LIVING AND SHARING THE GOSPEL
CALL TO WORSHIP OPENING PRAYER Today, according to the Christian Worship Calendar, is the first Sunday of the Lenten or Easter Preparation season. This is a time when we examine ourselves, seeking to prune the things that no longer serve us so God can grow new life. The theme for this week is God’s […]
THE BATTLE OVER HELL “The Case Against Christianity.” What had prompted the visitor to level such a charge? I took a closer look at the painting. At the top of the canvas, in heaven, sits an impassive Jesus, surrounded by a host of angels and an adoring multitude of the saved.
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OPENING PRAYER WELCOME and THANKS Yesterday was Transfiguration Sunday, the last day in the season of Epiphany (which is all about the “revealing” – the seeing – of Christ’s glory. The theme for this week is the transfiguration of identity. The selected passages that support the theme are … Psalm 50:1-6 • 2 Kings 2:1-12 • 2 Corinthians
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OPENING SONG Text for Today …. Mark 9:2-9 2 Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. 3 His clothes became shining, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can
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CALL TO WORSHIP WELCOME Thanks for joining us ANNOUNCEMENTS Bible study … scheduled for 10:30 a.m. … on-site and online Outreach program … scheduled to start at 1:00 p.m. Monday Reverb … tomorrow evening ca. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Bible study … Tuesday, ca. 7:30 p.m. Mid-week Prayer meeting … Wednesday, ca. 7:30 p.m. Friday
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THE BATTLE OVER HELL It was my first visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. I was standing before The Last Judgment, a painting by the 15th-century Dutch artist Jan van Eyck. On the floor, directly in front of the painting, lay a sheet of paper bearing
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OPENING SONG OPENING PRAYER OPENING COMMENTS The theme this week is the service of God. The selected passages that support that theme are Psalm 147:1-11, 20c • Isaiah 40:21-31 • 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 • Mark 1:29-39 In our call to worship Psalm, God is praised as creator and for his care of those who are nameless and forgotten. Isaiah
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OPENING SONG OPENING PRAYER WELCOME Our text for today … Mark 1:29-39 Peter’s Mother-in-Law Healed 29 Now as soon as they had come out of the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30 But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever, and they told Him about her at
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CALL TO WORSHIP OPENING PRAYER OPENING COMMENTS The theme this week is the service of God. The selected passages that support that theme are Psalm 147:1-11, 20c • Isaiah 40:21-31 • 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 • Mark 1:29-39 In our call to worship Psalm, God is praised as creator and for his care of those who are nameless and forgotten. Isaiah
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SINNERS IN THE ARMS OF A LOVING GOD … by Paul Kroll “The world will probably be converted into … a vast ocean of fire, in which the wicked shall be overwhelmed … their heads, their eyes, their tongues, their hands, their feet, their loins, and their vitals, shall forever be
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