Thursday, May 19, 2011

Sunday, May 15, 2011

SHORT FILM: Simple Gifts-The Shaker Hymn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwH6-QmvM5c

EASTER 4-Every Good Gift

THE COLLECT.  
O ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men: Grant unto thy people, that they may love the things which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

THE EPISTLE.  S. James 1. 17
EVERY good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.  Of his own will he brought us to birth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.  Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.  Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and residue of wickedness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.