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[h1]From our Song and Service
A Light to the Heights worship
Sunday, March 7[/h1]
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Bible Reading:
Isaiah 55:1-9 and Luke 13:1-9

This week we put God “in the Dock” as C.S. Lewis would say. We consider the strange notion that we can “handle the truth” of God's thoughts.

Videos:
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“I Choose to Believe”

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The tension between the need for scientific proof and the experience of faith is captured in this exchange at a grocery check-out.

“As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.” – Avram Noam Chomsky

Scene not available for embeding but here is the link to the clip at WingClips, (a new window will open).
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Henry Poole is Here on WingClips
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“You Can't Handle the Truth” from A Few Good Men

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Think of God Being “in the Dock” instead of Col. Jessep (Jack Nicholson) and we the people wanting to know “the truth”. There is some non-church language we omitted in the showing in worship.

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“Ramsey's Life is Ruined – I Failed”

From the CBS TV show Joan of Arcadia
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Clip not available on-line.

Joan knows that she failed because Steve Ramsey's life is ruined. How does God (the white haired lady) change Joan's opinion?

Remember When We Used to Forget? For most of human existence, it was a great effort to remember. Think of time and work involved in cave paintings, chiseling words into stone tablets, etching letters on parchment, or wrestling with paper files before computer records. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger in the book Delete:The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age argues that now it is difficult to forget, or "delete" in electronic terms. The default is changing to remembering everything and requiring a special effort to forget. I know someone who was a victim of an accusation years ago. Even though nothing came of the accusation, the newspaper article is still the second item that appears in a Google search on his name. Just a decade ago, that article would have been forgotten and inaccessible.

Part of what God offers us is not remembering our sins any more. I never thought of the difference between “forgetting” and “not remembering”. Not remembering seems formal and forceful compared to forgetting, like going through old digital photos or emails and deleting the out of focus images and ideas.

I hope you forget what needs not to be remembered and remember that God is more forgiving than Google.

When Forgetting is a Blessing

For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
and I will remember their sins no more. - Hebrews 8:12

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