May-June 2025 Newsletter
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The Presbyterian Church 241 W Court St, Paris IL 61944 217-465-5118; FAX 463-1471 Web: www.parispresbyterian.org Email: office@parispresbyterian.org The Presbyterian Church 241 W. Court St., Paris, IL 61944 217-465-5118; FAX 463-1471 www.parispresbyterian.org office@parispresbyterian.org Steve on Stewardship “Let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will [...]
The “Exploring our Faith” discussion group meets on Mondays from 5:15 to 6:30. Each session is “stand alone,” rather than continued from last week, so please feel free to drop in any time, or just occasionally; you wouldn’t feel like you were “behind” or jumping into the middle of something. For the Nov. 20 session, [...]
LENT AND HOLY WEEK Our Lent and Holy Week worship services and activities fall between February 22 and April 9 this year, so this “cover page” may be a helpful place to have them all spelled out together. Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22 – The season of Lent begins with “Ash Wednesday” on Feb. 22. We [...]
At the back of our Old Testament is a collection of books often called “the minor prophets.” “Minor” not because the messages of those pages are any less important than the messages of the other pages of the Bible, but because they are short books. Compared to Isaiah’s sixty-six chapters or Jeremiah’s fifty-two, some of these books are only one or two chapters long. They have names like Obadiah, and Zephaniah, and Habakkuk, whom we looked at two Sundays ago. The Lectionary, that list of recommended Scripture passages for our worship services, only steers us to the minor prophets for one brief period in its three years’ worth of readings. That period is late Summer and early Fall, of “Year 3” – and that is now. So today we’re going to take advantage of this short Lectionary window of opportunity to look at part of the book by the minor prophet Zechariah. […]