{"id":85,"date":"2010-06-14T08:27:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T12:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2010-06-14T08:41:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T12:41:48","slug":"what-a-great-lords-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"What a Great Lord&#8217;s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yesterday &#8212; the Lord&#8217;s Day at Curwensville Alliance Church was incredible. <\/strong>It began with a good Sunday School class taught by Matt McCracken. He&#8217;s doing a great job detailing the material in <em>The Search for Significance<\/em>. I enjoyed looking over the book and spending time being part of Matt&#8217;s class. Pray for each Sunday School class &#8212; that they will be marked by consistent attendance, personal growth, and numeric increase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Baptism Service<\/strong> is coming up at the end of the month. This week I have a couple more students who want to go through the material. I love teaching them the meaning of baptism so that their own experience of baptism is significant. Pray for those who are considering baptism &#8212; that they will understand the concept and obey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Morning Worship Service <\/strong>was a good time of looking at Jesus&#8217; words to the Sadducees concerning their failure to know God&#8217;s word and God&#8217;s power. To my delight, when I arrived home in the evening, there was a message from someone whose husband said, <em>&#8220;Man &#8212; Pastor Steve was talking straight to me today! I want to come to the Genesis Bible Study!&#8221;<\/em> We all know it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;Pastor Steve&#8221; talking. It was God, through his Spirit, speaking in the message. It&#8217;s amazing to me that God uses this vehicle of preaching to communicate his truth. Pray that he will continue to work in the lives of those who hear God&#8217;s word proclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>Many in the church family enjoyed a pleasant luncheon together and afterward, Laurel and I made a quick trip to see my mother in the rehabilitation home. Her arm looks much better, but she&#8217;s having trouble finding hope that she will get back to the room she had been in before she fell. While there, we received the prayer-line message concerning Bev being in DRMC. Laurel and I made it to DRMC just moments after Bev had been transferred to Pittsburgh, but I was able to speak to her father. He brought me up to date on Bev and promised to let her know Curwensville Alliance would be praying for her. <strong>Please remember Bev in prayer as her liver is not performing the proper function at this time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Outreach Committee <\/strong>had a good meeting, finalizing details for the Fishers of Men Tournament Trail. Dave Clark will be speaking at that event. If you can help with anything, speak to Tim Smay. <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Among other items discussed was the need to help A Day Awaits with the lock-in this weekend. If you can help with that, please contact Brennan Bell as soon as possible. The committee noted there were lots of empty spaces on the sign-up sheets.<\/span> And please remember to pray concerning the lock-in.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for praying regarding the ministry of <em>your church<\/em>, Curwensville Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>~Pastor Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday &#8212; the Lord&#8217;s Day at Curwensville Alliance Church was incredible. It began with a good Sunday School class taught by Matt McCracken. He&#8217;s doing a great job detailing the material in The Search for Significance. 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