First night of deconstruction. All of the usable boards will be put to beautiful use as art projects during VP renovations! Something broken, something dead and something incomplete. What we have to offer isn’t much but in the transforming hands of the Savior, we are sculpted into something beautiful. Great night of sculpting and scripture…
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Spring 2013 with VP Youth
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Toxic Distractions – Part 5: An Itch that Won’t Scratch
Toxic Distractions – Part 5
Thursday, April 25, 2013
A Call to Worship – Be My Eyes
Lord, be my eyes; be the Lamp that guides my feet. You know the Joneses right? The family with seemingly everything. The perfect family, the perfect job, the perfect house, the beautiful lawn, the nicest cars and all the latest technology. From the outside their life appears to be flawless. But we all know better. Not…
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Pastor’s Pointe of View
“I’ve made myself available to those who haven’t bothered to ask. I’m here, ready to be found by those who haven’t bothered to look. I kept saying, ‘I’m here, I’m right here’ to a nation that ignored me.” (Isaiah 65: 1-2 The Message) My grandson, Aaron James Howell, arrived back in New York last week…
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Call to Worship: Search My Heart
Oh For a Thousand Tongues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igvtsUfD5xM Search My Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0wn7dqdhQE Purify https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjuumHAC30M Here’s My Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3UxfvNbBx0 “Generous in love — God, give grace! Huge in mercy—wipe out my bad record. Scrub away my guilt, soak out my sins in your laundry. I know how bad I’ve been; my sins are staring me down. You’re the One…
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The Awesome Why
In the span of 14 seconds, two loud concussions stilled the jubilant air of the warm spring day and covered it with a blanket of smoke, debris and body parts. Two innocent people, no three, were caught up in the moment and swept away to a place beyond the sights and sound of the Patriot’s…
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Call to Worship: Focus on God
Songs of worship for this week: Lay Me Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j76h-FWn_yo A Mighty Fortress http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT6qiTVhN0M I Surrender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcnfT4arZtI Here’s My Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3UxfvNbBx0 Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things…
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
What’s It All About?
When I studied music with John Seagle (of Seagle’s Music Colony fame), one of the songs that ran around the colony that summer was Alfie. I remember a girl named Susie did a marvelous job communicating the import of the popular 1960’s tune. Dionne Warwick recorded it, as did Cher and others, and it hit a cultural nerve…
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Sunday, April 07, 2013
Toxic Distractions – Part 2: Taking a Look in the Mirror
Toxic Distractions – Part 2