Dear CCPC Family,

Welcome!

Frederick Buechner, the minister and novelist, begins one of his books by telling his readers how he has had a lot of dreams and that most of them have been nightmares. His father committed suicide while Buechner was a boy and he never got over it. But one day he had a totally good dream. In it, he was in a hotel somewhere and was given a room. "It was a room," he said, "where I felt happy and at peace, where everything seemed the way it should be."

As the dream went on, he wandered off to other places and did other things but ended up at the same hotel again. This time, however, he was given a different room, one that seemed dark and cramped and left him feeling the same. So he made his way to the desk clerk and explained how he had stayed in a different room earlier but couldn't remember where. The clerk said he knew exactly the room he meant and he could have it again anytime he wanted it... all he had to do was ask for it by name. So he asked the clerk what the name of the room was. The clerk said, "The name of the room was Remember."

From that moment on, as Buechner tells it, his unpleasant dreams, his anxieties and fears, lost their hold on him. For the name of that room was for him a call to remember the goodness and faithfulness of One against whom no worries or fears or bad dreams can contend.

This Sunday, as we continue our sermon series, we will be looking at some very familiar words of our Lord. "Do not worry about your life," He said. Had He left it at that we might have had cause to worry or wonder about what He said. But He didn't. He took upon Himslef the worst life could give and triumphed over it on a Cross. And if that wasn't enough, He also gave us a meal to remember Him and what He did, lest we ever forget.

So this Sunday we will do that -- we will remember Him, we will remember His words, and we will leave our worries with Him.

Gracious Lord, You teach us that life is more than food or drink or the clothes we put on or even the worries with which we contend. We would believe. Help our unbelief! Strive with us yet awhile,we pray, as we strive for Your kingdom and righteousness. In Your strong name we pray. Amen.

Donald Gordon Lewis Jr., Pastor