2/11/2024

 Kidz Club will meet this evening at 5:30.

       Events This Week

Today

Sunday School at 10:00

Morning Worship at 11:00

Evening Worship at 6:00

Song Leader: Barry Peffer

Wednesday

7:00 PM    Prayer Meeting

Ladies’ Bible study will resume

 Thursday, March 7.

Ø  There are copies of the Annual Report and the Missionary Directory on the table in the foyer.

Missionary Bruce Seivers (wife, Luann), pastor of a church plant in Ireland, Indiana is recovering from recent medical treatments for cancer. Pray for his church, Grace & Truth Church, and the folks with whom he has been ministering.

See our Missionary Directory for contact information should you feel prompted to send a card. 

Worship Hint for Families

         There are interesting contrasts in Scripture. The one who was not permitted to build the temple is the one who says  that the Lord hates the one who loves violence. This same one also wrote Psalms rightly calling for the destruction of his enemies. Yet it is his exalted descendant who cautions us that even to hate someone is equivalent to murder.

    Let’s not be too quick to wish God’s judgments on the earth. We were graciously saved from wrath, and we should pray that others…many others should be saved too.

 February 12, 1915: Blind hymnwriter Fanny Crosby dies at age 95 after writing more than 8,000 texts. 

Christianity Today

2/04/2024

 Kidz Club will meet this evening at 5:30.

January 30, 1912: Evangelical missionary, philosopher, author, and lecturer Francis Schaeffer is born in Philadelphia. A leading figure in the resurgence of evangelicalism during the 1960s and 1970s, he blamed the rise of relativism for the decline of Western culture.   Christianity Today

       Events This Week

Today

Sunday School at 10:00

Morning Worship at 11:00

Evening Worship at 6:00

Song Leader: Barry Peffer

Wednesday

7:00 PM    Prayer Meeting

Ladies’ Bible study will resume this Thursday, March 7.

“If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.”                               Revelation 14: 9b-10

Worship Hint for Families

  The many metaphors of God as a rock, fortress, or strong hold are wonderful pictures of comfort and encouragement.

  But let us not confuse the image with the imagery. Rocks and hills cannot save us like God can. Neither can they hide us from God when we sin against him.

  The apostle John reminds us in Revelation 6:16,17 when he says that those would hide called upon the hills “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.” John goes on to say that the “…great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”         Jesus is the Rock of our salvation!

Ø  Information about the Gideons is available on the table in the foyer.

Ø  Rejoice with the Roberts family at the birth of their new son, Bennett. Pray for them as they adjust their household to this new arrival.

Ø  Thank you to those who helped make the meal for our Annual Meeting on Friday night.

Ø  There are copies of the Annual Report and the Missionary Directory on the table in the foyer.

1/28/2024

 Kidz Club will meet this evening at 5:30.

On January 27, 417 A British monk, Pelagius was excommunicated for heresy. Pelagianism teaches that men are innately good (no original sin, contrary to Romans 5) which dilutes the essence of Christ’s substitutionary atonement.

       Events This Week

Today

Sunday School at 10:00

Morning Worship at 11:00

Evening Worship at 6:00

Song Leader: Ray Bauder

Wednesday

7:00 PM    Prayer Meeting

Ladies’ Bible study will resume on Thursday, March 7.

“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned…”

Romans 5:12

Worship Hint for Families

          Let’s play hide-and-seek!

We all like to hide—and some of us are really good at it. Oh, we don’t hide from ‘hunters,’ we hide from each other or from ourselves. Sometimes we even try to hide from God.

Where do we go when we hide? Do we use the other door at church, delete an email, silence the phone (relying on caller ID), only speak in generalities, stay home from church? The list is endless.

The psalmist says “In the LORD I take refuge…”. Would that we go to Him to hide. Even if we are hiding because of a besetting sin, to hide in the Lord is true refuge. No shame, no fear, just lots of encouraging help. 

Ø  There will be a presentation by the Gideons during the evening service.

Ø  Rejoice with the Roberts family at the birth of their new son, Bennett. Pray for them as they adjust their household to this new arrival.

Ø  The Annual Meeting will be held at 7:00 on Friday night, February 2. There will be a pot-luck dinner at 6:00. Please bring a dish to share.

1/21/2024

 Kidz Club will meet this evening at 5:30.

Today’s Psalm praises and thanks God and asks for help in times of trouble: the stuff prayer is made of! Join us on Wednesday nights for our own time of prayer to do those very things.

On January 17, 1604 King James of England called a conference of churchmen and theologians at Hampton Court. During the conference a motion carried “…that a translation be made of the whole Bible…”. That eventually led to what we now call the King James Version.

Events This Week

Today

Sunday School at 10:00

Morning Worship at 11:00

Evening Worship at 6:00

Song Leader: Ray Bauder

Wednesday

7:00 PM    Prayer Meeting

Ladies’ Bible study will resume in the spring. More information will be posted closer to the start date.

Psalm 9:2

I will be glad and exult in thee; I will sing praise to thy name, O Most High.

Worship Hint for Families

          Happy New Year!

