• This Weeks Worship…1.8.12

  January 6, 2012

  Hello Harvest Church Family. I expect everyone was blessed by having experienced Christmas…all its related traditions and activities, and especially what it represents in the lives of believers. The break from routine is always nice. However, I think it’s just as nice to dig back in when the new year rolls around. Well…it’s arrived, and it’s exciting to look at the plans of our church in the year ahead. Will you commit to praying for one another and for our impact on those in our community, as well as to serving the Lord in full obedience as He leads us step by step.

  This week, we will evaluate scriptural perspectives on stewardship. 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 teaches that God, in His immeasurable grace, lavishes good things on those who have purposed in their hearts to, in turn, use those graces for the sake of blessing others. Often, it’s very natural to enjoy God’s blessings for ourselves, and God definitely wants us to experience joy in life. However, it is ultimately our Father’s purpose that, with thankful and humble hearts, we sacrificially share those joys, graces, and earthly blessings with others. It is when we empty ourselves that God replenishes the need.

  Our songs for Sunday will focus on our God’s bountifully supplying our needs, and, in turn, our offering back to Him. In the song Enough, we express our recognition of the sufficiency of God’s gifts to His children. He provides our needs to live as well as the sacrifices we are to offer to Him and others. Unashamed, likewise, expresses that it is because of Christ that we are able to offer anything of value. We have nothing of ourselves, much less anything to offer with which God would be pleased. Yet because of the grace and mercy of Christ, that which God has given, yes, even that which by our sin became cursed, has been redeemed and is fit to be given in such a way that honors the Lord. It becomes clear that giving is among the highest of privileges when we recognize that Christ’s sacrifice was required that we could give as an act of worship.

  Weekend Service
  Sunday, January 8, 2010

  Scriptural Focus:
  2 Corinthians 9:6-15

  Songs:
  Hosanna, Praise is Rising
  Blessed be Your Name
  Enough
  God You are My God
  Praise to the Lord
  Unashamed

• Worship 11.20.11

  November 18, 2011

  Hopefully you’ve all had a great week!  There’s been a lot going on at the church, including the chili dinner and decorating for Christmas.  It’s hard to believe 2011 has nearly come and gone, and that Thanksgiving and Christmas are imminently near.  With that having been said, we will soon begin worshiping through songs that focus on the birth of Christ.  The Worship Ministry is deep into our preparations for the Christmas Worship Concert, which will be on Sunday evening, December 4th at 6:30pm.  We hope to see you there. This Sunday in our corporate worship gathering, we will focus [...]

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• Worship 11.13.11

  November 11, 2011

  First, let me express how much I missed you all last weekend.  It was really nice to be home with my family, but you all are my family as well and there’s a bit of an empty spot in my life if I don’t share in worshiping with you during any given week.  I appreciate so much the ways you so consistently live lovingly toward Kelly, my kids, and me.  Thanks for being obedient in living out your role as the body of Christ, not only in relation to me, but also to one another and to the community. This [...]

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• For your gifts…Thank You!

  November 3, 2011

  That God, in His sovereign plan, chooses to use weak and wavering (by “wavering”, I refer not to one’s commitment to Him or to the desire to follow Him on a broad level, but to our inability to live even nearly as consistently as we ought) people to accomplish His purposes is an utterly humbling thought.  The privilege of serving a church consisting of people such as you creates within me a deep and profound appreciation of this manifest expression of God’s grace upon my life.  I’m constantly reminded of this as you, my church family, offer day by day [...]

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• Worship 11.6.11

  November 2, 2011

  November is here and the year is quickly fleeting.  There have even been forecasts of snow, and as we begin making arrangements for Thanksgiving, and then Christmas, I’m reminded of Ephesians 5:16.  Paul teaches that we are to seek to understand the will of the Lord, and, in this light, to redeem the time.  It’s tempting to become distracted by the busy-ness of life during the fast-approaching season.  I would encourage you to deliberately fix your eyes upon Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.  Make a lifestyle of worship, both private and corporate, a priority and remain steadfastly [...]

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• Hi to my Church Family

  September 13, 2011

  I hope you are all having a great week and are growing in the grace of our Lord. I’m sure you’re reading the blog now because you want to enrich your Sunday worship experience, and you’re probably not the one who needs reminding, nonetheless, I want to take this opportunity to reiterate the purposes of the Worship Blog. First, we want to help you prepare for our corporate worship gatherings. Our Pastor and our Worship Team spend many hours each week preparing, not to offer the congregation our best, but that the church may offer the Lord our best. Much [...]

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