Intro Today is Refugee Sunday and the 2nd week in our Summer Playlist sermon series in the Psalms. So, in a moment we are going to look at Psalm 142 together and discover the heart of God for the weak and vulnerable in our world. But first, some sobering statistics. We’ve already seen a video this morning…

REVIEW: Be watchful to guard against gospel drift Fight the flesh by walking in the Spirit and bearing spiritual fruit Persevere under pressure in: Faith Hope Love Because Jesus is worth it! Then we looked at Jesus’ prayer for Unity for his followers. Our ability to reach our community will always be…

Review: Kingdom Building Our desire is to seek God advance His Kingdom in our community in us and through us. Be watchful to guard against gospel drift Fight the flesh by walking in the Spirit and bearing spiritual fruit Persevere under pressure in: Faith Hope Love Because Jesus is worth it! Then we…

You may have noticed on your way in this morning that some of our health policies have changed. In light of the new CDC recommendations and the State of New York’s updated health guidelines. The elders have decided that masks will now be optional for all fully vaccinated individuals. If you are not vaccinated…

Intro We have a prayer sheet that goes into the bulletin each week. It’s a list of ways that you can be praying for each other. Sharing prayer requests is something many of us are familiar with. Some of us keep our own list of things that we pray for — things that we ask God for. One of the things we’ve…

Main Idea Building well requires perseverance under pressure because Jesus is worth it! Intro The author of Hebrews is writing to what is likely a group of persecuted Jewish followers of Jesus. They face daily the threat of death or imprisonment. And because of this some have decided that life would…

Intro Last week we saw in revelation 3 a caution to be watchful as we seek to advance the kingdom of God here in the Hudson valley lest we make the same mistake as the church in Sardis and drift from the gospel. This week we’ll be in Paul’s letter to the Galatian church and we’ll see why we must be a…

Intro We’re entering a new chapter together as a church. It’s not accurate any longer to say that we are a church in transition. A few years ago, we were in a place where we had only a one elder who also happened to the the youth pastor. We had a health assessment done by our association to help get…

Intro Our church mission statement is: To glorify God by making and growing fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ. This is not a novel statement. And it shouldn’t be. As a church we don’t get to decide what our mission will be. Christ is the head of the Church and we get our marching orders directly…