Winter of Oz
Coming up November 16th & 23rd, we’ll explore the Scriptures with a little help from the songs from the Land of Oz! Then, on the afternoon of November 22nd, we’ll be renting out a local theater for Heritage to go to the movies together and see Wicked: For Good, the conclusion of last year’s movie portrayal of the Broadway musical. Stay tuned for details!
November 16: Good or Popular?
Luke 1:26-38
Mary, the mother of Jesus, chose the good over the popular. Do we always have to make that choice? Is there a way to both be good and be popular too? Is choosing the good worth the risk to our popularity? The Wicked Witch of the West had to make some similar choices herself.
November 23: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Romans 8:18-28
It’s no surprise that “a prayer” can mean talking to God just as much as it can mean that chances of success are slim. At the last minute the quarterback tosses a “Hail Mary.” At the buzzer a basketball player tosses up “a prayer,” taking an unlikely desperation shot from half court. Or maybe things are so hopeless that you “haven’t got a prayer.”
What hope do we have? Do we vaguely hope that something good might come our way from “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” or is there something solid on which we hang our hopes?
