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Pastor's Corner

2012-01-21T16:51:00.000-05:00

"Judas heard all of Christ's sermons."
By: Thomas Goodwin

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2012-01-17T20:19:00.001-05:00

"We never sin but there will be two witnesses present to observe and register it, our own selves and God Himself."
By: Ralph Venning

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2012-01-12T21:21:00.000-05:00

"There are three kinds of lies: a lie told, a lie taught, a lie acted."
By: Joseph Caryl

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2012-01-03T21:08:00.000-05:00

"Our help is in the name of the Lord, but our fears are in the name of man."
By: William Greenhill

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2011-12-23T09:51:00.000-05:00

"Self-examination is a spiritual inquisition set up in the soul."
By: Thomas Watson

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2011-12-14T21:34:00.001-05:00

"The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him."
By: John Milton

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2011-12-08T19:58:00.000-05:00

"Sin could not die, unless Christ died; Christ could not die, without being made sin; nor could He die, but sin must die with Him."
By: Elisha Coles

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2011-12-07T22:58:00.000-05:00

"Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction."
By: Samuel Rutherford

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2011-11-23T22:13:00.000-05:00

"Self-love may lead us to prayers, but love to God excites us to praises."
By: Thomas Manton

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2011-11-17T23:02:00.001-05:00

"He that demands mercy, and shows none, ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass."
By: Thomas Adams

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2011-11-08T20:34:00.000-05:00

"Better to bear than to swear, to die than to lie."
By: Thomas Brooks

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2011-11-07T22:07:00.001-05:00

"Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride."
By: Richard Sibbes

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2011-10-29T20:54:00.000-04:00

"'We love Him because He first loved us.' Love is an echo, it returneth what it receiveth."
By: Thomas Manton

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2011-10-21T20:08:00.001-04:00

"He may not be accounted an honest man of life that is an evil man in tongue."
By: Nicholas Byfield

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2011-10-14T00:43:00.001-04:00

A heathen philosopher once asked: "Where is God?"
The Christian answered; "Let me first as you, where is He not?"
By: John Arrowsmith

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2011-10-06T21:20:00.001-04:00

"I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself."
By: Samuel Rutherford

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2011-09-28T21:23:00.000-04:00

"The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying."
By: John Flavel

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2011-09-20T20:40:00.001-04:00

"Whoever delays his repentance does in effect pawn his soul with the devil."
By: Thomas Manton

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2011-09-12T21:47:00.000-04:00

"Since He looked upon me, my heart is not my own, He hath run away to heaven with it."
By: Samuel Rutherford

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2011-09-05T22:49:00.001-04:00

"To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle,...eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow."
By: William Jenkyn

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2011-07-20T23:11:00.000-04:00

"What health is to the heart, that holiness is to the soul."
By: John Flavel

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2011-07-17T09:33:00.000-04:00

"When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words, than thy words without a heart."
By: John Bunyan

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2011-07-07T21:36:00.000-04:00

"Christ takes no more delight to dwell in a sad heart, than we do to live in a dark house."
By: William Gurnall

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2011-06-29T21:25:00.001-04:00

"Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely, according to conscience, above all other liberties."
By: John Milton

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2011-06-24T21:37:00.000-04:00

"The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print."
By: William Gurnall

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2011-06-07T23:17:00.000-04:00

"Regeneration is a universal change of the whole man...it is as large in renewing as sin was in defacing."
By: Stephen Charnock

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2011-06-03T23:33:00.000-04:00

"His will is the rule of righteousness, and righteousness is the rule of His will."
By: Elisha Coles

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2011-05-28T21:50:00.000-04:00

"Thomas acknowledged the divinity he did not see, by the wounds he did see."
By: John Boys

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2011-05-19T22:18:00.000-04:00

"God does not justify us because we are worthy, but by justifying us makes us worthy."
By: Thomas Watson

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2011-05-15T22:15:00.000-04:00

"The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble."
By: Thomas Watson

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2011-05-04T21:07:00.001-04:00

"All things (but lying, dying and denying Himself) are possible to God".
By: Christopher Nesse

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2011-04-26T22:39:00.000-04:00

"Pride loves to climb up, not as Asccheus to see Christ, but to be seen."
By: William Gurnall

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2011-04-21T17:11:00.000-04:00

"We are more sure to arise out of our graves than out of our beds."
By: Thomas Watson

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2011-04-16T20:37:00.001-04:00

"There is no death of sin without the death of Christ."
By: John Owen

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2011-04-06T20:45:00.002-04:00

"By delay of repentance, sin strengthens, and the heart hardens. The longer ice freezeth, the harder it is to be broken."
By: Thomas Watson

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2011-03-30T16:36:00.000-04:00

"God's truth always agrees with itself."
By: Richard Sibbes

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2011-03-26T19:41:00.001-04:00

