Sunday, October 5, 2025

 Blessings

 

 

Welcome October.....guided by faith.

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 Good Morning!

 

 

 

     Sunday, October 5, 2025

     Courage for the Journey 

Call to worship and prayer:  Philippians 2:5-11 

Hymn# 347  "All Creatures of Our God and King"

Offering and Doxology

Hymn# 337 "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty"

Hymn# 439 "Sweet Hour of Prayer"

Praise and Prayer 

Responsive Scripture: Philippians 3:1-14

 No Confidence in the Flesh

 

 1 Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.

2 Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh.

3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—though I myself have reasons for such confidence.

4 If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the  flesh, I have more:

5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of
Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;

6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.

7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of
Christ.

8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing
worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all
things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ

9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in[a] Christ—the
righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

10 I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus

 

Hymn# 92 "The Solid Rock"

Hymn#69 "Standing on the Promises" 

Special Music "Lord, You Are My Strength" by Jelly Roll

Hymn# 443 "I Need Thee Every Hour"

Sermon: "Thoughts, Pressing On"

Hymn# 16 "Tell Me the Old, Old, Story"

Hymn# 18 "The Love of God" 

 

 Prayers: 

 Mary Sherwood - sign book if visiting, Wava and Mike Shipley -Rockport, Don Shipley, Betty Booker - health concerns, Sandra and Chase - Nancy’s family, Sherrie Thompson, cancer, Jan’s friend Glenda Wright - cancer, Davie Warren - back, falling issues, Ellie, Lynn Handy - physical therapy weekly 3x, Barb Handy - health issues,
Bev Powles - heart procedures soon, Joan Tiemeyer - back, hives, Rich Hobbfast - Jan’s friend, not well, Lucy Roth - lymphatic leukemia, Beth’s friend, Diena - JoAnne’s friend, Linda and Ray Hendrickson - alzheimers, Family of Anne Chambers, Don’s ministry, McIntosh,  Trisha, Harvest, Bob Miles - liver cancer, Brenda Herivel - lung, pituitary tumors, Unspoken and personal prayers

 

 Looking Forward:

Sunday School - 8:45 am
Harvest Party for children - October 26th, 2 - 4 pm
Harvest Dinner - November 23rd
Decoration Day - November 23rd
November 30th - First Sunday of Advent

 

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 Mary Z. requests the congregation to collect for her empty plastic milk jugs, gallon size or half gallon. She needs about 30 of them for a Halloween craft at our Fall Festival.

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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...

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Percy's Tidbit

 

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Have a great week
 

Sunday, September 28, 2025

 Blessings

 

Farewell,  September-- your days have gone too swiftly.

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Sunday, September 28th, 2025
     Courage for the Journey

Call to Worship and Prayer: Isaiah 15:1-9

Hymn #323, “Holy, Holy, Holy”

Offering and Doxology

Hymn #325, “All Hail The Power of Jesus' Name”

Praise and Prayers

Responsive Scripture: Isaiah 16:1-13

 1  Send the lamb to the ruler of the land, From Sela to the wilderness,
To the mount of the daughter of Zion.

2   For it shall be as a wandering bird thrown out of the nest; So shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

3  “Take counsel, execute judgment; Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day; Hide the outcasts, Do not betray him who escapes.

4  Let My outcasts dwell with you, O Moab; Be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler. For the extortioner is at an end, Devastation ceases, The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

5  In mercy the throne will be established; And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David, Judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.”

6  We have heard of the pride of Moab—He is very proud— Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath; But his lies shall not be so.

7  Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab; Everyone shall wail. For the foundations of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn; Surely they are stricken.

8  For the fields of Heshbon languish, And the vine of Sibmah; The lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants, Which have reached to Jazer And wandered through the wilderness. Her branches are stretched out, They are gone over the sea.

9  Therefore I will bewail the vine of Sibmah, With the weeping of Jazer; I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; For battle cries have fallen Over your summer fruits and your harvest.

10  Gladness is taken away, And joy from the plentiful field; In the vineyards there will be no singing, Nor will there be shouting; No  treaders will tread out wine in the presses; I have made their shouting cease.

