Saturday, April 5, 2025

Sunday, April 6, 2025

 Blessings

Spring is April's way of saying, "Let's Bloom."

 

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 Good Morning!

 

 


Sunday, April 6th, 2025
Courage to live Counter-culturally


Call to Worship and Prayer 

Daniel 6: 25-28


Hymn #616, “ Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus


Offering and Doxology


Hymn #598, “All The Way My Savior Leads Me


Praise and Prayers


Responsive Reading: Daniel 6:1-12

  Daniel in the Den of Lions
Leader - Even verses; Congregation - Odd verses

 1 It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom,
2 with three administrators over them, one of whom was Daniel. The satraps were made accountable to them so that the king might not suffer loss.
3 Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.
4 At this, the administrators and the satraps tried to find grounds for charges against Daniel in his conduct of government affairs, but they were unable to do so. They could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent.
5 Finally these men said, “We will never find any basis for charges against this man Daniel unless it has something to do with the law of his God.”
6 So these administrators and satraps went as a group to the king and said: “May King Darius live forever!
7 The royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers and governors have all agreed that the king should issue an edict and enforce the decree that anyone who prays to any god or human being during the next thirty days, except to you, Your Majesty, shall be thrown into the lions’ den.
8 Now, Your Majesty, issue the decree and put it in writing so that it cannot be altered—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.”
9 So King Darius put the decree in writing.
10 Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.
11 Then these men went as a group and found Daniel praying and asking God for help.
12 So they went to the king and spoke to him about his royal decree: “Did you not publish a decree that during the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human being except to you, Your Majesty, would be thrown into the lions’ den?” The king answered, “The decree stands—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.”


Hymn #601, “Savior, Like A Shepherd Lead Us”


Special Music: “Courageous” by Casting Crowns


Sermon: “Courageous Living”


Hymn #18, “The Love Of God


Benediction

 

 Prayers:

Donna Glenn - caretaker, horses, Jim Glenn, hospice at home, Mary Sherwood, Wava, Don and Mike Shipley, Sherrie Thompson, cancer, Davie Warren - cancer, back, Randy Snapp - cancer, Dr. Woltemath - cancer, Harley Niles, kidney disease, Penny’s grandson Erin, Nancy Moran, Handy’s niece, Penny Warren - shoulder surgeries, Farmers in the fields

 Praises:
Phyllis behind the wheel again, Magnolias ready to bloom, Johnson’s new home in Glenwood, Kelly’s 62nd birthday, Mary Zach’s sister Barb visited. So did Mike Gordon

 

 COMING UP...

 

April 12th, Easter Egg Hunt at Percival Park at 10 am.


April 13th: Palm Sunday, pancake breakfast with Chef Jan, bring a side dish


April 18th: Good Friday Service 4 pm


April 20th: Easter Sunday


Members of the congregation are asked to help with buying church supplies. Look for a sign-up sheet in the Fellowship Room

 

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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!

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Sunday, March 30, 2025

 Blessings

 

A favorite picture with the Watson Baptist Church in the background.  Check out today's "Sharing Moments" about a church with a special celebration.  *Picture credit:  Scott Holmes


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 Good Morning!


 Sunday, March 30th, 2025
    Courageous Women


Call to Worship and Prayer


Esther 4:13-16


Hymn #117, “ A Shelter In The Time of Storm


Offering and Doxology


Hymn #112, “He Giveth More Grace


Praise and Prayers


Responsive Reading: Esther 7:1-10

Leader - Odd verses; Congregation - Even verses
Haman Impaled
1 So the king and Haman went to Queen Esther’s banquet,
2 and as they were drinking wine on the second day, the king again asked, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.”
3 Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor with you, Your Majesty, and if it pleases you, grant me my life—this is my petition. And spare my people—this is my request.
4 For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed and annihilated. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king.”
5 King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, “Who is he? Where is he—the man who has dared to do such a thing?”
6 Esther said, “An adversary and enemy! This vile Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
7 The king got up in a rage, left his wine and went out into the palace garden. But Haman, realizing that the king had already decided his fate, stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life.
8 Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Will he even molest the queen while she is with me in the house?” As soon as the word left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
9 Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, “A pole reaching to a height of fifty cubits stands by Haman’s house. He had it set up for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king.” The king said, “Impale him on it!”
10 So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai. Then the king’s fury subsided.


