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February 06, 2008
In Pastor's Words
This Sunday is
Friendship Sunday
Bring a friend to Sunday School and Worship this Sunday and both you and your friend will not only receive a beautiful gift, but will be honored with a reception in the fellowship hall after the worship service. How important it is to reach out to friends while we have them. Today we have, but tomorrow is never guaranteed. My homiletics professor at Denver Seminary, Haddon Robinson, once used this verse to press home just how short a time we have to see that friend or that family member and encourage them in the things of God.
Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end;
Yet days go by and weeks rush on,
And before I know it, a year is gone,
And I never see my old friend’s face.
For life is a swift and terrible race.
He knows I like him just as well
As in the days when I rang his bell
And he rang mine. We were younger then,
And now we are busy, tired men:
Tired of playing a foolish game,
Tired of trying to make a name.
“Tomorrow,” I say, “I will call on Jim
Just to show that I am thinking of him.”
But tomorrow comes—and tomorrow goes,
And the distance between us grows and grows.
Around the corner!—yet miles away. . .
“Here’s a telegram, Sir,” . . . ‘Jim died today.”
And that’s what we get and deserve in the end:
Around the corner, a vanished friend.
By Charles Hanson Towne
Why wait? Invite that friend to come with you this Sunday.
Hope to see you this Sunday and meet your friends.
Pastor Partelow
Posted by Jennifer Herrmann at February 6, 2008 11:37 AM