WORSHIP SERVICE INFORMATION FOR SUNDAY 4/29/2012

Greeting saints in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This week our preaching text will be from John's Gospel regarding a man that had his life dramatically changed by an encounter with Jesus Christ.  Here is the text...

John 9:1-11 NLT
9:1 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
2 “Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?”
3 “It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be seen in him.
4 We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us.[a] The night is coming, and then no one can work.
5 But while I am here in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6 Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man’s eyes.
7 He told him, “Go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam” (Siloam means “sent”). So the man went and washed and came back seeing!
8 His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar asked each other, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”
9 Some said he was, and others said, “No, he just looks like him!” But the beggar kept saying, “Yes, I am the same one!”
10 They asked, “Who healed you? What happened?”
11 He told them, “The man they call Jesus made mud and spread it over my eyes and told me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash yourself.’ So I went and washed, and now I can see!”
 
WHAT THE SERMON IS ABOUT:   "Our God who is able to turn our burdens into blessings if we will trust Him enough"

SUGGESTED CHILDREN'S MESSAGE: Let's teach our children to do what they believe God wants them to do.

RESPONSIVE READING: 568: The Life and Ministry of Jesus
 
Bless you people of God, as we seek to glorify God and advance His Kingdom together, please stay prayerful as we learn to love one another with the love of Jesus Christ. God expects it of us.

Yours in Christian Love and service,

Pastor W.C. Hill

WORSHIP SERVICE INFORMATION FOR SUNDAY 4/22/2012

Giving all praise and honor to God, who is the head of our lives. Last Sunday turned out to be not to be the "low Sunday," that often follows Resurrection Sunday, but for us, it was a time of high worship and praise. To God be the glory! Thank you to all of you that worked so hard and ministered so faithfully. As I mentioned Sunday, I am on vacation this week and Rev Shprecher is going to bring the Word this coming Sunday. Here is the text from Luke's Gospel...

Luke 24:36-48
36While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
37They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost.
38He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds?
39Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
40When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet.
41And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”
42They gave him a piece of broiled fish,
43and he took it and ate it in their presence.
44He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”
45Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.
46He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
47and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
48You are witnesses of these things.
 
TITLE:  "Seeing Jesus"

WHAT THE SERMON IS ABOUT:   "Bringing the risen Lord into your life and the lives of others."

SUGGESTED CHILDREN'S MESSAGE: Let's teach our children to seek Jesus in their own lives and to tell their friends..

RESPONSIVE READING: #571 "The Resurrection of Jesus"
 
Bless you people of God, as we seek to glorify God and advance His Kingdom together, please stay prayerful as we learn to love one another with the love of Jesus Christ. "Yes we Can!"

Yours in Christian Love and service

Pastor W. C. Hill

WORSHIP SERVICE INFORMATION FOR SUNDAY 4/15/2012

Praise the Lord saints! Giving all glory and honor to God, we had a wonderful Resurrection Sunday celebration and outpouring of the Spirit of God. Surely many where in the house and I believe many were blessed by the service. My appreciation to all of you that worked hard to bring it forth.
Some in the Christian circle call this coming Sunday "low Sunday" because the excitement and celebration of Resurrection Sunday has passed, and it is often reflected in Church attendance. We'll see what happens, but meanwhile I am led in the preaching to address the reality of what happens after the celebration and we face the realities and challenges of life. Here is the text from the Book of Exodus...

Exodus 15:22-27 (NLT)
22 Then Moses led the people of Israel away from the Red Sea, and they moved out into the desert of Shur. They traveled in this desert for three days without finding any water.
23 When they came to the oasis of Marah, the water was too bitter to drink. So they called the place Marah (which means “bitter”).
24 Then the people complained and turned against Moses. “What are we going to drink?” they demanded.
25 So Moses cried out to the Lord for help, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. Moses threw it into the water, and this made the water good to drink.
It was there at Marah that the Lord set before them the following decree as a standard to test their faithfulness to him.
26 He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of theLord your God and do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and keeping all his decrees, then I will not make you suffer any of the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who heals you.”
27 After leaving Marah, the Israelites traveled on to the oasis of Elim, where they found twelve springs and seventy palm trees. They camped there beside the water.

WHAT THE SERMON IS ABOUT:  "The nature of our walk with God, particularly as we face the challenges of life."

SUGGESTED CHILDREN'S MESSAGE: Let's teach our children the importance of being "for real" before God.

RESPONSIVE READING: 605 Praising the Lord
 
Bless you people of God as we seek to glorify God and advance His Kingdom together, please stay prayerful as we learn to love one another with the love of Jesus Christ.

Yours in Christian Love and service,

Pastor W. C. Hill

WORSHIP SERVICE INFORMATION FOR SUNDAY 4/8/2012

Praise God from whom all blessings flow!  Bless you saints. This week we will celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Here is the text from John's Gospel...

John 20:1-9
1 Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.
2 She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
3 Peter and the other disciple started out for the tomb.
4 They were both running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
5 He stooped and looked in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he didn’t go in.
6 Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, 7 while the cloth that had covered Jesus’ head was folded up and lying apart from the other wrappings.
8 Then the disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed—
9 for until then they still hadn’t understood the Scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead.

WHAT THE SERMON IS ABOUT:  "The significance of Jesus' Resurrection and what it means to us."
 
Bless you people of God as we seek to glorify God and advance His Kingdom together, learning to love one another with the love of Jesus Christ.

Yours in Christian Love and service,
 
Pastor W. C. Hill