"Advent, like its cousin Lent, is a season for prayer and reformation of our hearts. Since it comes at winter time, fire is a fitting sign to help us celebrate Advent…If Christ is to come more fully into our lives this Christmas, if God is to become really incarnate for us, then fire will have to be present in our prayer. Our worship and devotion will have to stoke the kind of fire in our souls that can truly change our hearts. Ours is a great responsibility not to waste this Advent time." ~E...
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Month: December 2012
3rd Sunday in Advent . . . Sunday 12/16/2012
Join us this Sunday, December 16 – the 3rd Sunday in Advent.
“One Quiet Night” Christmas Cantata/Drama will be presented in our unified worship service starting at 9:00am.
Christmas and stress. They seem to go hand in hand. Why is it that the time of “Peace on Earth” is anything but peaceful? In “One Quiet Night”, a harried mom, Kelly, frantically pushes through the rush of the Christmas season until an unexpected accident forces her to stop dead in her tracks. Left at home alone while her...
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“Christmas May Be Hazardous to Your Agenda” (12/9/12)
Pastor Blaik J. Westhoff
John 1:1-18
1. How does your agenda change during the Christmas season?
2. How are you doing with Jesus commands to "Love your enemies", to "pray for those who persecute you", to "forgive seventy times seven"?
3. Describe what it is like to know that God's Spirit lives inside you?
Further Study:
Luke 10:38-42
1. This time of the year it is easy to become distracted from the true meaning of the season. What steps can you take to safeguard against these dist...
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Tabor Church to Participate in Offering for New Jersey
The United Methodist Committee on Relief has done their initial assessment of the situation in New Jersey following Hurricane Sandy and has determined that the recovery from this disaster will take approximately 3-4 years to complete. This means that our response will be ongoing as we provide a helping hand to those in need.
For that reason, our Annual Conference (Eastern Pennsylvania) – along with other Annual Conferences - is initiating a special offering for the Greater New Jersey Annual ...
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Worship thought for the week . . .
“If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen. He could live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart. What about the Christmas gift He sent you in Bethlehem; not to mention that Friday at Calvary.”
~Joe Gatuslao~
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