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i ks26 y i economist sunlstouffuille tribune saturday may 26 2001 briice larson in- his book dare to live now tells the story ofjdesert pete in a baking powder can wired to the handle of ah old well on a long seldomused trail across fee amargosa desert pete left this message this pump is working well as of june 1932 1 put in a new sucker washer that ought to last five years but thewasher dries out and the pump has got to be primed under the white rock i buried a bottle of water out of the sun cork end markham missionary church evangelical missionary church of canada 5438 major mackenziedrive east markharh ontario 9052945081 sunday may 27 2001 900 am- early worship service 930 aim christian education hour 1 030 arru- coffee fellowship 1100 am lateworship service 600 pm welcome tea for castor mrs holmes please call churchy office for details of services other programs of the church up theres enough water to prime the pump but not if you drink some first pour about one quarter and let her soak to wet the leather then pour in the rest medium fast and pump like crazy youll get water the well has never run dry have faith when you get watered up fill the bottle and put it back like you found it for the next feller a church to call home 945 am sunday school 1100 am worship service front lines foot races and farm yards pastor mark lowrie 600 pm life builders 8176 mccowan road gust south of hwy 7 markham on tel 9054757695 home of centennial child care centre j i v fh a fa on- the acccmoi d tie qomen jubilee o ondtittdixuiojj 6bff4ma1 195i 3001 paaukptued and uve jbiamand jubilee ajj ondinatian ojj rev mantiatw qumd iz bleei pjt tmiw- 3001 fisuedt in reaideice r memteiot st rfuiuitb the apatite paftiblt and fcuendi ctke paubli and fubucrtixmb anje inviied ta coy taaetueb to- oeb 1 v ptaie and tuanhi to- qoct j- cew gcmclehuiiedmc 200 dont go drinking up the water first prime the pump with it and youll git all you can hold a persons faith would be revealed by what he or she would do coming to that well half dead from thirst with an empty canteen faith is not so much a theological issue for discussion as it is something on which our entire life depends faith involves three things first it has to have an object in this case coming down that e arched desert trail one would ave to put his trust in an unknown person named desert pete to keep from drinking the water in the buried bottle not an easy thing to do it sounds like he s telling the truth but theres no guarantee that hes not a wideman mennonite church suni 272001 l v 945 christian education i v 0 worship s 1 km north of major mackenzie on hwy 48 church office 6406219 for a ride call 6404185 6 practical joker so the first ingredient of faith is trust in someone or something based on evidence but not on infallible proof secondly faith involves risk if you drink the bottled water you wont get any from the pump so its necessary to risk the water on which your life depends in order to get a more adequate amount thirdly faith requires working at it deseit pete told it right pump like crazy we all employ faith every day in marriage in business and in daily relationships we are required to place trust in others face the risks involved and work at seeing the desired results christian faith- follows the same pattern the object of faith is the unseen yet faithful god there are risks and work involved because god requires obedience to his will in order for his promises to be realized in our lives but the results are truly amazing have faith submitted by paul fawcett standbewsjjnitep chjorgh 32 mainst n markhairi -290351- rik sunday service 1000 am ascension sharing a presence a power as time goes by we as a race make amonishing discoveries about the nature of the physical world and about the depth of its mystery as well and so it is thai as we journey in faith it becomes difficult to believe in old physical models of religion like the threestoried universe with heaen above the blue of the sky and hell somewhere underfoot there are those who would insist that an article of faith is simply to be believed without question regardless of what our reason tells us within the story alice in wonderland alice protests to the queen i cant believe that but thequeen has a ready response cant you try again draw a long breath and shut your eyes it just takes practice why sometimes i have believed as many as six impossible tilings before breakfast we have entered dial period of time on the church calendar in which die ascension is recognized some people think that the ascension could be one of diose impossible tilings to which the queen refers an event dimlyunderstood by many to be the final sucking up of jesus into the sky by god somedobelicve in jesus literal ascension into a cloud some ignore the whole issue and just put out of tlieirmind die apparent conflict between church doctrine and reason others quit the church because what they perceive the church to portray is just too ridiculous but beyond all those reactions theres a real opportunity here a huge gift embedded in the story of die ascension if one breaks through the siirfaceof thestoryto mine the trutlf beneauy viewedjymbolicallythe stpryof the ascension is the promise ofupvthat we can ascend to a new levelof being by emulating jesus and heeding die wiiiofgod iy jesus was quiteclear lhatwe notivdrship him but fouovy him in his commitrrient to god andso the ascension ismostparticularlyottn storythe one all aboutgodscallt6 each one of us and our chancetb respond to such ricckbning byjgclimbingio ieyelstofr jtcspdnsibibfy and joyas we talte upour ebenezer united church corner of brimlcy stceles 9054774365 wwwebenezeruconca 1000 am worship service come and share with friendly people the lions den christian book shoppe serving your family and chujrcbi 1 17 main st north tclasos 472 8412 markham village diana whitehead bethesda lutheran church 20 union st unionville 905 4771731 near hwy 7 main o worship 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