Holy Rollers to perform in Pagosa Springs
The Holy Rollers, a band including Catholics and Protestants focused on praise and worship music, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 17 at Pope John Paul II Catholic Church, 353 South Pagosa Blvd., in Pagosa Springs.
The Holy Rollers Band has six members. People may purchase a hamburger before the Mass at 6:30 p.m. and desserts will be available at intermission. Beverages will be provided. The concert will benefit the Catholic Food Bank.
For more information, call 731-5744.
Lutheran church announces new pastor
The Congregation of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 2611 Junction Creek, announces the ordination and installation of its new pastor, Ben Delin, a 2013 graduate of Concordia Seminary of St. Louis.
The church will host a reception at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. The ordination and installation will begin at 7 p.m.
For more information, call 247-0357.
Rick Warren returns to pulpit after son’s suicide
LOS ANGELES – Nearly four months after his son’s suicide, popular pastor Rick Warren has returned to the pulpit at the Southern California megachurch he founded.
Warren took the stage at services July 29 at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., with wife, Kay Warren. They were greeted with standing ovations by their congregation.
It was the first time Warren had taken the Saddleback pulpit since his 27-year-old son Matthew shot and killed himself April 5.
In the sermon, first in a series called “How To Get Through What You’re Going Through,” Rick Warren said he had the perfect role model for his struggles. He said, “God knows what it’s like to lose a son.”
Warren said he and his wife, who have worked to remove the stigma from AIDS, would now seek to do the same for mental illness, which their son struggled with all his life.
Hymn writers won’t change lyric for Presbyterians
BREVARD, N.C. – The popular hymn “In Christ Alone” won’t appear in the new hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) because hymn writers Keith Getty and Stuart Townend refused to change the lyrics.
Mary Louise Bringle, who chairs the Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Songs, writes in The Christian Century that some committee members objected to the line that says, “On that cross as Jesus died, the wrath of God was satisfied.”
She says they asked Getty and Townend if the lyric could be changed to say “the love of God was magnified.”
The hymn writers wouldn’t allow it. Getty has said they wrote “In Christ Alone” to tell “the whole gospel.”
Bringle writes that most committee members didn’t want the new Presbyterian hymnal to suggest that Jesus’ death on the cross was an atoning sacrifice that was needed “to assuage God’s anger” over sin.
Herald Staff and Associated Press
