On Our Future In Christ

My knowledge of that life is small;

The eye of faith is dim:

But it’s enough that Christ knows all;

And I shall be with Him.

 

Richard Baxter – AD 1660

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United Church Links

Here are some new links:

United Church of Canada Foundation

The United Church of Canada’s Website

And of course, for some great content, stay right here on St. Andrew’s United Church of Chateauguay’s website.

 

Looking back … our 170th Anniversary

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This item was proposed by Mr. George Christie, who provided a scanned version of our 170th Anniversary Memory Book. Click here or on the image to the left to view the booklet …

Output from Microsoft Publisher

The issue here is how to output, for example, a newsletter created in Microsoft Publisher. One the one hand, we want to be able to create a nice physical copy in booklet form with all the pages in the right order after being printed and assembled. On the other hand, we would like to be able to produce output in pdf format with all of the pages in order. This second format could be used to email to members of the community, or to go on the website for interested members and visitors.

Fortunately, this challenge has been responded to in the form of a youtube video generated by a group called effective church communications. The video is called “How to Create a Booklet and Share it as a PDF”.

Poem – E.M. Winter

I do not ask that He must prove

His Word is true to me,

And that before I can believe

He first must let me see.

It is enough for me to know

It’s true because he says it’s so;

On His unchanging Word I’ll stand

And Trust, till I can understand.

 

Quoted from Streams in the Desert – August 31st   (3 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

He Giveth More Grace

He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater,
He sendeth more strength when the labours increase,
To added affliction He addeth His mercies,
To multiplied trials His multiplied peace.
 
When we have exhausted our store of endurance,
When our strength has failed ere the day is half done,
When we reach the end of our hoarded resources,
Our Fathers’s full giving is only begun.
 
Fear not that thy need shall exceed His provision,
Our God ever yearns His resources to share;
Lean hard on the arm everlasting, availing;
The Father both thee and thy load will upbear.
 
His Love has no limit, His grace has no measure,
His power no boundary known unto men;
For out of His infinite riches in Jesus,
He giveth and giveth and giveth again.
Author: Annie Flint
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Red 2 – Summer 2013

Sophie and I saw RED 2 at the Cinema Carnival this afternoon and it was well worth it.  The scene where St. Andrew`s is involved in the movie was clear and well worth it and shows Bruce  Willis in the pulpit and a few people in the pews and a couple of shots outside when they walked down the steps after the funeral as well as a clear picture of the whole  outside of the church.

There was thunder and lightning outside and pouring rain, but we were cool and comfortable inside and didn’t care, until we got outside.   If you like action and good acting and comedy this is a terrific movie.  I give it 5 STARS out of 5.  – Rick Cessford.

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CS Lewis – Surprised by Joy

“You must picture me alone in that room at Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England”

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Isaiah 43:19 KJV

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Recommended by Craig McAlpine

Isaiah 40:31 KJV

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Recommended by Alice McAlpine