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THE CHOWAN HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9,2019 B3 BLESSING THE ANIMALS PHOTO COURTESY ROBERT LAYTON Pastor Malone Gilliam, of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, blesses Wingnut as owner Harriet DeHart watches Sunday during the Blessing of the Animals. The cere mony is often held the closest Sunday to Oct. 4, which is the Feast of St. Francis Assisi. Dr. Bally coming to Hertford church Will preach Oct. 16 at Got Works Community Church STAFF REPORT HERTFORD — World renowned speaker, Dr. Sherlock Bally, will preach and teach a fresh prophetic word to the masses starting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16. The event will be held at Good Works Commu nity Church, 113 Deep Creek Road, Hertford, Bally, an ordained minister is noted for his special end-times j prophecy meetings held around the globe. His passion to help others fully embrace the Abrahamic Covenant has resulted in many annual visits abroad to conventions, seminars, and crusades; as well as meetings in various political arenas with world leaders. In 2006, Bally was ap pointed the liaison be tween the pastors of North America and Is rael by the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus of the parliament of Is rael. A native of Trinidad, Bally has been in min istry for over 40 years. He attended Southern Bible College in Hous ton, Texas, with addi tional coursework at Luther Rice Seminary and International Bible Seminary. He has au thored more than a dozen books, served in many pulpits and con ducted numerous radio and television broad casts. His revelation of Bible prophecy and applica tion of end time truth has inspired thousands. Host pastor, Apostle Edna Hathaway Lawrence, and the Good Works Community Church family extends an invitation to you to join them in an evange listic outpouring of Bally’s passion to see the lost saved, the saved sent and the sent em powered. For additional infor mation, please feel free to call the church at 252- 404-9088, Ms. Joelisa Drew, church secretary, at 336-554-1733, or Pas tor Lawrence at 757404- 5304. The dancing angels Church Briefs Pastor to be Honored UTT owmanyan- ■—I gels can dance JLontheheadofa pin?” Doubtless, you’ve heard this question before, and you knew straight away that the question wasn’t meant to be taken seriously. Angels have been long dismissed from modem thought, pretty much as signed to the same waste- basket of history into which the “flat earth” and the “green cheese moon” have been thrown. At the begin ning of the modem age, in the 1600’s, some philoso phers started poking fun at the idea of even thinking about such beings. They dismissed such thinking as mere and idle speculation, about as useless as arguing over “How many angels can dance upon the tip of a nee dle?” For your information, by the way, no one in the me dieval church —- Thomas Aquinas nor any of the Scholastics—ever posed such a nonsensical ques tion. This famous (and irre sponsible) question actu ally came from post-Refor mation philosophers: the so-called Enlightenment had no room for angels or even rumors of angels: An gels were not material and thus could not be observed, experimented uppn, and defined. So therefore, in a “flat” sort of scientific worldview, they were sim ply dismissed. But the modem world, despite its technological prowess, cannot afford to be so blindfolded. There is more to reality than what can be scientifically proven or even proposed. Hope and meaning, truth and goodness and even beauty cannot be manufactured from elementary particles. To try to do so is to throw oneself deeply into the quicksand of Bunyan’s “slough of despond” (Pil grim’s Progress). Which is a good description of a his toric moment so afflicted by absurdity and nihilism. After all, the most mod em, secular (and anti-an gelic) century was the twentieth. And that century was by far the most violent and destructive this world has ever seen. Recall Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot: they had, let’s just say, a “vested interest” in there being no God, especially a Trinitarian God of Love. We would be better off with a worldview that rec ognizes angels. Realisti cally and practically speaking, they’re all around. From the time of Apostles, the Christian Tradition has emphasized angels as a necessity for belief and life. There is no place in Creation that is not without angelic pres ence. Everything in the world is “managed” by these non-material beings, even the stars, even strange numbers like pi and e and the golden ratio. In her must-read book, “A Wrinkle in Time,” Madeleine L’Engle sug gests that stars are defi nitely under the superin tendency of angels. The three older ladies who help Meg, Charles and Calvin are Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which. These ladies are really angels in disguise: Apparently, their the struggle. starshad gone su pernova in an earlier