United Church of Christ in Medfield

Thought for the Day

[S]urely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is?  Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth?  If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly.  But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding.  In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.  The rats are always there in the cellar, but if you go in shouting and noisily they will have taken cover before you switch on the light.

—C. S. Lewis

Thought for the Day

Christian ethics is not a matter of discovering what’s going on in the world and getting in tume with it.  It isn’t a matter of doing things to earn God’s favor.  It is not about trying to obey dusty rulebooks from long ago or far away.  It is about practicing, in the present, the tunes we shall sing in God’s new world.

—N. T. Wright

Sunday’s Prayer

Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.