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TURN To Luke chapter 19 What Brings Us here What Brings ME HERE to Luke 19 – ‘Well Done!! Good and Faithful Servant”!! The Master – Well Done! Graduate Recognition – Well Done!! Alyssa Stucky: Graduating From Vestal High School Looking Ahead to Studying Early Chidlhood Education at Clarks Summit University…

Introduction This past week I had a moment to focus on Graduation. I was able to see virtually Caleb graduate and talked with one of our youth who will be graduating from High School this coming June. It brought me back to the graduations in my life. My first one that I can remember is graduating from…

Today we all have gathered for worship and to mark an occasion in my ministry journey. This past Tuesday marked the 30 year anniversary of my ordination as a Minister of the Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA). So much has changed since I first answered those ordination questions all…

The message this morning is aimed at the graduates, but really it can be applicable for all of us! When I was in high school, there were group of athletes in the class ahead of me that were really good In fact, I thought that they were amazing! My 7th grade year, the 8th graders went undefeated in all…

Intro: Today, we recognized our graduates. What a momentous occasion for Leo and Grace as they move on to the next phase of life. All across this country young men and women have completed their High School or College educations and have walked across the stage and received their diploma or degree. During…

Graduation from High School is a very exciting time. However, the excitement also comes with a ton of stress. While graduation, whether it’s from college, high school, middle school or even Kindergarten can bring excitement, relief and the start of big new plans, for many graduates it also can bring…

God is the Gauge of Grace God is the Gauge of Grace I chose this title partly because I wanted to be alliterative; and couldn’t quite find the word I wanted to fit into the title, in order to say, We Cannot Force the Hand of God for Our Justification and Salvation. Even when we do our very best to use…

Has there ever been a day you just couldn’t wait for? Maybe it was your wedding day, birthday, anniversary, or the first day of a vacation you were going to take. I remember the first day of high school. I was nervous about being in a new school but I remember thinking it was going to be four years until…

Your image in the world In the modern age of 2020 one of the most important things that a person holds on to is their image. It is one of the most important thing to the average Young Adult. Just look at the Average time it takes for us to get ready for the day. YouGov did a survey to show the average…

Casting Bread H appiness is the smell of bread baking. Anonymous Spiritual happiness is finding the will of God and doing it! Ecclesiastes 11:1 “ Cast your bread upon the waters, For you will find it after many days.” 1 Kings 10:22 “For the king had merchant ships at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once…

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” William Shakespeare uses this line in his play Romeo and Juliet to convey that a name is nothing but a name… OR IS THERE??? Is there something more to this name “Christian”???… follow along as we read from 1 Peter…

This is the last year in 2023, another year will soon behind us. It’s hard to believe! This church will have been going for 168 years old this April. I am currently the 28th pastor, including one pastor returning I came in December of 2019, and have now been here for four years. We made it through a…

Dear Lord, We come before you today with humble hearts, seeking to draw closer to you through your holy word. We thank you for the gift of your word, which guides us in truth and teaches us your ways. Help us to cherish your word and to meditate on it day and night. May it be a lamp to our feet and a…

God graciously provides a solution for evil in the world and in our hearts.

Opening passage: Joshua 1:1-7 (NKJV) The Cost of Progress Your Presenter: OrLando Yarborough III · Opening passage: Joshua 1:1-7 (NKJV) · Good Morning. Welcome to the Black Church at Yale. We have three leaders who make the everyday decisions for our church--students Lauren Okine, Jailon Henry, and Marvin…

The Christian story - the human story- begins with relatively simple instructions. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves…

We are reminded that God graciously promises He will return. We are encouraged to look around us and be a witness.

Introduction A flurry of tassels will be hung from rear-view mirrors over the upcoming weeks. The dynamic that you hang there whatever represents your biggest achievement. College tassel (red for theology, but bleached it out to where people would assume that my degree was in public health). Before that…

Announcements Does anyone have any announcements? Saturday, April 16 at 9am Mike Swenson and crew will be grinding the stumps on the side of the church so we can beautify that area. April 24 is Baptism Sunday. We have 4, maybe 5 brothers and sisters that have felt the Holy Spirit’s call to be baptized.…

Serving as Pastor Is a calling, privilege, opportunity, blessing and block of history that I have had opportunity to work out in several locations. Rainier, Oregon, my home congregation: Where I was brought up since age 9 through Sunday School and Youth Class, taught by Clyde Wemmer, Orville Harrison,…

Hebrews 11:8-10 I want to look at the circumstances that came about in Abraham’s life, to cause him to grow and to change into this man that is written about in Hebrews. Abram has been given a promise to become a new nation. What is he called to do? Leave his homeland, this shouldn’t be to difficult,…

Introduction Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?” That one line from the famous “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves’ can easily be said to be the motto for contemporary culture. We live in a nation obsessed with the body. Mirrors are everywhere and we desire that they tell us that…

INTRO GEORGE STEPHENSON spent fifteen years to perfect the locomotive. WATTS worked for thirty years on the condensing engine. Hard rubber cost GOODYEAR ten years of study, poverty and public ridicule. FIELD crossed the ocean fifty times to lay a cable so men could talk across the oceans. BURBANK the…

Four stories Then Job answered the Lord and said: “I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You. Truly God is good to Israel, To such as are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; My steps had nearly slipped. For I was envious of the boastful,…