Welcome to Sunday Scripture and Conversation for the First Sunday of 2025

Over Black Coffee and Gunpowder Tea

served with 

As this is the first Sunday of a new year, the scripture offering says to us..

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Isaiah 43:18 KJV

From the Methodist hymnal, “This Is A Day of New Beginnings” by Brian Wren.

This is a day of new be­gin­nings,
Time to re­mem­ber and move on,
Time to be­lieve what love is bring­ing,
Laying to rest the pain that’s gone.

For by the life and death of Je­sus,
God’s migh­ty Spir­it, now as then,
Can make for us a world of dif­fer­ence,
As faith and hope are born again.

Then let us, with the Spir­it’s dar­ing,
Step from the past and leave be­hind
Our dis­ap­point­ment, guilt and griev­ing,
Seeking new paths, and sure to find.

Christ is alive, and goes be­fore us,
To show and share what love can do.
This is a day of new be­gin­nings;
Our God is mak­ing all things new.

In faith we’ll ga­ther round the ta­ble,
To taste and share what love can do.
This is a day of new be­gin­nings;
Our God is mak­ing all things new.

Our Sunday painting is from Thomas Kincade.

For those in the ‘vortex’, stay warm and safe.
To all, have a blessed Sunday!