Sunday, February 25, 2024

 Blessings

 

  But He gives more grace.  Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble."  James 4:6

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 Good Morning!

 

 Lenten Awakening 

“Jesus Humbling Us”

 

 

 Call to Worship, Prayer 

 Hymn  “All Creatures Of Our God And King"

 Hymn  “Near The Cross”

 Praise and Prayer

 Responsive Scripture: Grace for the Humble 

 Leader: You are adulterers. Don’t you know that making friends with this corrupt world order is open aggression toward God? So anyone who aligns with this bogus world system is declaring war against the one true God. Do you think it is empty rhetoric when the Scriptures say, “The spirit that lives in us is addicted to envy and jealousy”? You may think that the situation is hopeless, but God gives us more grace when we turn away from our own interests. That’s why Scripture says,

 All: God opposes the proud, but He pours out grace on the humble.

 Leader: So submit yourselves to the one true God and fight against the devil and his schemes. If you do, he will run away in failure. Come close to the one true God, and He will draw close to you. Wash your hands; you have dirtied them in sin.

 All: Cleanse your heart, because your mind is split down the middle, your love for God on one side and selfish pursuits on the other.

 Leader: Since the beginning, our loving Creator has been pursuing us, drawing us closer to Him. He invites us to move closer to Him so we can be fully His.

 All: Now is the time to lament, to grieve, and to cry. Dissolve your laughter into sobbing, and exchange your joy for depression. Lay yourself bare, facedown to the ground, in humility before the Lord; and He will lift your head so you can stand tall.

 Leader: Do you understand what I have done to you: You call Me Teacher and Lord, and truly, that is who I am. So if your Lord and Teacher washes your feet, then you should wash one another’s feet. I am your example; keep doing what I do.

 All: I tell you the truth: a servant is not greater than the master. Those who are sent are not greater than the one who sends them. If you know these things, and if you put them into practice, you will find happiness.

 Special Music: “When God Comes Near” 

 from the Salvation Army Hallelujah Chorus

 Sermon: “Jesus Humbling Us”

 Hymn  “When I Survey The Wondrous Cross”

 Benediction

 

 Prayer

 Mary Sherwood, Jim and Donna Glenn, Presidential election, unspoken prayers, Mike Shipley, Don Baker’s African Mission, Roger and Pat Polsley, Families and children, Nancy Newlon, Crystal and Andrew, Pastor Donna, Larry and Betty Moyer, Gary and Alice Shoning, Tom Shull, Bev Powles, Joan Tiemeyer, Phyllis Layman, Ellie Warren

 

 Nancy’s address: 702 Fort Crook Rd. S

 #241 Bellevue, NE 68005

 March 3rd Annual Meeting after the service in the Fellowship room.   Chicken and noodles served. Bring a side dish to share. 

 March 23 Percival Hometown Pride: Firehouse pancakes and Easter    egg hunt at the park. 

 March 24 Palm Sunday: pancake breakfast, bring a side dish to share.

 May 1st: Pastor Donna invites the ladies to a Tea Party in Malvern

 

 

 

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 @meglaymanphotography

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Percy's Tidbit

 

 Don't wait for things to get

easier, simpler, better.

Life will always be complicated.

Look for small opportunities for happiness

in the moment you are in right now.

Otherwise, you might run out of time.

We can't often choose our circumstances,

but we can better control our

reactions and emotions.  Choose

small moments of joy. ~Author Unknown 

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Have a great week

 

Sunday, February 18, 2024

 Blessings

 

Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth: you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the kingdom.  Matthew 11:25

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Good Morning!

 

 

 Lenten Awakening

 “Jesus Revealing Us”

 

 Call to Worship, Prayer 

Hymn  “All Hail The Power of Jesus’s Name" 

 Hymn “Take My Life and Let it Be” 

Praise and Prayer 

Responsive Scripture: Jesus Revealing Us

 Responsive Scripture: Jesus Revealing Us 

Leader: There is one more thing we dare not leave out in our pursuit 

 of learning to see as Jesus sees. It’s the matter of our eyes. What we 

 see is interpreted through the filtering lens of our acquired learning, 

 our set opinions, our good or bad fortunes, our belief system, and a 

 variety of other influences. Jesus invites us to a different way of 

 seeing. He reveals it in a prayer:

