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8A Daily News – Saturday, January 12, 2013 Religion Faith &Worship The Epiphany Voices of Faith I don't express my faith in words; are actions enough? The Kansas City Star (MCT) CHOOSE YOUR OWN PATH The Rev. Duke Tufty, pastor of Unity Temple on the Plaza, Kansas City, Mo.: I don't know. That is something you and only you can decide. Do you feel as though your actions are enough? If so, they are. If not, they aren't. Many religions are full to the brim with do's and don'ts that usurp a person's right to choose what is best for them. I have heard too many preachers standing in public atop their soap box, shouting out orders for me to follow. The Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule and perhaps a few other statements should be followed whether one is religious or not. But all the other doctrines and dogma should be adhered to only if a person really feels good in his or her heart about doing them. Other than law enforcers, no other person has been given authority over you to dictate what you think and feel. No matter what robes and stoles one might wear, what golden staff one might carry or lofty perch one might preach from, that person is no closer to God than you and knows less how you should live your individual life than you do. God is Spirit. The very essence of your being. Spirit is life force, consciousness, love and wisdom, all of which are as present in you as anyone else. Turn within for the personal direction you seek and you will find it. INTEGRATE THE TWO The Rev. Justin Hoye, pastor of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Kansas City, North: There are many indicators in Scripture that actions, over words, provide a stronger expression of our faith. In one striking passage, Jesus Christ asserts that not everyone who says to him, "'Lord, lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will" of God the Father. (Matthew 7:21) At the same time, words are not a negligible component, an accessory that can fall away as actions increase. Just as we long to hear "I love you," and not simply experience this truth by acts of love, so it is important that actions do not completely supplant the articulation of faith. Actions and words are crucial if our faith is to be understood as integrated and find the fullest expression. Perhaps the strongest indicator that we yearn for a full expression of the two — words and actions — is in the very act of the Incarnation: the Word becoming flesh. For a Christian the most gracious sign of God's love for us is not simply the spoken word, but the Word moving in space and time, experiencing our sorrows and joys, including death and the promises of new life. Our greatest joy is the reality of the Word taking flesh in history. In the same vein, our world hungers for an expression of faith that is the integration of actions and words. Send your questions for our panel of religion columnists to Helen Gray at The Star, 1729 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64108. Send email to hgray@kcstar.com. The best Epiphany story I know is the one about how nearly five hundred churches in the greater Sacramento area banded together for what they called the Season of Service. It kicked off last year right around the federal holiday commemorating the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leaders identified service projects from feeding the hungry to cleaning up public parks and senior citizens' yards. These projects – great and small – took place all over the region and involved many thousands of Christians serving their communities as part of the run-up to the Luis Palau Festival held in mid June. After the festival drew more than seventy-five thousand participants – including many thousands who met the Lord Jesus for the first time – the churches launched another season of service to span the months following the evangelistic crusade. The same scenario replays in Tehama County each year with LIFT Tehama, a project in which people in need receive everything from hot soup to canned goods to warm clothing for the winter. In Shasta County the Good News Rescue Mission has been a nationally recognized point of light for nearly two decades – with thirty-five years of successful service prior to that – for feeding and housing the desperate and for operating a major league recovery program into the bargain. FAITHworks is a regional ministry specializing in helping the dependent become independent, whether through finding work or being provided transitional housing. These ministries are smaller scale – because Tehama County is on a smaller scale – but, like their Sacramento counterparts, organizers depend on the cooperation of the Body of Christ. And, like their Sacramento counterparts, they lead many of their clients to life in Jesus Christ. No – the season for our personal response they do not serve in order to prosely- we do better to focus on the three parables of Matthew 25. The tize – they serve because story of the bridesmaids who Christ gave His life to and wait upon the Groom – the for their clientele. But faithful ones trim their wicks where doors open they and come prepared with share the Gospel