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From the Pastor In his book,"The Rest of God:Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath," author and Pastor Mark Buchanan begins with the obvious question:"How does one define Sabbath?"Answers usually gravitate toward our calendar.Is it the first or seventh day of the week?Is it Saturday or Sunday.I know my day of rest is not Sunday.Given the complexities of...

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Upcoming Events Augsut 30 through September 6, 2019

Upcoming Events Friday, August 30, 2019 through Friday, September 6, 2019 Sunday, September 1 - 10:00 A.M. - Morning Worship Service 10:00 A.M. Worship Service - Family Life Center No Sunday School Kid's Own Worship will be held in the Family Life Center during the service Scripture: Psalm 131 and Mark 4:35-41 Sermon: "Comfort Zone" Pastor John Hartman Wed...

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From The Pastor

From the Pastor "The Shepherd's Psalm" Of the 150 psalms in the Bible, 73 of them are attributed to David, and there is probably none more famous than that of Psalm 23.Now for many people Psalm 23 is associated with funerals. The 23rdPsalm is to funerals what I Corinthians 13 is to weddings.When a couple stands at the front of the church, we expect to hea...

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Upcoming Events Friday, August 23 through Friday, August 30, 2019

Upcoming Events Friday, August 23 through Friday, August 30, 2019 Saturday, August 24 - 10:00 - 11:00 A.M. - Safety and Security Meeting The congregation is invited to join us in the Family Life Center to learn more about safety in our facility.The presentation is titled,"Run, Hide, Fight,"and will be led by a representative from thePA State Police. Sunday, Aug...

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From The Pastor

From the Pastor In the book, "Leaping Over a Wall,"by Eugene Peterson, he describes David's early life as his "rising years" and his later life as his "reigning years."His rising years and his reigning years seem to have the same trajectory.Our younger years are like when we're getting our education, jumping through hoops, and wannabes in our professions.W...

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From The Pastor

From the Pastor "Be the Presence" The presence of God is often evident by tangible means. God refuses to be reduced to an abstraction or analyzed as a mere thought or idea. To speak of God's presence is to speak of something real, not imagined.In the Old Testament, this presence is primarily associated with the Ark of the Covenant.David instructed the peo...

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From the Pastor I don't think anybody ever needed the doctrine of assurance as much as Larry the Sad Boy, one of the inhabitants of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon:"Larry the Sad boy was saved twelve times in the Lutheran church, an all-time record.Between 1953 and 1961, he threw himself weeping and contrite on God's throne of grace on twelve separate occa...

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Upcoming Events Friday, August 2 through Friday, August 9

Upcoming Events Friday, August 2 through Friday, August 9, 2019 Sunday, August 4 - 10:00 A.M. - Morning Worship Service 10:00 Worship Service - Family Life Center No Sunday School Kid's Own Worship will be held in the Family Life Center during the service Scripture: 1 Samuel 21:1-9 Sermon: "David and Communion" Pastor John Hartman Sunday, August 4 - 4:00 P.M. ...

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