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Midweek Newsletter: Wednesday, January 31, 2024.

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    NARTHEX NEWS WEEKLY EDITION January 31, 2024   FROM THE NEWS DESK OF FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH LEBANON, INDIANA 128 E. Main St. ~ Lebanon, IN 46052~ (765)482-5959 https://www.lebanonfpc.org ~ office@lebanonfpc.org   In the midweek newsletter this week: ~ Reminders ~ Quarterly Communal Luncheon ~ Celebrations ~ She Moved! ~ Fabulous Feb. 14 Fun! ~ Lent Soup Supper & Service Series ~ Time for Tea in February ~ PPM Update ~ Weekly Devotional & Prayer Room     Reminders: Live & Learn : Live & Learn will resume Saturday the 13 th , meeting at 11:30 in the church library, lunch included. Communion Sunday is this Sunday. Quarterly Communal Luncheon is Sunday, Feb. 11 th . The main course will be a delicious poppy-seed chicken casserole. Will you please bring sides and desserts? No need to sign up – just bring yourself and your dish to share. We hope you can come! Celebrations : Happy celebrations to a really grea

We Are Prophets

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OT Lesson: Deuteronomy 18:15-20 (NRSV) The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet. This is what you requested of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said: ‘If I hear the voice of the Lord my God any more, or ever again see this great fire, I will die.’ Then the Lord replied to me: ‘They are right in what they have said. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put My words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command. Anyone who does not heed the words that the prophet shall speak in My name, I Myself will hold accountable. But any prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, or who presumes to speak in My name a word that I have not commanded the prophet to speak—that prophet shall die.’ NT Lesson: 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 (CEB) Now concerning meat that has been sacrificed to a false god: We know that we all have

Midweek Newsletter: Wednesday, January 24, 2024.

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  NARTHEX NEWS WEEKLY EDITION January 24, 2024   FROM THE NEWS DESK OF FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH LEBANON, INDIANA 128 E. Main St. ~ Lebanon, IN 46052~ (765)482-5959 https://www.lebanonfpc.org ~ office@lebanonfpc.org   In the midweek newsletter this week: ~ Reminders ~ Celebrations ~ Gourmet Seekers ~ PPM Update ~ Weekly Devotional ~ Prayer Room     Reminders: Live & Learn : Live & Learn will resume Saturday the 27 th , meeting at 11:30 in the church library, lunch included. Caring Sunday is this Sunday. The following is a list of items currently in need: ·          Apple juice   ·          tomato juice ·          mandarin oranges ·          crackers ·          mixed fruit cocktail ·          canned chicken ·          spam ·          canned pasta Celebrations : Happy celebrations to a really great crew. We love each one of you. We hope your year is exciting and new, and that you remember God loves you! Ha

Sharing the Load

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OT Lesson: Numbers 11:4-30 (NIV) The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, ‘If only we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!’ The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin. The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a hand-mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into loaves. And it tasted like something made with olive oil. When the dew settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down. Moses heard the people of every family wailing at the entrance to their tents. The Lord became exceedingly angry, and Moses was troubled. He asked the Lord, ‘Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? What have I done to displease You that You put the burden of all these people on me? Did I conceive all these people? Did I gi