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• Visit Gulf Cove United Methodist Church for special Christmas programs of music on Sunday. The Festival of Lessons & Carols program will be performed at the 8 and 11 a.m. traditional services and the 9:30 a.m. contemporary service. Bring song into your Christmas season! Gulf Cove UMC, 1100 S. McCall Road, Port Charlotte, just south of the Myakka River on Route 776. 941-697-1747
• Gulf Cove United Methodist Church invites you to one of four candlelight services on Thursday: 3 p.m. midday Holy Communion service; 5 p.m. contemporary service for the whole family; 8 p.m. traditional worship service; or 11:30 p.m. Holy Communion meditative service. Masks are mandatory. Please call 941-697-1747 to reserve your seat(s). 1100 S. McCall Road, Port Charlotte.
Faith and Reason
How To Make It In America By Howard Siegel on December 18, 2020 at 3:23 PM Who was Joseph? Here is what we know: He was the 11
th son of Jacob and the first son of Rachel. Just as Rachel was Jacob’s favored wife, Joseph was Jacob’s favored son. His early dreams of superiority angered his jealous brothers to the extent they tossed him in a pit and later sold him down to Egypt as a slave. A combination of good looks and sharp wit got him thrown in jail. His reputation as a dream interpreter rescued him from imprisonment and elevated him to second-in-command over Egypt. Pharaoh changed his name from Joseph to a more acceptable Egyptian name-
Faith and Reason
“Dreams Are For Those Who Sleep”. . .What About Visions? By Howard Siegel on December 11, 2020 at 1:06 PM
Is there a difference between dreams and visions? Is a dreamer a visionary, or a visionary a dreamer? The lyrics of a 1970 song proclaim, “Dreams are for those who sleep.” The biblical Book of Joel 3:1 reads, “And afterwards I will pour out my spirit on all humankind. . . . The old shall dream dreams and the youth shall see visions.” The scientific community suggests, “A dream is a construct of our own perception actuated by experiences we receive and partake within. A vision, however, is a reception of a foresight or insight of the future or change.”