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Our Labor Day Prayer | being church together
https://westhills.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/our-labor-day-prayer
Gather connect serve engage. Our Labor Day Prayer. We wrote a Labor Day prayer that was used for Sunday’s worship gathering. Some have asked for a copy of it and have even shared the idea of keeping it with them at work to lead them in prayer during especially tough days. I thought I’d post it online, so here it is:. 8220;GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, we stand before You the Lord of both labor and rest and the Giver of all provisions and daily needs. 8220;MAY WE SEE each workday and the dollar it provides as ...
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About Us | being church together
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Gather connect serve engage. West Hills Community Church. Gather. connect. serve. engage. We are an assorted lot of people who have set our lives toward following Jesus. In the midst of this journey, our paths have crossed, and it made sense to take this journey together. Though there may be a good variety of differences between us, it is this one thing… this faith in Jesus… that unites us together. Our desire is that at West Hills, we would be a people who are:. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You are comme...
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being church together | gather | connect | serve | engage | Page 2
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Gather connect serve engage. Even when humanity fails in the most all-encompassing and wholehearted ways. Such is God’s faithfulness, even When We Are Not. Comments : Leave a Comment. Spring Cleaning for the Soul. This is pretty much what Jesus does in his well-known Sermon on the Mount. He takes a look at the religious system of his day and says, “Hold on! We’ve really let things go, haven’t we? Comments : Leave a Comment. Hello everyone. Just a quick note on our West Hills podcast. Due to some ...The f...
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Responding to the Haiti Crisis | being church together
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Gather connect serve engage. Responding to the Haiti Crisis. As we all look for the best avenues of response toward Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti, we realize that the call of Jesus is clear in times like this. It is one of sacrifice and servanthood. It is one of love in the most tangible of ways. After all, if we can’t even care for people’s visible needs, how can we claim to care about those we cannot see? Feel free to leave comments or further Haiti updates below. From the US Geological Survey:. Addres...
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A Moment on the Shore | being church together
https://westhills.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/a-moment-on-the-shore
Gather connect serve engage. A Moment on the Shore. Are we following Jesus? Do we use the term “Christian” (or “Christ-One”) to describe ourselves? Do we consider ourselves his disciples—his followers? Here’s what we find in Matthew 8: Just as Jesus is about to set sail from Capernaum, two “disciples” come up to him. The first one is a scribe, one learned in Jewish law. He comes up boldly proclaiming, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go! Can I jump in the boat too? Following anywhere I take you?
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Holy Week for… ME (?) | being church together
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Gather connect serve engage. Holy Week for… ME (? Hey all, sorry it’s been tooooo long since we’ve put a new post up. But I have something to share with you that I found quite powerful. We started a Sunday worship series called. 8220;I Am… Jesus”. Paul writes in Colossians, “And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses. 8221; (2:13-14) In a sense, as our sin was executed on the cross, Jesus. I did n...
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Social Holiness | being church together
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Gather connect serve engage. Allow me to share an extended excerpt from Richard J. Foster’s book. Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home. Harper San Francisco, 1992). I pray that you find it to stir your heart as it did mine…. 8220;The true prophetic message always calls us to ‘social holiness,’ to use the phrase of John Wesley. By our praying and by our living we sabotage all class and rank and status distinctions. A person is, on that a person. Laquo; A Moment on the Shore. Praying for the Nations.
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Faith Stories | being church together
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Gather connect serve engage. I know my stories, but I don’t know yours. And maybe when I forget about my story, yours will come by at just the right time to encourage me when my faith is discouraged. This is a pool for those stories. What encourages your faith? 8230; Happy writing. What an incredible day! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out.
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Praying for the Nations | being church together
https://westhills.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/praying-for-the-nations
Gather connect serve engage. Praying for the Nations. Please allow me, if I may, to share one more extended excerpt from Foster’s book (see previous post). If find it so profound in how we may pray for and confess on behalf of the nations of the world. May God use our prayers to bind all peoples together in the power of his grace…. Laquo; Social Holiness. Our Labor Day Prayer. Date : April 13, 2011. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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