skirmish with evil, and now they oper ate as “free agents” in It turns out that this no- . tion of L’Engle’s is not so far-fetched. In the “angelic” worldview, Divine Love is accompanied by angels ev erywhere, from the human heart to the edge of the uni verse: “He shall heal the shattered in heart, He shall bind up all their wounds. He measures the multitude of stars, calling each one of them by name” (Psalm 147.34). But closest to our experi ence are the Guardian An gels. Every one of us has one, whose entire task is to help us become utterly transformed by divine love: “See that you do not de spise one of these little ones,” the Lord said in Matthew 18.10, “for I tell you that in heaven their an gels always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.” The Divine Love of the Holy Trinity'is at the very basis of all reality. Your guardian angel, whom you will see one day, is simply trying to make you real— or, to put it another way, more congment with the way things really should be, rather than the way things have gone awry. On the face of it, that sounds, these days, like mere sentimental fluff. But I suggest that the reason why it sounds fluffy is because the problem is with “these days,” not with the idea of angels. We are in a moment when people are more likely to be molded by events (and anxieties) rather than molding events by their good character. I’m afraid that the main reason for this decline is that we have lulled ourselves into thinking that we live in a material world—a world- view that is cardboard and superficial, compared with the real Creation that is of enormous, beautiful physi cal and metaphysical depth. In his first inaugural ad dress, Abraham Lincoln mentioned the idea of an gels. It was, as we all known, a time of crisis and chaos, when everything seemed to be falling apart, and when the notion of an gels was more than senti ment and fluff. “The mystic chords of memory,” he said, looking toward the way things should be, “will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched ... by the better angels of our nature.” These days, what’s needed is a better view— even of angels who dance indeed to a music of splen dor and majesty, and defi nitely not bound to the head of a pin... ... abetterview, just so we can be better. Jonathan Tobias (janotec77@gmad. com) resides in Edenton, and is a lecturer in systematic and pastoral theology at Christ the Savior Seminary near Pittsburgh. A semi-retired Eastern Orthodox priest, he is also an occasional gardener di the Cupola House and sings with the Albe marle Chorale, and the Mighty Termighr- lees. Submit church items to Staff Writer Miles Layton at mlayton@ncweeklies.com. Edenton Baptist Church Edenton Baptist Church is a Cooperative Baptist Fel lowship congregation, at 200 S. Granville St. We in vite you to join us Sundays at 9:45 a.m. for Sunday School, and Worship at 11 a.m. We have a special pro gram, The Bridge, for 2nd- through 6th-graders during the worship hour, as well as Children’s Church for K-lst- graders, and nursery care. Youth, grades 7-12, meet at 5:30 p.m. Sundays. Wednesday evenings at EBC offer choir and mission groups for children ages Pre-K through 6th Grade, and Bible study for Young Adults and Adults. More in formation may be found on our website, www.edenton- baptist.org. Edenton Church of God Edenton Church of God will be in revival starting Sunday, Oct. 13 through Oct. 20. The evangelist will be the Rev. Jarred Purvis' of the Greenville Church of God. You will be richly blessed by the preaching of this 24-year-old. Ser vices are 7:30 p.m. nightly, 7 p.m. Saturday night, and 11 a.m./6:30 p.m. Sun- day(s). This will be a revival you wouldn't want to miss. Everyone is invited to come and worship with us. For more information, call 252-331-3998. Church is at 906 Johnston St. Edenton United Methodist Church Edenton United Methodist Church, 225 Vir ginia Road, has Sunday services at 8:45-10 a.m. in the Family Life Center and 11 a.m. in the sanctuary. Sunday School for all ages is at 10 a.m. each week. Nursery is available for all services. For information, call 482-3269. Faith Pentecostal Holi ness Church Join us for services at 10:45 a.m. Sundays and 7 p.m. Wednesdays. Faith Pen tecostal Holiness Church is at 1614 Virginia Road. See CHURCH, B6 SUBMITTED PHOTO Church of Deliverance, 750 Virginia Road, Edenton, will celebrate its pastor’s 18th anniversary by honoring Pastor James L. Ferebee and Evangelist Elizabeth Ferebee at a service starting at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27. Special guest will be Elder Kera Johnson, of the Bethlehem Apostolic Church of God and Christ. ^U ^ ^^^ ^ ^^ ^^^ ^0 NT I AG BUICK CADILLAC OLDSMOBILE Call Sue Bunch, 482-4418 to get your ad on this page! The CKEN I KITCHEN FRIED CHICKEN & FRESH SEAFOOD PHONE: 482-4721 Elizabeth City, NC Pontiac-Buick Cadillac-Oldsmobile “Customer is Always Right” SOUTH HWY. 17 338-2131
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