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Sermon of March 18, 2012–“The Fellowship Principle”
This sermon looks at Jethro, the Father-in-Law of Moses in Exodus Chapter 18:13-27. The main idea of the sermon, that people never behave exactly the way you expect them to, comes from the writings of Margaret Wheatley somewhere. And fellowship is so difficult in the church. Churches fight over small little things–electrical outlets, salt in…
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Sermon of March 11: Ryan Lucas
Dear Friends, Here’s the audio of Ryan’s sermon from Sunday. Ryan preached on three texts: Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 1:18-25; and John 2:13-22–Jesus’ cleansing of the Temple. Ryan challenges us to hear the voice of God calling us to take risks as well as to listen to others who might be struggling. I find this…
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Chalk Walk: the Life of Jesus–as seen by our Church School
Trista Lucas, our Christian Education director, came up with a great idea for Sunday’s lesson. She taught the children scenes from the life of Jesus using chalk drawings which the children illustrated themselves. Here they are! What a great idea and nice job!
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Thursday Update–March 8, 2012
Hello friends and members of Hill’s Church, This week has been a busy one around Hill’s Church. We’re preparing for worship on Sunday when Ryan Lucas will be preaching on the Ten Commandments. Ryan is a first year student at the Penn West Academy and member of Hill’s. Please come out to support Ryan in…
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Sermon of March 4, 2012–“Obscurity”
Like most people, even people familiar with the Bible, I wasn’t real sure about the figure of Mnason in Acts 21. Here’s all we know about him: “Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us and brought us to the home of Mnason, where we were to stay. He was a man from Cyprus and…
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Thursday Morning Update–March 1, 2012
Happy March everyone! Sunday is the second in our series of “The Power of Kingdom Living” which seeks to discover how to live faithful lives in our 9 to 5 world. We’ll be looking at a man from Acts 21 in the Bible who is only mentioned in 1 verse! His name is Mnason (the…
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Weekly Update: February 23
Good morning friends and members of Emmanuel Reformed Church, As we were talking about last night at the Ash Wednesday service, Lent has begun. And during Lent I will be focusing on two things for the duration that will help people with their spirituality: 1. People want an authentic, sincere relationship with Jesus Christ and…
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Sermon of February 19th–“Fly the Friendly Skies”
This sermon is basically about the tension between being ‘covered with Elijah’s mantle’ while in church and ‘running towards the chariot’ while out in the world. I don’t know that any of us live the tension very well–but it would be amazing if we could try! 2 Kings Chapter 2: 2Now when the Lord was…
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Northern Westmoreland UCC Cluster Lenten Schedule
The Old Rugged Cross: A theme for Lent Five United Church of Christ Congregations have covenanted to share their mid-week Lenten Services for 2012. All the services will be created around the theme of the familiar hymn, “The Old Rugged Cross.” All services begin at 7:30 and light refreshments follow. February 29– Host Church: Denmark…
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