{"id":3606,"date":"2022-11-03T13:13:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2022-11-03T13:13:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:13:35","slug":"september-24th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/?p=3606","title":{"rendered":"September 24th, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/5a0e521f-ff7e-42c0-901e-b52a705e14f9.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br><br><strong>St Alban&#8217;s Episcopal Church<\/strong><br><strong>Bolivar, Missouri<\/strong><br><br><strong>Saturday, September 24, 2022<\/strong><br><strong>&#8220;There was a rich man&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><br><br>                                 <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/9124a8fa-5f2b-49c0-97bc-7dd4b3a30d5e.jpg\" alt=\"\">                         <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/ed08d52f-cdb7-4cfe-b824-007231579b83.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br><br>Despite a late frost, a long cold, rainy spring and then the burning heat of a very long summer, the fig bush\/tree that Ruth Lewis planted is bearing actual, and delicious, tiny figs!\u00a0\u00a0<br><br><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/33d1f444-b62e-4c55-8c60-ef30cdc3999b.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br><br><strong>Luke 16:19-31<\/strong><br>If you think this parable is a proof for the existence of heaven and hell, or that the rich man was an unbeliever and the poor man a saint, I would like to invite you to come and see what the text in its context, (which includes last week&#8217;s reading and the verses in between them,) is actually about.<br>Remember, this is a Jewish parable told by a Jew to Jews. Christians wrote it down later, remembering it. But among Jews of the time, only Pharisees, who were already upset with Jesus, believed in &#8220;heaven and hell&#8221; &#8211; in the &#8220;resurrection of the dead.&#8221;\u00a0<br>That ought to help you re-think the usual interpretation of this passage!\u00a0<br><br><br><strong>Adult Class<\/strong><br>Tomorrow the 9:30 adult gathering will begin the book,\u00a0<br><strong>After<\/strong>, by Bruce Greyson, MD. There are 3 copies in the parish hall for those who want them. But\u00a0<strong>Amanda Whatley<\/strong>\u00a0says it is also available on the hoopla app for free to those who have a Polk County library card.\u00a0\u00a0The question about what happens when we near death, and after death is perennially interesting.\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Alban&#8217;s Episcopal ChurchBolivar, Missouri Saturday, September 24, 2022&#8220;There was a rich man&#8230;&#8221; Despite a late frost, a long cold, rainy spring and then the burning heat of a very long summer, the fig bush\/tree that Ruth Lewis planted is bearing actual, and delicious, tiny figs!\u00a0\u00a0 Luke 16:19-31If you think this parable is a proof [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3607,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions\/3607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}