Hymn #120, “He Hideth My Soul


Special Music:
Born For This” by Mandisa


Sermon
“Courageous Women”


Hymn #18, “The Love Of God


Benediction

 

 Prayers:
Donna Glenn - caretaker, horses, Jim Glenn, hospice at home, Mary Sherwood, Wava, Don and Mike Shipley, Sherrie Thompson, cancer, Davie Warren - cancer, back, Randy Snapp - cancer, Dr. Woltemath - cancer, Drew, Dave Heuberger, Harley Niles, kidney disease, Penny’s grandson Erin, Nancy Moran, Handy’s niece, Penny Warren - shoulder surgeries, Steve Adkins accident, Larry and Betty, travel mercies, farmers in the field

 Praises:

No serious trouble for the congregation from the March blizzard. Births, visitors, birthdays and anniversaries. Magnolias ready to bloom.

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COMING UP...


Today: Annual Meeting and noon meal after the service


April 5th, Saturday: congregation church clean-up


April 13th: Palm Sunday, pancake breakfast with Chef Jan


April 18th: Good Friday Service 4 pm


April 20th: Easter Sunday


Members of the congregation are asked to help with buying church supplies. Look for a sign-up sheet in the Fellowship Room

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Each week we share photos of beautiful churches. This week we're sharing the Watson Baptist Church in Watson, Missouri.  This church will be celebrating its 125th anniversary and they are inviting the public to come celebrate with them.

 

209 East St.  Watson, Missouri

 

 

 

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...

 

Watson Baptist Church, Watson, Missouri


 

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Percy's Tidbit 



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Have a great week!  I hope the little sheep running late for church made you smile today  😊

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Sunday, March 23, 2025

 Blessings

 


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 Good Morning!

 


 

Sunday, March 23rd, 2025
Courage in the Face of Opposition


Call to Worship and Prayer
Numbers 14:1-10


Hymn #118, “A Mighty Fortress


Offering and Doxology


Hymn #108, “Rock Of Ages


Praise and Prayers


Responsive Reading: Joshua 14:6-14

Leader - Even verses; Congregation - Odd verses
Allotment for Caleb
6 Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me.
7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions,
8 but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the
people melt in fear. I, however, followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.
9 So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.’
10 “Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old!
11 I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as
vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then.
12 Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”
13 Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.
14 So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since, because he followed the Lord, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly.


Hymn #107, “Amazing Grace


Special Music:
You Make Me Brave” by Julia Elias


Sermon
“Courage in the Face of Opposition”


Hymn #18, “The Love Of God


Benediction

 

 Prayers:
Donna Glenn - caretaker, horses, Jim Glenn, hospice at home,
Mary Sherwood, Wava, Don and Mike Shipley, Sherrie Thompson, cancer, Jon Horenstein, cancer, Davie Warren - cancer, back, Randy Snapp - cancer, Dr. Woltemath - cancer, Wendy Crothers, fall, kidneys, Drew, Dave Heuberger, Harley Niles, kidney disease, Penny’s grandson Erin, Nancy Moran, Handy’s niece, Penny Warren - shoulder surgeries

 

 Praises:
Penny’s new great grandson, successful drama for the Lueth family.
Many March Birthdays and Anniversaries: Mark, Diane Birkby, 7th Jim Glenn, 4th Maggie Johnson, 13th Nancy Hurst, 16th Diane Handy, 18th Mary Zach, 22nd Phyllis Layman, 30th Kelly Johnson, 6th Lynn & Barbara Handy, 10th Rusty & Mindy Raymond, 18th Brian & Kelly Johnson

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 COMING UP

March 30th: Annual Meeting and noon meal, bring a side dish to share


April 5th, Saturday: congregation church clean-up


April 13th: Palm Sunday, pancake breakfast with Chef Jan


April 18th: Good Friday Service 4 pm


April 20th: Easter Sunday


Members of the congregation are asked to help with buying church supplies. Look
for a sign-up sheet in the Fellowship Room

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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