A Family Wedding

We enjoyed being with my sister and all the Glover family for their first daughter's wedding this past weekend. We are definitely looking forward to their next 9 weddings....this one set the bar pretty high on the "souther style" hospitality bench-mark. Esther married Greg Norman. The wedding was held in The Stanley House in downtown Marietta, a restored antebellum home, the perfect setting to welcome all Greg's family and friends who came down from Chicago. We really enjoyed being with all the Glover and Nettles family and meeting Greg's family. My sister made the wedding cake! It tasted almost like a pound cake with peach filling...yumm yumm.

Communion on the Moon

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2009/07/20/communion-on-the-moon/ Monday, July 20, 2009, 1:08 AM Joe Carter Forty years ago today astronaut Buzz Aldrin made history by being the first man to take communion on the surface of the moon. Eric Metaxas relates the remarkable tale: The background to the story is that Aldrin was an elder at his Presbyterian Church in Texas during this period in his life, and knowing that he would soon be doing something unprecedented in human history, he felt he should mark the occasion somehow, and he asked his pastor to help him. And so the pastor consecrated a communion wafer and a small vial of communion wine. And Buzz Aldrin took them with him out of the Earth’s orbit and on to the surface of the moon. He and Armstrong had only been on the lunar surface for a few minutes when Aldrin made the following public statement: “This is the LM pilot. I’d like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.” He then ended radio communication and there, on the silent surface of the moon, 250,000 miles from home, he read a verse from the Gospel of John, and he took communion. Read the rest to hear how famed atheist Madelyn Murray O’Hare prevented Aldrin from reading the communion passage back to the people on earth.

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Church Unity....

Here's a link to our Sunday sermon on the topic of Church unity. July 12, 2009 Unity (Psalm 133; John 17:20-26; Phil. 2:1-4). For sermon follow-up, click here. Pray without ceasing. God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, our only Savior, the Prince of Peace: Give us grace seriously to lay to heart the great dangers we are in by our unhappy divisions; take away all hatred and prejudice, and whatever else may hinder us from godly union and concord; that, as there is but one Body and one Spirit, one hope of our calling, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one God and Father of us all, so we may be all of one heart and of one soul, united in one holy bond of truth and peace, of faith and charity, and may with one mind and one mouth glorify you; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Social Butterflies Age More Gracefully

Want to live longer and stay healthier as you age? Get out of the house and mingle. Researchers at the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago report that seniors who are more socially active are more likely to retain mobility as they age. The study of 906 healthy adults, average age 66.5, awarded points for such social activities as attending church or sporting events, eating out at restaurants, visiting relatives, volunteering, playing bingo and traveling. Every point below the average score at the study's start was associated with a 33% greater decline in overall motor function-the equivalent of five years of additional aging. That translated into a 40% increased risk of death and a 65% greater risk of disability. Even something as simple as walking speed was related to social activity: The most socially active seniors ranked in the top 10% of gait speed, while the least socially active ranked in the slowest 10%.-Archives of Internal Medicine