TNL UPDATE

Gentlemen:

Greetings!   I write on the eve of Super Tuesday -- and if the "election season" is any indication, that traditional discipline of the Lent -- prayer in private (see the Sermon on the Mount, Mt. 5-7) -- is most needed.  

In other matters (thankfully unrelated to the heated political rhetoric), I'll be busy for the next two Wednesdays (3/2 & 3/9) with board meetings.  Thus, we'll meet next on Wednesday, March 16th!  

See you soon!

Your Scribe,

PRDunklau

Psalm of the Day Plus Lunch at The Nicodemus League !

Gentlemen:

Join us for the Psalm of the Day plus Lunch at TNL today!

See you at noon in the Sybil Hopper Room!

Your Scribe,

PRDunklau

We're BACK!!!

Gentlemen:

For your kind words, prayers, and understanding during a time of grief/celebration in my family, I thank you.  I am grateful beyond words that my God knows death AND resurrection.  That said, the promise of the Gospel surely applies to my dad, Rupert, and to all of us.  "He who believes in Me even though he dies yet shall he live," says Jesus.  "And he who lives and believes in Me shall never die."  Faith clings to this promise and others -- and, believe me, we've been crying and clinging and celebrating and clinging of late to a great degree!

We will meet tomorrow, 17 February, at the usual time.  We'll consider -- and perhaps even begin -- 30 DAYS TO A BETTER MAN from our friends at www. artofmanliness.com.

As usual, there will be music, conversation, and lovely edibles from The Egg & I.  (I'll be putting in the order around 7am tomorrow morning, so, if you'd like, fire me an email at prdunklau@gmail.com if there's a particular sandwich you'd like!

We are smack-dab into the season of Lent -- a 40 period of penitential reflection.  Of course, there's more to that, and I'll try to provide some helpful commentary tomorrow.  Along with written devotional materials, the 30 DAYS TO A BETTER MAN program and BEN FRANKLIN'S "VIRTUES" DAY PLANNER offer certain actions you can take each day that easily fit into the three Biblical disciplines for Lent oulined in our Lord's Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7).    More on that tomorrow!

I hope you can be with us!  Friends are always welcome!

Your Scribe,
PRDunklau

Dad...thanks for everything!

"30 DAYS TO A BETTER MAN": Tomorrow at The Nicodemus League!

Gentlemen:

I hope to see you tomorrow, 3 February 2016, 12:00 Noon, at the Sybil Hopper Room here at First Presbyterian. Church!  Nourishment for spirit, mind,  and body await you!  Sandwiches from The Egg & I  will be available.  If you'd like, send me an email tonight (prdunklau@gmail.com) with your sandwich preference, and I'll place the order early tomorrow.  It will be ready when you arrive at FPC!

Alright!  It won't be long and the season of Lent will be upon us.  Lent is many things, but it is always forty days!  Forty corresponds to the number of days Jesus Christ was tempted in the wilderness.  For hundreds of years, these Lenten days have been kept as a time of special reflection.  I'm proposing that, along with the increased emphasis on private reflection/meditation, we tackle something offered by our friends at The Art of Manliness.  It's a 30-day project designed to help men be better -- better at being men!  I'll be discussing it tomorrow, and I'd be glad to send you a personal copy of the project in .pdf file form. 

I am going to give the project a try during Lent, and I invite you to join me.  Perhaps we might hold each other accountable and share our progress or lack thereof.  I think it will be fun.  Some of it we will need to modify a bit, but it shouldn't be a problem.  I'll stop now before I get too far ahead of myself!

Peace and strength of spirit, mind, and body be with you all!

Your  Scribe,

Paul R. Dunklau