11 Therefore my heart shall resound like a harp for Moab, And my inner being for Kir Heres.

12  And it shall come to pass, When it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, That he will come to his sanctuary to pray; But he will not prevail.

13 This is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning Moab since that time.

Hymn #337, “Praise To The Lord the Almighty”

Special Music:
“Out Of My Hands” by Jeremy Camp

Sermon “Moab”

Hymn #18, “The Love Of God”

 

Prayers: 

 Mary Sherwood - sign book if visiting, Gary Sherwood,  Wava and Mike Shipley -Rockport, Don Shipley, Betty Booker - health concerns,
Sandra and Chase - Nancy’s family, Sherrie Thompson, cancer, Jan’s friend Glenda Wright - cancer, Davie Warren - back, falling issues, Lynn Handy - physical therapy weekly 3x, Barb Handy - caregiver, Bev Powles - procedures this month, Joan Tiemeyer - back, Rich Hobbfast - Jan’s friend, not well, Lucy Roth - lymphatic leukemia, Beth’s friend, Linda and Ray Hendrickson - alzheimers, Don’s  ministry, Unspoken and personal prayers

 Praises:

Penny’s Jesse and Wyatt’s first anniversary, Donna’s lunch with Nancy, Mindy’s family gathering, Barb H. didn’t have stroke, crops look great.

 

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Mary Z. requests the congregation to collect for her empty plastic milk jugs, gallon size or half gallon. She needs about 30 of them for a Halloween craft at our Fall Festival.

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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, September 21, 2025

 Blessings

 

 

 

 Sunday, September 21st, 2025
     Courage for the Journey

Call to Worship and Prayer: Isaiah 13:1-13

Hymn #69, “Standing On The Promises”

Offering and Doxology

Hymn #56, “Good Will Take Care Of You”

Praise and Prayers

Responsive Scripture: Isaiah 14:3-17

 3 On the day the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you, 

4 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury[a] has ended!

5 The Lord has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

6 which in anger struck down peoples with unceasing blows,
and in fury subdued nations with relentless aggression.

7 All the lands are at rest and at peace; they break into singing.

8 Even the junipers and the cedars of Lebanon gloat over you and say,
“Now that you have been laid low, no one comes to cut us down.”

9 The realm of the dead below is all astir to meet you at your coming;
it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you— all those who were leaders in the world; it makes them rise from their thrones— all those who were kings over the nations.

10 They will all respond, they will say to you, “You also have become weak, as we are; you have become like us.”

11 All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you.

12 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!

13 You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.

14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

15 But you are brought down to the realm of the dead, to the depths of the pit.

16 Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate:
“Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble,

17 the man who made the world a wilderness,
who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?

Hymn #71, “Faith Is The Victory”

Special Music:
“The Battle Belongs To You” by Phil Wickham

Sermon “Babylon”

Hymn #18, “The Love Of God”

 

 Prayers:

Mary Sherwood - sign book if visiting, Gary Sherwood, Wava and Mike Shipley -Rockport, Don Shipley,  Betty Booker - health concerns
Mindy Raymond, Barbara Armstrong,  Sandra and Chase (Nancy’s family), Sherrie Thompson, cancer, Davie Warren - back, falling issues
Lynn Handy - physical therapy weekly 3x, Barb Handy - caregiver, Bev Powles - procedures this month, Joan Tiemeyer - back, Rich Hobbfast - Jan’s friend, not well, Lucy Roth - lymphatic leukemia, Beth’s friend, Zane Burge - looking for employment, Birkby’s family in Mexico, Linda and Ray Hendrickson - alzheimers, Don’s ministry, 
Kim Dyke, Bonnie Hickey and Family, Family of James Armstrong - Mindy’s father, Family of Andy Jones, Unspoken and personal prayers

 

 Praises:
Nice photos all around of great grandchildren .Delicious desserts for Pie Day last Sunday, Pastor won the vote in the Malvern Special Election, Damon Birkby - enjoys work in Europe 

Mary Z. requests the congregation to collect for her empty plastic milk jugs, gallon size or half gallon. She needs about 30 of them for a Halloween craft at our Fall Festival.

 

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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