    We’ve seen the ‘new thing’ God will do when he re-makes the heavens and the earth. We’ve seen the ‘new thing’ when, by Christ’s resurrection, we are made to “walk in newness of life.”

  Now note the command to “put on the new self” – an act for which we are responsible. God makes the new life. God makes it available. God makes us able to do it. But God requires us to exert the effort to ‘put on.’

  Like with those frustrating resolutions, some act of will is necessary. But unlike the usual resolution, this act is sanctioned and supported by God. It is his command. This new year follow the advice of the old gospel song and “Trust and Obey.”

Ø  This coming Friday – Sunday is our annual Castle Retreat. Sign up to attend and join us for refreshing fellowship and feasting on the Word of God.

Ø  Please be in prayer for our church leaders as they prepare for our annual meeting and as they plan our course for the coming year.

Ø  The Annual Meeting will be held at 7:00 on Friday night, February 2. There will be a pot-luck dinner at 6:00.

1/14/2024

Kidz Club will meet this evening at 5:30. 

Join us in prayer on Wednesday nights. Several of our members and many of our loved ones, neighbors, and acquaintances are ailing or otherwise in need. Corporate prayer encourages and strengthens. This is a time in the week when you can get and give at the same time.

Happy New Year!

Events This Week

Today

Sunday School at 10:00

Morning Worship at 11:00

Evening Worship at 6:00

Song Leader: Barry Peffer

Wednesday

7:00 PM    Prayer Meeting

Ladies’ Bible study will resume in the spring. More information will be posted closer to the start date.

Psalm 8

O LORD, our LORD, How majestic is Thy name in all the earth!

Worship Hint for Families

          Happy New Year!

    Someday there will be a ‘new heavens and a new earth.’ That’s a wonderful promise about changes yet to come that God will do. As we look back, we see change that God has already done. The apostle Paul encourages the Corinthians with hope for that great world-change which, he says, will include a physical change for people. But he goes on to remind his reader of a change already made. 2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us that ‘in Christ’ is a newness created by God. In New Year’s resolution-like language “…the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”

  These are profound truths that promise great things. This is that new birth spoken of elsewhere. Rejoice in the “…God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ…”

Ø  Castle Retreat! See the write-up on the bulletin board in the foyer and then sign up to attend. The retreat is Friday, January 26 through Sunday, the 28th.

Ø  Ministry Leaders annual reports need to be submitted to the church secretary by Wednesday night so they can be published prior to our annual meeting.

Ø  Thank you for the donations of used Christmas wrapping.  

1/07/2024

 Kidz Club will meet this evening at 5:30.

Happy New Year!

Events This Week

Today

Sunday School at 10:00

Morning Worship at 11:00

Evening Worship at 6:00

Song Leader: Barry Peffer

Wednesday

7:00 PM    Prayer Meeting

Ladies’ Bible study will resume in the spring. More information will be posted closer to the start date.

“But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up…But according to his promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.”

2 Peter 3: 10, 13

Worship Hint for Families

        Happy New Year! It’s a new year, so do something or be someone different. Make that significant CHANGE. Such are the sentiments of more serious-minded New Year’s resolutions – disdaining trivialities like “I resolve to lose five pounds.”

  What do you believe and teach in your family about “newness?” Scripture speaks to us of three distinct facets of ‘being made new.’ The first is that, at Christ’s return there will be a “…new heavens and a new earth.” Isaiah, Peter, and John all teach of a complete re-making of creation. We have no part in that accomplishment, but we will gain great benefit. “Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”

We will look at the other two facets in subsequent columns.

Ø  Castle Retreat! See the write-up on the bulletin board in the foyer and then sign up to attend. The retreat is Friday, January 26 through Sunday, the 28th.

Ø  Ministry Leaders please be preparing your annual reports. The reports need to be submitted to the church secretary by Wednesday, January 17.

Ø  Now is the time to bring in all the used Christmas wrapping you saved. There is a collection box in the foyer for your end pieces or unwrinkled scraps of Christmas wrapping.  

12/31/2023

Events This Week

Today

Sunday School at 10:00

Morning Worship at 11:00

No Evening Worship

Wednesday

7:00 PM    Prayer Meeting

Ladies’ Bible study will resume in the spring. More information will be posted closer to the start date.

Worship Hint for Families

      Was Christmas exciting and gratifying? It should have been. Now make it even better and do like those dear ones of Thessalonika did in Paul’s day. That remarkable congregation of believers claimed the Bible’s equivalent of a hat-trick:

·         They believed.

·         They shared their belief with others.

·         They eagerly anticipated the return of Christ.

  These were believers who “…turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

         1 Thessalonians 1:9,10

Complete your celebration of the birth of our Savior by anticipating his second coming.

Ø  Castle Retreat! See the write-up on the bulletin board in the foyer and then sign up to attend. The retreat is Friday, January 26 through Sunday, the 28th.

Ø  Ministry Leaders please be preparing your annual reports. The reports need to be submitted to the church secretary by Wednesday, January 17.

Ø  There is a collection box in the foyer for your end pieces or unwrinkled scraps of Christmas wrapping.  

12/24/2023

Kidz Club will not meet this evening. It will resume after the holidays on January 7

For Tonight:  

There will be a candle-light service at 6:00 PM. Join us for worship and song to celebrate the birth of our Savior.

Children should arrive at 5:30 to practice for their Christmas Eve presentation.

“For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”      Isaiah 9:6

Events This Week

Today

No Sunday School

Morning Worship at 10:00

Evening Worship at 6:00

Wednesday

7:00 PM    Prayer Meeting

Ladies’ Bible study will resume in the spring. More information will be posted closer to the start date.

“For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.” 

John 1:17,18

Worship Hint for Families

    Some modern Americans react to Christmas not so very differently than did many Jews back in the first century: disappointed.

   Back then, the hyped anticipation of Messiah was dashed by the meek manner and the redemptive ministry of Jesus. He was no conquering hero, he did not expel Rome, and there was no resurgence of political Israel.

   These days we have depression, loneliness, and sometimes suicide. Many are either disgusted or given over to the crass commercialism of the holidays.

   The problem? Wrong expectations. Christ didn’t come to make life better. He came to make us better for life. Adjust your expectations and Christmas becomes all it should be.

Ø  Card Shower fellowship on Thursday, December 28 from 10:00 to 12:00. All ladies/girls are invited to make cards for Lois Croup. Enough cards are wanted to send one every day for several weeks.

Ø  End pieces or unwrinkled scraps of Christmas wrapping are requested by Abby Peffer. If you have some to give, there is a collection box in the foyer. Thank you and  

Merry Christmas!

 December 31 (New Year’s Eve): No evening service.

12/17/2023

Kidz Club will not meet this evening. It will resume after the holidays on January 7

Special Events for this December

Mark your calendars!

SPECIAL TODAY!

Stay after the morning worship service for lunch and our holiday cookie exchange, and then Christmas caroling to shut-ins (among others). Lunch is provided. There will be no evening service on the 17th.

Events This Week

Today

Sunday School at 10:00

Morning Worship at 11:00

Wednesday

7:00 PM    Prayer Meeting

Ladies’ Bible study will resume in the spring. Stay tuned for information closer to the start date!

Worship Hint for Families

  What made the Wise Men wise? Did they have unusually high IQs? Were they counselors to oriental Kings? Isn’t Magi just another word for astronomer? Or, were they people who pondered previously revealed truth with the intent to discover contemporary application—and then acted upon it?  Then God, who saw their devotion, and gave them the ability to interpret an astronomical anomaly).

   What do we do with the ‘previously revealed truths’ we have access to? Messiah came, satisfied the wrath of God and promised to return. Christmas time is a good time to ponder and then act.

Ø  We meet for Prayer on Wednesday nights to take loved ones, missionaries, our own ministries here at PBC, and some of the concerns of this world to the Lord who helps. Come and join us!

Ø  Got any end pieces or unwrinkled scraps of Christmas wrapping? Please save them for Abby Peffer. A collection box will be provided.

More December events

For Christmas Eve, December 24, there will be no Sunday school. The morning worship service will use that time slot, beginning at 10:00 AM. There will be a candle-light service that evening at 6:00 PM.

December 31 (New Year’s Eve): No evening service.

12/10/2023

Special Events for this December

Mark your calendars!

Tonight: We visit the folks of Zion Baptist Church at 154 Currie Rd. Slippery Rock (near Cooper’s Lake) for their PM service at 6:30. All are welcome!

Next Sunday (the 17th): Stay after the morning worship service for lunch and our holiday cookie exchange, and then Christmas caroling to shut-ins (among others). Lunch is provided. Bring about three dozen of your favorite Christmas cookies to share and don’t forget to include a copy of your recipe. Be prepared to sample some of the many others! There will be no evening service on the 17th.

Events This Week

Today

Sunday School at 10:00

Morning Worship at 11:00

Evening Worship at 6:30 PM at Zion Baptist in Slippery Rock

(See note below)

Wednesday

7:00 PM    Prayer Meeting

Ladies’ Bible study will resume in the spring. Stay tuned for information closer to the start date!

Worship Hint for Families

     “Perhaps what happened was…” “Perhaps what he meant was…” There are many occasions in Scripture for us to speculate. Why did Herod SECRETLY ask the Magi about the timing of the Star? Was he already plotting his heinous attack? Was he afraid a public interview would be construed as support for a new king? We are not privy to many things we think we should know about. Instead, let’s focus on what we are told and why we are told those things. The Messiah came, God protected him, and the great plan of redemption went on.

          What? Me worry?

Ø  We meet for Prayer on Wednesday nights to take loved ones, missionaries, our own ministries here at PBC, and some of the concerns of this world to the Lord who helps. Come and join us!

Ø  Kids Club will conclude this evening until after the holidays. It will resume on Sunday, January 7.

Ø  Got any end pieces or unwrinkled scraps of Christmas wrapping or the cardboard rolls from the wrapping? Please save them for Abby Peffer. A collection box will be provided.

More December events

For Christmas Eve, December 24, there will be no Sunday school. The morning worship service will use that time slot, beginning at 10:00 AM. There will be a candle-light service that evening at 6:00 PM.