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

Sunday, February 4, 2024

 Blessings

 

"Let God's promises shine on your problems." ~ Corrie Ten Boom

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 Good Morning!

 

 “Do the Job” 

 Call to Worship: James 3:13-18

 Hymn #323 “Holy, Holy, Holy"

 Hymn #318 “Come, Thou Fount”

 Praise and Prayer

 Responsive Scripture: James 2:14-2 

 Responsive Scripture James 2:14-26 Faith and Deeds

 Leader: 14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them?

 All 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 

 Leader: 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 

All: 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

 Leader: 18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.

 All: 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. 

Leader: 20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? 

All: 21 Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 

 Leader: 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 

All: 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. 

Leader: 24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone. 

All: 25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?

 Leader: 26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead

 Special Music: “Faithfully” by TobyMac 

 Sermon: “Faith, Deeds and Wisdom”

 Hymn #337 “Praise To The Lord” 

 Benediction: Lamentations 3:21-25

 Prayers:

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

 

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  February 11th: Valentino's luncheon after the service; please let Jan know if you plan to go. 

 

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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

"Only one thing can prevent you from doing the will of God....your will.  ~Elisabeth Elliot

 

 

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 Have a good week

Sunday, Janurary 28, 2024

Blessings 

 

Good Morning!

  "Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says."  ~ James 1:22

 

I know I have shared this before but again it brings to memory a Sunday School song I sang as a child. I only knew the first verse but apparently there were 3 more. I'm so thankful these songs I sang years and years ago, continue to live on in my heart today. ~Mindy 

For those unfamilar with the song you can click HERE to hear the tune.

The B-I-B-L-E

Yes that's the book for me

I stand alone on the word of God

The B-I-B-L-E

The B-I-B-L-E

I'll take along with me

I'll read and pray and then obey

The B-I-B-L-E

By F-A-I-T-H

I'm S-A-V-E-D

I'll stand alone

on the word of God

The B-I-B-L-E

The B-L-O-O-D

That Jesus shed for me

Cleansed me from sin

I belong to Him

The B-L-O-O-D

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 “Do the Job” 

 

 Call to Worship: James 1:1-8

 Prayer

 Offering and Doxology

 Hymn #32 “How Firm A Foundation” 

 Responsive Reading: James 1:19-27

 Leader:19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 

All: 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. 

 Leader:21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

 All: 22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 

 Leader:23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror

 All: 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 

 Leader:25  But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.

 All: 26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. 

 Leader:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world

 

 Hymn #92 “The Solid Rock”

 Praise and Prayer

 Special Music: “He Won’t” by Cody Carnes 

 Sermon: “Do The Work”

 Hymn #458 “Take My Life and Let it Be”

 Benediction: Lamentations 3:21-25

 

 Praise and Prayer

 Mary Sherwood, Jim and Donna Glen, Ellie Warren, Presidential election, Unspoken prayers, Mary Zach, Don Shipley, Mike Shipley, Don Baker’s African Mission, Roger and Pat Polsley, Phyllis Layman, Nancy Newlon, Pastor Donna, Penny Warren, Betty Moyer

 

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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

 

 Isn't it so comforting to know that NOTHING and NO ONE can steal your peace today?

Because if peace = Jesus, AND JESUS NEVER LEAVES YOU, then peace is always yours.

@CLEERELYSTATED

 

 

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Have a blessed week.  Lead with Love.

Sunday, Janurary 21, 2024

 Blessings

 

Once again there will be no church this Sunday due to the weather.  Everyone stay safe and warm and we shall hopefully see you all next week!

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To follow God is to always be headed in the right direction.

~  @faithfulfootprints

 

Sunday, January 14, 2024

 Blessings

 We lift this day with a thought of Love, an act of kindness and a heart of Hope.  ~Mary Davis

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Good Morning everyone!  There is no church today due to the weather.  See you next week!

Sunday, January 7, 2024

 Blessings

 

 

 

 

 

As we begin this new year may the light of God guide our way.

 

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 Sunday Worship Service Choral Sing

 

“I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day” by Casting Crowns

 “Christmas Hallelujah” by Caleb and Kelsey

 Hymn #175 “While Shepherds Watched” 

 Hymn #197 “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear” 

 Special Music: “O Holy Night” by Josh Groban

 Hymn #205 “Go Tell It On The Mountain”

 Hymn #178 “O Little Town Of Bethlehem”

 “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” by Pentatonix

 Hymn #183 “ I Wonder As I Wander”

 Hymn #193 “O Come All Ye Faithful”

 “Grown Up Christmas List” by Kelly Clarkson 

Devotion:

 “Mary Did You Know” by Matt and Savanna Shaw

 Hymn #195 “Silent Night” 

Benediction 

 

 

Praise and Prayer

 Mary Sherwood, Jim and Donna Glenn, Ellie Warren, Roger and Pat    Polsley, Jenny Bruce, Presidential Election, people alone, Gary and April Shoning, Don Baker and African Mission, unspoken prayers.

 Family gatherings, Good weather, Better New Year, Betty Booker back in church, Church blog, the church foundation.

 

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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   Ontario, Canada

 

 

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 Percy's Tidbit

   She started the year with a simple prayer, "Lord, lead the way."   @joenasandiego

 

 

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 Have a great week