This Week At Old South Haven Presbyterian Church
Sunday, August 14 10:00am Morning Worship
Sermon: “The Goodness of Nature
Lessons: Psalm 8 Acts 17: 22-31
(second in a series of three messages on the
contribution of Celtic Christianity)
Monday, August 15 7:00pm Session Meeting
At the home of Linda Majowka,
Sunday, August 21 10:00am Morning Worship
Sermon: “the Power of Imagination”
Lessons: Genesis 20: 10-17 Revelation 4
(third in a series of three messages on the
contribution of Celtic Christianity
In light of this series on Celtic Christianity I would draw your attention to John Philip Newel’s new book “ A New Harmony: The Spirit, the Earth, and the Human Soul” published last month. Newell – a Canadian born Presbyterian and former warden of Iona Abbey in the west of Scotland- provides a book of spiritual insights that point the way to rediscovering the connectedness of everything, from the similarities shared by the world’s faiths to the tight relationship between science and spirituality and spirituality and the natural world in what he describes as a “new Pentecost”
“If we are to listen for the One from whom we have come, it is not
away from creation that we are to turn our ears, it is not away
from the true depths of our being that we are to listen. It is rather
to the very hearts of all life that we are to turn our inner attention.
For then we will hear that the deepest sounds within us is the deepest
sound within one another and within everything that has being. We
will hear that the true harmony of our being belongs to the universe
and that the true harmony of the universe belongs to us”
-excerpt from chapter one
I have just ordered the book and will share it with interested readers…once I read it!
Pastor Tom
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