Celtic Odyssey

John 18.33-37 (CEB; adapted): 1 33 Pilate went back into the palace. He summoned Jesus and asked, “Are you the king of the Jews?” 34 Jesus answered, “Do you ask this on your own or have others spoken to you about me?” 35 Pilate responded, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your nation and its chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?” 36 Jesus replied, “My kingdom doesn’t originate from this world. If it did, my guards would fight so that I wouldn’t have been arrested by the Jewish leaders. My kingdom isn’t from here.” 37 “So you are a king?” Pilate said. Jesus answered, “You say that I’m a king. I was born and came into the world for this reason: to testify to the truth. Whoever accepts the truth listens to my voice.” Other readings: Daniel 7.9-10, 13-14; Psalm 93; Revelation 1.4b-8 Collect: All-loving and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of t...

Sutliff 504C, Aromatic English History In 1849, H.W. Sutliff founded the Sutliff Tobacco Company in San Francisco, California as a retail store for cigars and pipe tobaccos. In 1933, Sutliff began manufacturing its own pipe tobacco, Mixture 79 . From the 1960’s through the 1980’s there were a lot of changes for the Sutliff Tobacco Company . After purchasing another company, they were bought by Consolidated Cigar Corporation (owned by Gulf and Western ). With new purchasing capital behind them, Sutliff then purchased Greenville & Winters and entered the Private Label business, a brand of pipe tobaccos found in a lot of retail spaces. In the 1970’s taste in pipe tobacco changed from a more traditional flavor to aromatic tobaccos. And in the 1980’s, the Consolidated Cigar Corporation entered the bulk pipe tobacco business with the acquisition of several companies. In the 2000’s Consolidated Cigar Corporation (then owned by the French company, SEIT) merged with Havatam...

Mark 13:1-8 (CEB; adapted): 1 Thomas Kinkade As Jesus left the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look! What awesome stones and buildings!” 2 Jesus responded, “Do you see these enormous buildings? Not even one stone will be left upon another. All will be demolished.” 3 Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives across from the temple. Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately, 4 “Tell us, when will these things happen? What sign will show that all these things are about to come to an end?” 5 Jesus said, “Watch out that no one deceives you. 6 Many people will come in my name, saying, ‘I’m the one!’ They’ll deceive many people. 7 When you hear of wars and reports of wars, don’t be alarmed. These things must happen, but this isn’t the end yet. 8 Nations and kingdoms will fight against each other, and there will be earthquakes and famines in all sorts of places. These things are just the beginning of the sufferings associated with the end.” Other re...