Discussion of Christmas Celebration
Riverside Covenant Church -- West Lafayette, IN
Life together.
Our Christmas Eve worship service will be at 6:30PM on Wednesday, December 24. This will be a family service. Activity bags will be provided for children and the service will be broadcast in the Welcome Center if children need to be outside the sanctuary.
We had an awesome weekend of fellowship with the students! We started with a Friday night JH guys movie night-we played a little ping-pong, I totally lost which was a huge hit to my ego, but still alot of fun-then we watched Goonies, rather we made fun of the special effects in Goonies (I still think it’s a pretty cool movie, but I can see how it doesn’t stand up to movies made 2 whole decade
Fear, it has been said, is a primary emotion. That is to say that it is one of the basic and fundamental emotions we feel as humans in response to situations that seem beyond our control and beyond our ability to cope. In December of 2008 we do not have to use our imaginations to conjure up such situations, rather the current condition of the US economy provides the ready example. We may be facing the loss of a job or the potential loss of a job or someone close to us may be facing it. If we have not lost a job, nevertheless, we may be facing a very uncertain future in terms of our financial security and capability. Various things we believed had a certain value such as a home or a retirement plan, now have much less value and it is not clear when or if these things will regain the value they once had. And, the precise meaning of these things for our everyday lives is, once again, uncertain. It is thus not hard to imagine what it means to experience fear.