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Thinking about Sunday mornings
I did something that I have never done before this Christmas: I read Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. I enjoyed it very much and had fun reading it aloud to my children. They were especially interested that so much of the dialogue in the latest animated film (starring Jim Carey) is word-for-word from the book. There…
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It Is Written
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It…
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Crown Him with Many Crowns
We kicked off worship this morning with one of my favorite hymns, Crown Him with Many Crowns by Matthew Bridges. This morning we sang four verses. And in the hymnals I have at home there are only four verses. But the cyber hymnal lists NINE verses. I bolded the ones that are new to me.…
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Be Holy As the Lord Is Holy
The sermon this morning came from Leviticus 19. Our pastor made 10 points from verses 1-18:1. Holiness affects how we treat our parents.Verse 3a: Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father 2. Holiness affects how we order our days.Verse 3b: you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.…
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Hymn: Come, Ye Sinners
We sang this song in worship this morning, but the arrangement was new to me. I wish I could find a recording like the one we sang; it is very pretty. Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy Words by Joseph Hart Come, ye sinners, poor and needy, Weak and wounded, sick and sore; Jesus ready…
Leslie Wiggins 