Thought for August 17, 2024

  • 1590: John White returns to Roanoke Island and finds no trace of colonists he left there three years earlier 
  • 1876: Richard Wagner's "Gotterdammerung" premiers
  • 1890: First ascent of Mt. Rainier
  • 1891: Electric starter for automobile patented 
  • 1903: Joseph Pulitzer gives $1 million to Columbia University and the Pulitzer Prize begins
  • 1945: Korea divided at the 38th parallel
  • 1946: "Animal Farm" published by George Orwell
  • 1957: Richie Ashburn foul balls hit Alice Roth twice in the same game--1st breaks her nose, second hits her on the stretcher taking her out of the park. 
  • 1969: Hurricane Camille strikes the gulf Coast--259 deaths
  • 1998: Bill Clinton admits to "improper physical relationship" with Monica Lewinsky
  • Born: Davy Crockett, Mae West, Leslie Groves [Manhattan Project], Francis Gary Powers, Samuel Goldwyn, Maureen O'Hara, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn
  • Died: Frederick the Great, Billy Fiske [1st American killed in action in WWII], Ira Gershwin
Thought:
Reading Mark 10:35-45  today. James and John, or perhaps them and their mother, have come asking for preferential treatment in the kingdom--sitting at the right and left of Jesus. The other disciples react. All have forgotten Jesus teaching on who is the greatest. Now, Jesus tells them how to be great in His kingdom.

Want to be great? Serve others. [10:43] Think about our society. Using this definition, who would be great? The trash collector, housekeeper, waiter, nursery volunteer, deacon. God's ways are not our ways. We look for greatness at the top. He looks for greatness among servants. Makes me ask, who am I serving. One of my most prized possessions is a bowl with a towel given to me by a young couple many years ago. They told me I had washed their feet in service and they wanted me to have a reminder. As I have told you, the Sunday School lesson that my 12th grade boys remember from the 1970's was the Sunday I polished their shoes in Sunday School. This morning, let's all ask ourselves who we are serving and who is serving us. Greatness in the kingdom is serving.

Blessings
Larry




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