for the enough oil to last – speak very same reason. They more about Him than about serve the Lord Who first themselves; yet it takes their served them and so express faithfulness to make that Epiphany moments in their statement. The investors in lives. His Kingdom – the one who Epiphany is a difficultdoubles the five talents and to-pronounce Greek word the one doubling the two talthat means to manifest or James ents respectively – speak volshow forth someone or umes about much more than something. In Christian tramoney, and again their makdition it runs from January ing the statements them6 until the beginning of selves is what gives them the Lent. The events associated power of the Lord to be manwith this season are the visit ifested in the making. But the of the Wise Men to the Baby Jesus, the Baptism of Jesus, and clearest statement of the meaning of the transforming of water into wine at a Epiphany may be reserved for the wedding in Cana of Galilee. In each of parable of the sheep and goats. Only in the story of those who fed these events the Lord of Life has already been born but His presence is Him when He was hungry and clothed not widely evident. The Wise Men Him when He was naked does He alert the national government to the speak the ultimate, "Come, you who birth in Bethlehem and worship and are blessed by my Father; take your serve the Baby with costly gifts. The inheritance, the Kingdom prepared for Baptism and the wedding are public you…" in Matthew 25:34. The Epiphany season is about manevents in which Jesus manifests His humility before God and His power to ifesting the transcendent glory of the transform lives by doing what He sees Lord Jesus Himself. But as the 3rd His Father doing. The jury is in follow- century martyr named Lawrence said ing these manifestations of His identity. – just before being roasted alive – the But of far greater concern to Him is glory of Christ is found in the people that we be doing in His Name what we who give Him glory. We give it in worsee Him doing. Our service manifests ship and service to Him and His. or shows forth His identity with greater James A. Wilson is the author of clarity than this or that miracle. Living As Ambassadors of We associate the scriptures of the first two or three chapters of each of Relationships and The Holy Spirit and the Gospels with this season more the End Times – available at local often than any other, but if we want to bookstores or by e-mailing him at wrap our hearts around the meaning of praynorthstate@charter.net. Wilson GodTalk Obama to use Bible from first lady's family for swearing-in WA S H I N G T O N (MCT) — When President Barack Obama is sworn in at the White House on Jan. 20, he will place his hand on a Bible from Chicago, one the first lady's father gave his mother as a gift in the 1950s, inauguration officials said Thursday. What officials called the Robinson Family Bible was a Mother's Day present in 1958 from Fraser Robinson III to his mother, LaVaughn Delores Robinson, the officials said. The late grandmother of first lady Michelle Obama was the first AfricanAmerican manager of a Moody Bible Institute bookstore and turned to the Bible regularly, according to the Presidential Inaugural Committee. LaVaughn Delores Robinson, a Baptist, was "quite scholarly when it came to Scripture," the first lady's brother, Craig Robinson, wrote in his 2010 book, "A Game of Character." She was born in 1915 in Chicago and died in 2002 in Bellwood, Ill., according to Megan Smolenyak, a genealogist who has studied the heritage of Michelle Obama, whose middle name is LaVaughn. LaVaughn Robinson worked at a few Moody Bible Institute locations in Chicago. The official swearing-in, on a Sunday, will precede the large-scale, oath-taking ceremony at the Capitol the next day, when President Obama will use two other Bibles, one atop the other. He'll turn to the Lincoln Bible, as he did in 2009, when he became the first president to use that Bible since President Abraham Lincoln did so for his swearing-in March 4, 1861. Obama also will use a Bible that was the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "traveling Bible," used to prepare sermons and speeches. The Jan. 21 swearing-in falls on Martin Luther King Day. Tehama County Church Directory HOYT-COLE CHAPEL OF THE FLOWERS 816 Walnut St. - Red Bluff FD 652 Red Bluff.... This directory sponsored by: Red Bluff.... RED BLUFF AUTO ELECTRIC INC. 1055 Main St. - Red Bluff 527-5170 Los Molinos.... Cottonwood... ABUNDANT LIFE FELLOWSHIP — 21080 Luther Rd. — Pastor J.E. Heitman 528-2499 — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM & 6PM OUT OF THE BOX MINISTRIES-COWBOY CHURCH — 585-3070 Tehama District Fairground, Bull Sale Barn –– Wednesday 7:00PM –– Sunday 10:00AM ANTELOPE HOME FELLOWSHIP(SBC) — Berrendos School — 401 Chestnut St 200-4112 — Pastor John Bohrer — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:45AM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — Jefferson & Hickory St. — 527-0372 The Rev. Beth Hoyt — Worship Service 11:00 AM, Sunday School 9:30 AM, Child Care Available COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Sherwood & Josephine — 384-2656 Coordinating Pastor Nancy