people Some of the host exe ampleo on these The Gold en ftllie Luke 631 Love others This is the hind oi iovo thatputs the othcrs wellbeing ahead of your own The joy of being alive in Gods creation This is for others because it is such an infectiousjoy The planning with others heit fin ances or family life or what ever And always rerhcmher that He said as you did it to one of the least of those my brethren you did it to me hlny God grant you ills toy in the coming year Knit Ienccd them Their eyes cloud ed they hugged the boy and let it go It was the last recorded epi sode in which Marys upright older husband Joseph tig ured Tradition says he died shortly after rd Scene it He came to His own home and His own pcir pie received Him not the gospel of John reports happened after the outlying towns of Galilee had stirred wide attention Returning to Nazareth He was invited to read synagogue has captives been fulfilled in your earsf him Irnmhis simple barefoo this Familiarity with Him penter the son or Mary all not Hissistas here with us phases of his ministry in the services He chose trench nnI passage from the prophet Isaiah The Spirit of the Lord anointed me to preach good news to the poor to proclaim release to the to set at liberty those who are oppressed He rolled up the scroll add ing Today this scripture has ahe townspeople knowing boyhood and as an ordinary maker of plows and yohes were shocked by his monu mental claim Is not this Jo scphs son they whispered Where did this man get all family glazed their eyes with CyniCISm Is not this the car brother of James andJoses and Judas and Simon and are Amid the vskeptlcism He Ianced them further saying that those face to face with sGiit ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By AlhedIBuescher Him in obedience God would return to them with blessings and the abundance they lack ed and longed for Still some complained Malachi mots Pilgrims Meet At Peace Bridge BUFFAID NY Alt marchers in an interfaith pi cgrimagc for Vietnam reli planned to cross the Peace Bridge from Buffalo to Fort Erie 0nL at noon today car rying packages of medical suplt plies for North and South Viet naln About 350 persons from New Ycrit state nearby suites and CETO Channel from 100 to 400 min New Years morning Ex UMBARD Fluent Stuart Ilamhlen Singing Rambo nie Himlhnrd Family singers The Cathedral Quartet The Cathedral Choir and Chorus putter Elton THE CATHEDRAL OF TOMORROW ALSO WATCH CKVR CHANNEL JZ00 100 pm SUNDAY lan HOURS EXTENDED Drinking hours in New Zea ds hotel bars were recently extende from the traditional pm closing to 10 pm FIRST CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SI Vince St The righteous should continue Rev Van Dyk BA at so for in the time of lifting Pastor God would remember and re ward them hlalaehi 3510 OIISIIIP GOLDEN 133T Malachi 110 Canada attended preliminary meeting of the pilgrimage in church here Thursday About 75 persons then took part in an allnight vigil near the Peace Bridge WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN 170 Steele Street TMMI rm Rnlpn htlclfenlio BA 31 organist hfra Norman Tuck 930 AM NEW vanns SUNDAY CHURCH SCHOOL AND DIVINE WORSHIP Sermon WALK WITH GOD Nursery reunites Available visitors are always welcome 51 loan VIANNEY CHURCH Baldwin Lino III Innislll 7208001 SUNDAY moses mo AM 045 Alli 1130 Alf ASSUMHION am awnnr SUNDAY lilAss 945 AM 1100 AM CIIIIUE Piliiil CHURCH or CHRIST Grove Cook Sunday 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