Vestry Meeting 5/20/2012

Our bi-monthly parish planning meeting will be on May 20^th the week following Mother’s Day (May 13^th). We’ll making plans for the summer and start of the fall. This follows our regular Sunday service and snacks.

            One of the things that I enjoy about teenagers is their immediacy. Not you can have it all today, but they want to see things happening today. Resurrection Life is about seeing it today. Having a better life with God will never happen if you don’t start today.

​Notes from the teaching series on the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion

1. Of faith in the Holy Trinity

There is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body, parts, or passions; of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness; the maker and preserver of all things both visible and invisible. And in unity of this Godhead there be three Persons, of one substance, power, and eternity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Order your tickets for Blessed Trinity Night at the Padres

You aren’t invited to the Padre’s House, but to Padres baseball. Our fellowship night will be July 6, 2012, a Friday night. This is a Special Event Night--more details next week. The game starts at 7:05pm against the Reds. Tickets are $14 (regular $20 price). Our Padre will buy a friend ticket for any of our teens who invite someone new to come with them to the game. Many of us ride the trolley as part of the evening’s entertainment. Sign up and leave a check this coming Sunday. For more info call or email Don P.

Worship Weather Report

Clear blue skies in Alpine overlooking the white clouds of the marine layer of San Diego, we started today’s service at 65 degrees.

Introduction

Defines the doctrines of the English Reformation for the Church of England and those national churches founded by the Church of England.

Found in the books of Common Prayer of the Church of England and in the USA through the Book of Common Prayer 2011.

Agreed upon by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the bishops of the Province of Canterbury and the Province of York in 1562 and finalized in 1571 being incorporated into the Book of Common Prayer.

            Prayer unites us to God. In prayer we place our soul, in our spirit, in the center of our being, into God’s hands that we may be remade into the likeness of God by grace. Each thread, each strip of our life God forms, reshapes with His grace. We come to God in prayer knowing we are unlike God, the condition of sin, our turning our own direction rather than turning to God. Prayer is a witness, a visible reality, that we want our will to be the will of God. In our Prayer we make our will to be God’s will that we might be united.

Worship Weather Report

Spring has arrived in Alpine. It was overcast and drizzly down the mountain, but above the clouds Alpine was enjoying the Southern California sunshine and another Easter Sunday! It was 65 degrees at the start of our service this morning.

         During the fifty days of Easter we are celebrating the fullness of Jesus’ Resurrection. We are celebrating that Word of God was sent to say what God intended and what the Word brought into reality. But Easter isn’t the end of God’s story. Jesus comes to each of us saying, “I have something planned for you in what I’m doing.” We still have to hear the Word of God and to be remade, replenished, brought to completion, to perfection, to be filled by the Word of God. Jesus Christ is speaking to you. Jesus is bringing His resurrection into your life.

            Easter was a great day, but it is only the beginning. The wholeness of life, the fullness of life that is in our Risen Lord, God wants that life for you. What we see in Jesus is what God wants, intends, and is working to make a reality in your life. Your life is to be a Resurrection Life.

            For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. (Colossians 1.19-20 ESV)

Worship Weather Report

After a good April shower we’re back to Alpine sunshine. The cooler than expected night (down to 39 degrees) we were basking in the 55 degree weather after the service.