This Sunday (1/23/22) we’re going to wrap up our missions conference in both morning services.
David will be here this morning for the 8:00 service and 10:45 service.
Donuts will be available at 9:00 a.m.
Sunday School will follow our normal routine since Lou Ann cannot be with us.
Be praying about your response to what God’s Spirit may be saying to you concerning this Great Commission He has given us.
Some of us at Curwensville Alliance are going to do this in 2022.
You’re welcome to join us if you like.
Because it’s beginning soon, we won’t do the bulk purchase of books. If you have trouble getting one, let me know. I’m not purchasing the whole set at once; you can do as you please.
It’s all online, so CLICK HERE to Register. I used our church name Curwensville Alliance.
-Pastor Steve
I’ve not read a lot of Frederick Buechner, but I’ve fallen in love with a number of his quotes over the years.
This is one of my favorites…
The child born in the night among beasts. The sweet breath and steaming dung of beasts. And nothing is ever the same again.
Those who believe in God can never in a way be sure of him again. Once they have seen him in a stable, they can never be sure where he will appear or to what lengths he will go or to what ludicrous depths of self-humiliation he will descend in his wild pursuit of humankind.
If holiness and the awful power and majesty of God were present in his least auspicious of all events, this birth of a peasant’s child, then there is no place or time so lowly and earthbound but that holiness can be present there too.
And this means that we are never safe, that there is no place where we can hide from God, no place where we are safe from his power to break in two and recreate the human heart, because it is just where he seems most helpless that he is most strong, and just where we least expect him that he comes most fully.
beuchner In “Secrets in the Dark”
May your Advent – your Christmas Eve – be marked by an awareness that God is ever pursuing you to make you his own, to make you the person you are meant to be.
I hope you’ll join us for our Candlelight Christmas Eve service tonight at 7:00 p.m.
If you’re subscribed to Curwensville Alliance’s YouTube Channel, you’re getting the video we provide there. And you’re getting the Advent Moments – highlights from Sunday’s Service.
If you’re not getting them, you can subscribe here.
This week’s video is here.
May your Advent Season be marked by the presence of Christ.
Today, a good friend asked…
“How did you handle your first Christmas without a parent? I’m struggling… Thanksgiving was tough.”
That’s a difficult question, isn’t it?
May God comfort you and help you as you navigate the difficult transitions of life. May his presence be with you and guide you.