All: At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father - Lord of heaven and 

 earth. You have revealed Your truths to the lowly and the ignorant, 

 the children and the crippled, the lame and the mute. You have

 hidden wisdom from those who pride themselves on being so wise 

 and learned.” (Matthew 11:25)

 

 Leader: The disciples struggle with the concept of the kingdom of 

 heaven. They do not yet understand that who is most important or 

 most powerful is a contradiction in terms. Later in Matthew’s 

 Gospel, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the 

 greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

 

All: Jesus called over a little child. He put His hand on the top of 

 the child’s head. “This is the truth: unless you change and become

 like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. In 

 that kingdom, the most humble who are the most like this child are

 the greatest. And whoever welcomes a child, welcomes her in My

 name, welcomes Me.” (Matthew 18:2-5) 

 

Leader: In God’s economy, each soul has its own value apart from all 

others. Jesus calls the people of His kingdom to help the weak and 

the friendless, the small and the frail, the mute and the poor, the ugly  and disfigured.

 

 Special Music: “Bow The Knee” by Streams of Mercy 

 Sermon: “Jesus Revealing Us”

 Hymn “O For A Thousand Tongues”

 Benediction

 

 Prayer list

 Mary Sherwood, Jim and Donna Glenn, Presidential election, Unspoken prayers, Mike Shipley, Don Baker’s African Mission , Roger and Pat Polsley, Families and children, Nancy Newlon, Pastor Donna, Larry and Betty Moyer, Gary and Alice Shoning, Tom Shull, Bev Powles, Joan Tiemeyer, Phyllis Layman, Ellie Warren

 

 Board meeting today after the service and Fellowship.

 Nancy’s address: 702 Fort Crook Rd. S #241, Bellevue, NE 68005 

March 23 Percival Hometown Pride: Firehouse pancakes and Easter egg hunt at the park. 

March 24 Palm Sunday: pancake breakfast, bring a side dish to share.

May 1st: Pastor Donna invites the ladies to a Tea Party in Malvern.

 

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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

 Times are uncertain but our God is not.

 

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Have a great week

Sunday, February 11, 2024

 Blessings

 

As we look ahead to Valentine's Day this week let us remember.......

God is love and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.  ~1 John 4:16

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We all need words to live by, 

to inspire us and guide us, 

words to give us courage 

when the trials of life betide us. 

And the words that never fail us

are the words of God above,

Words of comfort and of courage

filled with wisdom and with love. 

                 ~ Helen Steiner Rice

 

 

 

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Good Morning!

“Do the Job”

 Call to Worship: James 5:7-12

 Hymn “All The Way"

 Hymn #240 “Fairest Lord Jesus”

 Praise and Prayer 

 Responsive Scripture: James 4:1-12

 Leader: 1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?

 All: 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 

Leader: 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 

All: 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 

 Leader: 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?

 All: 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” 

Leader: 7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 

 All: 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double- minded.

 Leader: 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.

 All: 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. 

Leader: 11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister[d] or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. 

 All: 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?

 Special Music: “Lord, I Need You” by Matt Maher

 Sermon: “Submit to God” 

 Hymn “Just A Closer Walk”

 Benediction: Lamentations 3:21-25

  

Prayer Requests:

 Mary Sherwood, Jim and Donna Glenn, Presidential election, Unspoken prayers, Mike Shipley, Don Baker’s African Mission, Roger and Pat Polsley, Families and children, Nancy Newlon, Pastor Donna, Larry and Betty Moyer, Gary and Alice Shoning, Tom Shull, Bev Powles, Joan Tiemeyer, Phyllis Layman, The family of John Ferguson

 

 Today, February 11th: luncheon after the service at Valentino’s

 May 1st: Pastor Donna invites the ladies to a Tea Party in Malvern. 

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 Nancy, we are going to miss you.  We are all so blessed to call you friend!  This is not goodbye, just a farewell for now. We will keep in touch!

 

                                                              Nancy and  Pastor Donna

 Nancy's new address:           Nancy Newlon

                                               702 Fort Crook Rd.  S #241

                                               Bellevue, NE  68005

 

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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

 
 I love it when God interrupts my thoughts and reminds me that the battle is not mine, but His.  @amazinggracecoffee

 

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Enjoy your week