August 31, 2025

 Blessings

The sidewalk may crack, but the flowers still choose to rise.

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 Call to Worship and Prayer:    II Chronicles 7:11-14

 

Hymn #690 "America, the Beautiful"

 

Offering and Doxology

 

Hymn #687 "God of our Fathers"

 

Praise and Prayers

 

Responsive Scripture:  II Chronicles 7:14-22

 14  if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

15  Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. 

16  I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

17 “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws,

18  I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.’

19  “But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them,

20  then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among
all peoples.

21 This temple will become a heap of rubble. All who pass by will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

22  People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that
is why he brought all this disaster on them.’

 

Hymn #688 "The Star Spangled Banner" 

 

 Special Music: "Back to God" by Reba McEntire

 

Sermon, "Back to God"

 

Hymn #18 "The Love of God" 

 

Prayers 

 Mary Sherwood, Don, Wava and Mike Shipley, Betty Booker - health concerns, Sherrie Thompson, cancer, Davie Warren - cancer, back, Dr. Woltemath - cancer, Lynn Handy - at home, bad back, Barb Handy - caregiver, Bev Powles - back surgery, Betty Moyer - procedure, Chris Auten - health concerns, Rich Hobbfast - Jan’s friend, not well, Lucy Roth - lymphatic leukemia, Beth’s friend), Mindy’s Dad moved to nursing home, Zane Burge - looking for employment, Damon Birkby - Hungary for work (4 months), Penny - a lot of shoulder pain, Ellie - caregiver, Linda and Ray Hendrickson - alzheimers, Unspoken and personal prayers, Katie’s baby due (Handy’s granddaughter)

 

Praises 

Birkby’s great grandchild #11, Hudson #9, 21 in.
Crops look good.

 

 September 7th: Sunday School begins

 

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Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. ~ unknown

 

 

 

 Today's Sunday Church Share...

 

 

 Picture via Pinterest

 

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Percy's Tidbit

 

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Have a great week 

Sunday, August 24, 2025

 Blessings

 

Sharing friend Marcia Little's picture and her words...

" Couldn't resist... so pretty and well-behaved that I was able to get a good picture. I've seen some Monarchs around too, but they just won't settle down for a photo shoot."

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 Sunday, August 24th, 2025

Call to Worship and Prayer: Isaiah 8:9-10

Hymn #118, “A Mighty Fortress is Our God”

Offering and Doxology

Hymn #117, “A Shelter in the Time of Storm”

Praise and Prayers

Responsive Scripture: Isaiah 8:11-22

 

 11 This is what the Lord says to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people:

12 “Do not call conspiracy everything this people calls a conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.

 
13 The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread.

 
14 He will be a holy place; for both Israel and Judah he will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare. 

 
15 Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken, they will be snared and captured.”

 
16 Bind up this testimony of warning and seal up God’s instruction among my disciples.

 
17 I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my trust in him.

 
18 Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.

 
The Darkness Turns to Light

 
19 When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

 
20 Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

 
21 Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.

 
22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.

 

Hymn #120, “He Hideth My Soul”

Special Music: “Wanted”
by Danny Gokey

Sermon, “Wanted”

Hymn #18, “The Love Of God”

 

 Prayers:
Mary Sherwood, Don and Mike Shipley, Sherrie Thompson, cancer, Davie Warren - cancer, back, Dr. Woltemath - cancer, Lynn Handy - at home, bad back, Barb Handy - caregiver, Bev Powles - back surgery, Betty Moyer - procedure, Chris Auten - health concerns, Rich Hobbfast - Jan’s friend, not well, Lucy Roth - lymphatic leukemia (Beth’s friend), Mindy’s Dad, Zane Burge - looking for employment, Damon Birkby - Hungary for work (4 months), Penny - a lot of shoulder pain, Ellie - caregiver, Linda and Ray Hendrickson - alzheimers, The Art Smith Family (Diane Birkby’s Father), Unspoken and personal prayers

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  September 7th: Sunday School begins

 

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Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. ~ unknown

 

 

 

 Today's Sunday Church Share...

 

Picture via Pinterest

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Percy's Tidbit

 Pray before you overthink.

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Have a great week 

Sunday, August 17, 2025

 Blessings

 

I enjoy snapping a picture of the church now and then. Notice the two rays of light at the window.  Interesting. 

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 Good Morning!

 

 

 Sunday, August 17, 2025

 

 Call to worship and prayer Isaiah 4: 2-6

  Hymn #98  "Great is Thy Faithfulness" 

  Offering and Doxology

  Hymn #107 "Amazing Grace"

  Praise and Prayer

  Responsive Scripture Isaiah 6:1-13  Isaiah’s Commission

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.2 Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.
3 And they were calling to one another:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
9 He said, “Go and tell this people:
“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never
perceiving.’
10 Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
11 Then I said, “For how long, Lord?” And he answered: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged,
12 until the Lord has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly forsaken.
13 And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste.
But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down,
so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.”

  Hymn#112 "He Giveth More Grace"

  Special Music:  "I've Just Seen Too Much" - Big Daddy Weave  

  Sermon   

  Hymn#18 "The Love of God"

  Benediction

 

Prayers:

Mary Sherwood, Don and Mike Shipley, Sherrie Thompson, cancer, Davie Warren - cancer, back, Dr. Woltemath - cancer, , Lynn Handy - at home, Barb Handy - caregiver, Bev Powles - back surgery, Betty Moyer-procedure, Rich Hobbfast - Jan’s friend, not well, Lucy Roth - lymphatic leukemia (Beth’s friend) Mindy’s Dad, Zane Burge - looking for employment, Damon Birkby - Hungary for work (4 months), Unspoken prayers, personal prayers, Penny-a lot of shoulder pain, Linda and Ray Hendrickson - alzheimer's, Chris Auten- health concerns,  the Art Smith family (Diane Birkby's dad)

Praises

Lisa and Jeff's donation of Phyllis's memorial for new church basement door, caregivers, Health workers, Doctors, Nurses, family, Employment, Thomas (Beth's son-in-law) training in Germany 

 

Rootbeer and Orange Floats today after church!

PCC Borard Meeting today after church.

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Looking Ahead...

August 23rd:  Percival Hometown Pride, Saturday picnic in the park, including Cow Pie event

September 7th:  Sunday School starts back up 

 

 

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Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. ~ unknown

 

 

 

 Today's Sunday Church Share...

 

Picture via Pinterest

 

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 Percy's Tidbit

 

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 God Bless