Everything ordered
intricate, sublime
yet everything sensitive
to your choice and mine
The world, all of creation
the tapestry, the web of life
tremors, tears,
when any thread is pulled
Consequences
big and small
often at first unperceived
choices each of us make
changing a future yet unseen
April 18, 2010
Matthew 7:24-27
Psalm 19:1-14
Responsive Call to Worship
Worship Theme: “God has given us the care of the earth”
and sermon, “One Small Change Makes a Big Difference”
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson
Genesis 1:1-31 (KJV)
with introduction about Apollo 8
reading of part of this passage
from around the Moon, Christmas 1968
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo8_xmas.html
and reference to experiments of Dr. Edward N. Lorenz
who counted the phrase “butterfly effect”,
in his research on chaos theory, studying the behavior of
dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Norton_Lorenz
the second in a series of sermons, based in part on the pastoral letter from the Council of Bishops, “God’s Renewed Creation: Call to Hope and Action,”
and the study guide, etc., based on this letter:
http://hopeandaction.org/main/
http://hopeandaction.org/main/resources/basic-documents/
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
April 18, 2010
Second Sunday After Easter
Copyright by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
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