Starting in the Summer 2011 we spent the following weeks preaching on:
15 weeks on Psalms
3 Weeks on Proverbs
1 Week on Song of Songs
2 Weeks on Ecclesiastes
4 Weeks on Job
While you may not have been at every sermon, please answer the following questions.
 
How do you use the wisdom literature in your own life?

Do you read these on a regular basis?

What value do they bring to the Bible?

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18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Thereforego and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the  Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  20  and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Mt 28:16-20


Events/People                                                                         
Roman
Emperors


4 bc – 30 ad Life of Jesus                                                       
Augustus 27 bc – 14 ad


30 Pentecost                                                                             
Tiberius 14-37


34 Saul’s Conversion, death of Stephen                             
Caligula (37-41)


40 Antioch Church                                                                  
Claudius (41-54)


44 Barnabas and Saul sent out


50 Jerusalem Council


64 Great Fire of Rome                                                            
Nero (54-68)


66 Paul dies                                                                              
Galba, Otho, Vitellius (68-69)


66-73 First Jewish-Roman War


70 Destruction of Jerusalem                                                 
Vespasian (69-79)


                                                                                                    
Titus (79-81)


100 John dies on Patmos                                                       
Nerva (96-98)


90-96 Jews & Christians persecuted                                    
Trajan (98-117)



1st century AD  Books
Chinese: Ban Gu: Book of Han (Hànshū)
Greek: Plutarch: Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
Josephus: The Jewish War, Antiquities of the Jews, Against Apion
The books of the New Testament
Latin: see Classical
Latin Tacitus: Germania
Ovid: Metamorphoses
Pliny the Elder: Natural History
Petronius: Satyricon
Seneca the Younger: Phaedra, Dialogues

Vera Margaret Stevens
(July 30, 1927 - June 25, 2012)

Vera Margaret Stevens, age 84 of Vernon,
passed  away on Monday, June 25, 2012 at the Shiawassee County Medical Care
Facility in  Corunna. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday,  June 29, 2012 at  the Durand Free Methodist Church, 708 S. Oak St. Durand, MI 48429. Pastor George  W. Richards will be officiating with burial to follow in  Hillcrest Memorial  Gardens, Owosso. The family will receive friends at Watkins
Brothers Funeral  Homes, Durand Chapel on Thursday from 2-4 & 6-8 p.m.
Vera was born on July 30, 1927 in Swartz Creek, the daughter of Harold and  Eva (Jenison) Beardslee.
On February 14, 1948, she married Verald Otto Stevens in Durand and together  raised 4 children. Verald later passed in 2002.
Mrs. Stevens had worked for Redmonds and Mitchell Bentley. She was a member of the Durand Free Methodist Church.
She is survived by 3 daughters: Dianne M. (Roger) Miller of Rockford, IL,  Darlene K. (David) St. John of Corunna, Debbie E. Stevens of Vernon; 8 grandchildren: Verald (Robyn) Stevens, Phillip (Hannah) Stevens, Darcy Stevens,  Sharon Stevens, Trisha (Donald) Beal, Christina Soldan, Korina St. John, Ryan  (Rachael) St. John; 8 great grandchildren: Ezra, Shayla, Tori, Jordan, Kayla,  Jeshon, Tairik, Keaton; daughter-in-law, Linda (Paul) Denny; 1 sister, June Wollard and 1 brother, Gordon (Linda) Beardslee.  She was preceded in death by her husband, V.O.; son, Richard; 5 sisters and 4 brothers.

Outline
Christ's Priesthood
Christ's Covenant
Christ's Sanctuary and Sacrifice

For the next three weeks we will being looking at Hebrews.
This week is Chapters 1-4.
Keyword: Superiority fo Christ
Outline
The Superiority of Christ's Person
    Christ over the Prophets
    Christ over the Angels
    Christ over Moses

Sunday we will be looking at Paul's short letter to Philemon.
Outline
1. The Prayer of Thanksgiving
2. The Petition of Paul for Onesimus
3. The Promise of Paul to Philemon
Keyword: Forgiveness

Paul writes this letter to Philemon, a leader in the church of Colosse, to ask forgiveness for Onesimus - Philemon's run away slave.

Paul points out that just as the Lord forgave him when he became a Christian that he should now forgive Onesimus, who under Paul's teaching is now more that a slave - a brother in Christ.

There will be a Potluck meal after church this Sunday. I will provide the Hot Dogs and Buns and topping. We will cook and eat outside, weather permitting.