Pharis-Curie—CLayM Pastor Ray Watkins — WORSHIP 11AM FOURSQUARE CHURCH — 2400 Rhonda Rd. Rev. Paul Shrum — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM MILL CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH — HWY 99E and Taft St., 384-1564 Pastor Carl DeBiase — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM & 6PM APOSTOLIC ASSEMBLY — 1321 Nelson Dr., Red Bluff. — 527-8541 Pastor Rudy Cepeda — WORSHIP — Sunday 1:00PM & Friday 7PM PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD — 370 Kimball Rd. — 527-6346 Pastor Mike Cox — WORSHIP — Sunday 11:00AM SPIRIT OF LIFE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD — 25235 Orange St. — 384-0100 Pastor Richard Tucker — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM BETHEL ASSEMBLY OF GOD — 625 Luther Rd. — 527-0445 Pastor - David Blythe — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM & 6PM RED BLUFF COMMUNITY CHURCH — 1920 Park St. Pastor Stan Kolbert — SERVICES — Sunday 9:30AM — 282-2248 Corning... CALVARY CHAPEL — 12375 Paskenta Rd. — 527-8219 Pastor Gilbert DeLao Jr. — WORSHIP — Sunday 9:00 & 11:00 am CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — Antelope-545 Berrendos 529-2506 — Bishop James Beeman — SERVICES Begin Sunday 11:00AM CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — Red Bluff-545 Berrendos 527-7012 — Bishop Earl Wintle — SERVICES Begin Sunday 9:00AM COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 598 Round -Up Ave. 527-4203 Pastor Dr. Paul Wright — WORSHIP — Sunday 9AM & 6PM CORNERSTONE CHURCH OF GOD — Hwy. 36, Jorgenson 527-9210 — Pastor Roy Duggins — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM & 5PM RED BLUFF GOSPEL ASSEMBLY — 836 Washington St. — 529-9909 Pastor John A. Partsch — WORSHIP — Sunday 1:30PM - Wednesday 7PM RIVERHOUSE CHURCH Pastors John & Connie Christenson Meets Saturdays at 6 pm at Red Bluff High School Cafeteria SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH — 515 Main St. — Father Joyle T. Martinez MASS — Saturday 5:15, Spanish 7PM — Sunday 8:30AM, 10:30AM, Spanish 12PM CHURCH OFJESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — Marguerite & Blackburn — Bishop A. Daniel Drum — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Hickory & Madison — 527-4688 Pastor Dan Woolery — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHRUCH — 720 S. Jackson — 527-3733 Pastor Jon Spoolman — WORSHIP — Saturday 10:45AM FIRST CHURCH OF GOD — Jackson & Luther — 527-5717 Pastor Rod Thompson — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:15AM SHEPHERD HOUSE OF PRAYER — 601 Monroe St. 529-5350 — Pastor Brent Kohler — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:00AM FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE — Johnson & Hickory — 527-3361 Pastor Jesse Morris — WORSHIP — 10:30 AM ST. PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — Jefferson & Elm — 527-5205 Rev. Maryly Adair — Sunday 9:30AM, Holy Eucharist Rite II FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH — 585 Kimball Rd. — 527-5083 Clyde Brandt — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM SUNRISE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP — C.B.A. — The corner of Cedar & Jackson — 527-6818 Pastor Byron Shaw, Pat Hurton — WORSHIP — 10:50AM — Bible Study 9:30AM FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 525 David Ave. — 527-5754 Pastor Nancy Pharis-Cure — WORSHIP — Sunday 11:00AM TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL — 8529 Placer Rd., Redding 243-5726 — For service dates & times — 529-9246 LAKE CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY CHURCH — Lake Club — 347 6970 Jim Bredow, Pastor — WORSHIP — Sunday 8:30AM-10:15AM LUTHERAN CHURCH, ST. PAUL — Jefferson & Elm — 527-3414 Pastor Dallas D. Dubke — WORSHIP — Sunday 8:30AM & 11AM NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH — 1625 Johnson St. — 527-8134 Pastor Vern Milliken — SERVICE — 10:00AM NEW HOPE FOURSQUARE CHURCH — 925 Walnut St. — 528-0642 PastorS Steve and Linda Priest — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM — Youth, Thurs. 6:00 PM NORTH VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH (Ind.) — 345 David Ave — 527-0543 WORSHIP — Sunday 10:50AM NUEVA VIDA — 11841 Hyw 99W — Red Bluff — Spanish-speaking Pastor Freddie Villasenor — WORSHIP — Sunday 11:00AM OPEN VISTAS AWARENESS CENTER — 900 Walnut St. — 529-9285 Rv. Tresha Wing — SERVICE — Sunday 10:00AM CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1418 South St. — 824-3603 WORSHIP — Sunday — 10:30AM CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1440 Yolo St. — 824-4333 David King, Minister — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM & 6PM THE SALVATION ARMY — 944 Walnut St. — 527-8530 Major Kit Wetter, Pastor — SERVICES — Sunday 10AM & 11AM GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF RED BLUFF — 22630 Antelope Blvd. —530-727-7344 Pastor Carl Miller — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30am AM at Antelope School BETHEL CHURCH — 1520 East St. — 824-0175 Ron Cottingham, Pastor — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM SABBATH COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN — 705 So. Jackson St. — 