Volume 2, No. 3
March 13, 2002
New addition to our Website
- we have just added a growing list of recommended reading to the
website (
http://www.crosstiesministries.org/reading.asp ) Listed are books
that are linked directly with
Amazon.com . This enables our supporters and readers to obtain
information about the books and to purchase them simply by clicking and
linking to Amazon. Your purchases from the links on this page will help
support CrossTies. CrossTies receives a commission paid in the form of Gift
Certificates, allowing us to acquire and distribute other books. If you click
on a link below, you will also see books recommended by Amazon. These books,
if purchased, are not credited to CrossTies. If you would like CrossTies to
receive credit for other purchases at Amazon, please use the Search box at the
bottom of the page.
Following are a listing of the books as they appear on the
website. We will be adding others from time to time. Check back. We also
welcome suggestions to add to our list from our readers. Drop me a note.
Certain carefully selected Links
will be added to the website in the near future. We invite suggestions
from our readers as well. Again, drop me a note.
Update on Reclaiming the Sabbath
at Resurrection Lutheran Church, Spring, Texas. As reported last month,
we have consistently had some thirty members of the congregation attending the
training classes. We have now pass the half-way mark. The training will
be completed in the second week of the Easter season. At that point, the
Elders of the congregation, together with the pastors, will be choosing a
core-group of 12-15 who will continue to meet to process what has been
presented and to make decisions about how to utilize the material for the
other members of the church.
We at CrossTies and the Elders at Resurrection initially decided that this is
not simply another program. It is a process that requires prayerful meditation
upon the Scriptures, considerable prayer and mutual sharing. Out of this
process we all believe the Holy Spirit will lead us to new and fruitful ways
by which the members of the congregation can begin to reclaim the important
lessons and guidance in the Scriptural teaching about the Sabbath.
The process will continue through the coming year 2003, while Resurrection's
senior Pastor Steve Sohns is on a four-month sabbatical. If you or
anyone you know would like to learn more about the process or would like to
introduce it to your congregation, please drop me a note.
Our Annual Meeting will
be held this Saturday at Resurrection Lutheran Church, Spring, Texas, 9:30
a.m. At this meeting members will receive a reports on the past year's
activities and our financial status. Members will also elect certain
members of the new Board of Directors. You are most welcome to attend.
Following the general meeting, the Board of Directors will have their monthly
meeting.
In a few weeks we will celebrate again that Queen of all Christian Feasts, the
Resurrection of our Lord Christ. May that celebration and all that it means
bring unending joy to you and to those whom you love as you celebrate in the
knowledge that He lived and died for us and rose again on the third day.
Dr.
Alvin H. Franzmeier
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