6 February MARK 5

welcome

Thank you for joining us on-line. Some of us at OCC are meeting in-person, some are meeting on-line.

  • God calls all of us into his presence;
  • calls us to be together with him and with one another;
  • calls us to wait with and for him;
  • calls us to serve & bless others – those who are part of God’s kingdom and those who have not yet responded to God’s grace.

OCC is meeting on-line – that’s right here;

  • we are also meeting Sunday morning in-person @ 10:ooam;
  • OCCKids: K to Grade 5, Grade 5-8;
  • Our nursery space is also available;
  • & then Sunday evening, 6:30-7:30pm we meet to pray.
  • Youth gather at OCC @ 7:30pm.

If you are coming to worship with us in-person, we remind you of a few details:

  • You still need to register… the link is available each week on the home page or you call OCC (705.329.2139).
  • We need to maintain distancing in our building.
  • We need to wear a face-covering in our building.
  • At this point, we cannot serve refreshments, but you are welcome to bring your own coffee/tea/water. For the comfort of others, please do not remove your face-covering until you are in your seat.

As you prepare to watch our service video, we encourage you to take a few moments…

  • get your coffee or tea, settle in, be still…
  • take 2 or 3 deep breaths… in and out… breathe,
  • invite the Lord to make himself present with you as you watch – he is with you – it’s just that often we are not aware that he is.

Here is the service for Sunday, 6 February 2022.

Sunday 6:30-7:30pm

Join us on-line 

 

 

 

 

Youth

Sunday Night @ 7:30pm @ OCC

Spiritual Practices

Don’t forget to download (and begin to read) the New Testament reading plan.

You can also get the guide sheet for listening – resting – soaking in God’s presence here.

 

LIFEGroups

Online LIFEGroups are starting up again.

Wednesday @ 8:00pm
Thursday @ 7:00pm

into the text MARK 5

TEXT

Read all of Mark 5

THEOLOGY

Jesus is a demon chaser and liberator—and he is also a trouble maker.

  • He is not afraid to journey to the margins of decent society and find the destructors and the self-destructors.
  • And everyone is uncomfortable when he makes the insane asylum no longer necessary.
  • This remarkable passage not only teaches us compassion and hope for the obsessed and depressed, the cutters and crack-crazed, but also the need to provide gracious re-entry for the healed to the realm of the “sane.”

Jesus is a healer – and messes up schedules

  • Jesus heals, but it’s not on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • Notice in both instances the care and tenderness of Jesus:
    • he calls the woman who was haemorrhaging “Daughterv34 – a term of affection he uses nowhere else.
    • right after raising Jarius’ daughter he “told them to give her something to eat” v43.

POETRY

Credentials by Daniel Berrigan

I would it were possible to state in so
few words my errand in the world: quite simply
forestalling all inquiry, the oak offers his leaves
largehandedly. And in winter his integral magnificent order
decrees, says solemnly who he is
in the great thrusting limbs that are all finally
one: a return, a permanent riverandsea.

So the rose is its own credential, a certain
unattainable effortless form: wearing its heart
visibly, it gives us heart too: bud, fullness and fall.

ART

casting out of demons from the gerasene demoniac – image from a medieval manuscript

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the healing of Jarius’ daughter – Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Portsmouth

 

 

 

 

 

healing of a woman with a haemorrhage – Roman catacombs 300-350