529-1890 Pastor Ron Largent — WORSHIP — Saturday 10:45AM FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — 501 Pine St. — 527-4361 Pastor Bruce Cloutier — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:15AM GATEWAY BAPTIST CHURCH, IND. FUND. — 12830 Glasgow Dr. — 527-2964 Pastor Jeff Eldred — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM & 6PM BELIEVERS CHURCH OF GOD — 783 Solano St. — 824-6502 Pastor Dan Steigmn — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:00AM TRINITY MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 20920 Hampton Rhodes Drive — 528-8668 Pastor Loren Browning — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:45AM - Wednesday 7:00PM CORNING FOURSQUARE — 404 5th Street — 824-5776 — Sr. Pastor John Gehrung WORSHIP — Sunday: adults 9:15, 10:30 AM — Tues.10AM prayer meeting FAMILY BIBLE CHURCH — Marin & Pear Sts. — 824-0989 Pastor Joycel — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:45AM & 6PM FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — 506 Colusa St. — 824-3490 Pastor Chris Fissori — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:15AM — Sunday School 9AM FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 1421 Marin St. — 824-5739 WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 824-5535 — Marguerite & McLane Pastor Howard Sanborn— WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM GOOD NEWS LIGHTHOUSE — 520 East St. Pastor Ben Rorie — WORSHIP — Sunday 11 AM — 824-0175 HARVEST CHRISTIAN CENTER CHURCH OF GOD — 1006 6th St. Corning 824-2091 — Pastor Michael Sharp — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:00AM IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH — 824-5879 — 814 Solano St. Father Juan Manuel Ponce — MASS — Sunday 10AM, 12:00PM - Spanish Dairyville... CONE COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH — 11220 Hwy. 99E — 527-2329 Coordinating Pastor Nancy Pharis-Cure — CLayM Pastor Chris Bauer —WORSHIP — Sunday 9AM El Camino... COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Hwy. 99W — 385-2314 Pastor Nancy Pharis-Cure — WORSHIP — Sunday 9:30AM SHADY REST FULL GOSPEL CHURCH — 7211 Hwy. 99W 385-2155 — Pastor Andrew Dalson — WORSHIP — Saturday 7PM Gerber... BAHA'I FAITH OF TEHAMA COUNTY — 385-1091 Prayer meetings Fridays 7:30PM Brickyard Creek Apartments FAITH HOPE LOVE MINISTRIES — 21941 Chard Ave. 385-1431 — Pastor Ina Driggers — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM GERBER BIBLE FELLOWSHIP — 301 Samson @ Ventura 385-1718 — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM Manton... MANTON COMMUNITY CHURCH — Forward Rd. — 474-5156 Pastor Michael Stiener —WORSHIP — Sunday School 9:30 Sun. 10:45 Paskenta... PASKENTA FLOURNOY BIBLE CHURCH — 13140 Round Valley Rd. Pastor Doug Maitia — Sunday 10:30AM — 833-0557 Platina... ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA MONASTERY — Begum Gorge Rd. Abbot Herman — LITURGY — Sunday 8:30AM Rancho Tehama... TRUTH TABERNACLE — 285 Gilmore Road, Red Bluff — 527-5533 WORSHIP — Sunday 1:00PM - Sunday School 9:30AM MT. OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCH — 341 Solano St. — 824-5530 Pastor Dallas D. Dubke — WORSHIP — Sunday 9AM COMMUNITY CHURCH (Non-Den.) — 585-2526 WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM UNITED CHURCH OF GOD — 645 Antelope Blvd. Suite 13 — 824-3657 Pastor Herb Vierra— WORSHIP — Saturday 11:30 AM NEIGHBORHOOD FULL GOSPEL CHURCH — 901 South St. — 824-2323 Pastor Ken Killinger — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:50AM & 6PM CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRIES — 585-2975 Pastor Don Luke — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM/6:00PM VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP — 738 Walnut St. — 527-2449 Pastor Steve Igarta — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY CHURCH — 824-3426 Pastor J.R. Gonzales — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:00AM - Sunday School 9AM Tehama... OLIVE BRANCH BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP — 565 1st St. — 824-3661 — SERVICE — Sunday 10:30 AM ASSEMBLY OF GOD — Third St. — 384-2603 Pastor Walter Bright — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH — West & Butte — 824-2153 Pastor Jose Torres — WORSHIP — Saturday 11AM ST. STANISLAUS CATHOLIC CHURCH — 824-5879 Corner of 4th & D — MASS — Sunday 8:00AM - English ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — First & Marin Sts. — 824-4979 Rev. Diana Lueckert — CHURCH — Sunday 11AM Vina... WALNUT GROVE CHRISTIAN CENTER — RHEMA Bible Church 435 Round Up Ave. — 527-9065 — Pastor Michael Ragsdale — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM ZION CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — 836 Washington St. 529-1836 — Pastor Joshua John McKim — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:15AM Bowman... COMMUNITY CHURCH — Bowman Rd. & Landes — 347-6130 Pastor Mark Lugg — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM Capay... COMMUNITY FRIENDS CHURCH — 4TH & MOLLER AVE. — 865-2806 Pastor TONI BROWN — WORSHIP — Sunday 9:30AM VINA COMMUNITY CHURCH — 5th & D Street — 839-2340 Pastor Larry Peterson — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM