Church Blog
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February 15, 2009 Order of Worship
Chilmark Community Church February 15, 2009 Gathering and Announcements Prelude Call to Worship Sing Praises to God, O you saints, and give thanks to God’s holy name! We exalt you , O God, for you have restored us to life! We may cry through the night, but your joy comes with the morning. You…
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Letter from DS Shaw “View from the Bridge”
Dear Pilgrims, A January 28, 2009 Gallup Poll entitled State of the States: Importance of Religion reports that when asked “Is religion an important part of your daily life?” 65% of Americans reported that religion is an important part of their daily lives. This conclusion was based on interviews of more than 350,000 participants around the…
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In the Company of Strangers
“In my view, the mission of the church is not to enlarge membership, not to bring outsiders to accept its terms, but simply to love the world in every possible way—to love the world as God did and does. The body of Christ is a network of organic connections between people, connections which make one’s…
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Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009
Isaiah 40:21-31 This poetic admonition was written to the Jews in Exile in Babylon . We talked about what it meant to “wait on (or upon) the Lord”. DC spoke about the ancient concept that gods inhabit certain geographical spaces and that, being in Exile, the Jews needed to be reminded that their God was…
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March 8 Woody Bowman
Woody Bowman of West Tisbury, Director of FOCUS, will be our guest preacher on March 8. We will post more details later.
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February 8, 2009 Order of Worship
Chilmark Community Church February 8, 2009 Prelude: Invention #8 J.S.Bach Gathering and Announcements Call to worship: Isaiah 40:21-31 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning?Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,…
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Arlene Bodge Feb 1
Arlene spoke without notes, so this is a report of some of her remarks by a witness. She preached from Mark1:21-28 about Jesus’ teaching with authority, a new kind of teaching. She gave examples of people with authority and emphasized that they had experienced what they taught. She told two stories to illustrate her remarks. …
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February 1
Arlene Bodge created the order of worship and it was not transferable to this site. But she spoke about the validity of the traditional order of worship. The Gathering comes first, remembering the early Jesus followers who met in their homes or synagogues. The praise and celebration begins the service with the call to worship…
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Let The Lower Lights Be Burning (Feb 1 Arlene Bodge’s Sermon)