"Religion is the possibility of the removal of every gound of confidence except confidence in God alone." - Karl Barth

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousandfibers connect us with our fellows; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects" -Herman Melville

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” -C. S. Lewis

 “Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The ordinary think inside of the box, the extraordinary think outside of the box, but genius thinks inside, outside, below and above the box.” -Matshona Dhliwayo

Scripture Readings 

Shirley Russell 

Old Testament:  Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18   (Link to text:  https://bible.oremus.org/?ql=603296864)

New Testament:  Luke 14:28-33   (Link to text:   https://bible.oremus.org/?ql=603296917)

Sermon:  Detachment or Focus?

Scott Starbuck

Focus: “The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self–all your wishes and precautions–to Christ.” -C.S. Lewis

“You’ve got to think about big things while doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.” -Alvin Toffler

“This is our great challenge and consolation. Jesus comes to us in the poor, the sick, the dying, the prisoners, the lonely, the disabled, the rejected. There we meet him, and there the door to God’s house is opened for us.” Henri Nouwen

"It is said that the age of a tree can be reckoned by looking at the bsrk - one can also truly know a person's age in the good by the inwardness of the repentance."

- Soren Kierkegaard

“The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.” -Sue Monk Kid