"It is no miracle if he that lives like a beast dies like a beast."
By: Francis Cheynell

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2011-03-19T22:00:00.001-04:00

"God can pick sense out of a confused prayer."
By: Richard Sibbes

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2011-03-12T21:36:00.001-05:00

"The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble."
By:Thomas Watson

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2011-02-28T19:35:00.000-05:00

"Let them fear death who do not fear sin."
By: Thomas Watson

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2011-02-22T21:27:00.000-05:00

"Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages."
By: Thomas Watson

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2011-02-14T19:37:00.000-05:00

"Affection without action is like Rachel, beautiful but barren."
By: John Trapp

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2011-02-07T22:26:00.000-05:00

"To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again."
By: William Gurnall

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2011-02-01T23:10:00.000-05:00

"Heaven is aptly compared to a hill, hell to a hole."
By: John Trapp

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2011-01-25T21:04:00.000-05:00

"Life is to be measured by action, not by time; a man may die old at thirty, and young at eighty; nay, the one lives after death, and the other perished before he died."
By: Thomas Fuller

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2011-01-20T19:19:00.001-05:00

"We are not saved for believing but by believing."
By: Thomas Taylor

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2011-01-13T21:47:00.001-05:00

"The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes."
By: Thomas Watson

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2011-01-06T19:47:00.000-05:00

"A lazy spirit is always a losing spirit."
By: Thomas Brooks

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2010-12-23T18:55:00.001-05:00

"Growth in grace doth not always consist in doing of other works for the kind, but in doing the same works over and over again better than before."
By: Thomas Bridge

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2010-12-18T09:55:00.001-05:00

"They lose nothing who gain Christ."
By: Samuel Rutherford

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2010-12-11T09:47:00.000-05:00

"It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ."
By: Richard Sibbes

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2010-11-27T23:20:00.001-05:00

As a sacrifice, our sins were laid upon Him, (Isaiah 53); as a Priest, He beareth them, (Exodus 28:38); and as an Advocate, He acknowledges them to be His own. (Psalm 69:5).
By: John Bunyan

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2010-11-20T23:07:00.000-05:00

"Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels."
By: Thomas Watson

Karen Parker's Miracle

2010-11-14T19:00:00.001-05:00

The special service on the morning of November 14, 2010 honored and thanked God for the miracle given to Karen Parker during her sickness and recovery. Hear this special service, part 1 and part 2, on the Sermons page. The entire family participated in the service including Harrison reading God's Word, Lauryn playing the piano for the offertory, Alex singing the morning music special, Karen reading a poem, "The Gift of Friendship", and Pastor Tim preaching the morning sermon.

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2010-11-08T22:51:00.000-05:00

"The servants of the Lord are to sing His praises in this life to the world's end; and in the next life, world without end."
By: John Boys

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2010-11-03T22:24:00.000-04:00

"In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out."
By: Richard Baxter

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2010-10-30T21:24:00.000-04:00

"Rumor is a loud liar, like a snowball that gathereth as it goeth."
By: John Trapp

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2010-10-24T16:49:00.000-04:00

"To bless God for mercies is the way to increase them; to bless Him for miseries is the way to remove them."
By: William Dyer

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2010-10-12T22:28:00.000-04:00

"Take heed of drowsiness in hearing; drowsiness shows much irreverence. How lively are many when they are about the world, but in the worship of God how drowsy...In the preaching of the Word, is not the bread of life broken to you; and will a man fall asleep at his food? Which is worse, to stay from a sermon, or sleep at a sermon?
By: Thomas Watson

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2010-10-09T19:52:00.000-04:00

"Sin is the strength of death and the death of strength."
By: Thomas Adams

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2010-09-09T23:31:00.000-04:00

"If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy."
By: Thomas Brooks

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2010-09-04T10:49:00.001-04:00

"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."
By: Robert Leighton

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2010-09-04T10:47:00.001-04:00

"Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise."
By: Thomas Watson

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2010-08-21T10:41:00.000-04:00

"Truth must be spoken however it be taken."
By: John Trapp

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2010-08-13T20:14:00.000-04:00

"The saints of God are sealed inwardly with faith, but outwardly with good works." By: John Boys

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2010-07-31T09:36:00.000-04:00

"When Christ reveals Himself there is satisfaction in the slenderest portion, and without Christ there is emptiness in the greatest fullness."
By: Alexander Grosse

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2010-07-14T21:51:00.002-04:00

"Man is a creature that is led more by patterns than by precepts."
By: George Swinnock

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2010-06-26T21:57:00.000-04:00

"We know metals by their tinkling, and men by their talking."
By: Thomas Brooks

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2010-06-16T21:51:00.000-04:00

"Sin never ruins but where it reigns."

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2010-06-08T22:22:00.000-04:00

"If I speak what is false, I muct answer for it; if truth, it will answer for me."
By: Thomas Fuller

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2010-06-03T22:56:00.000-04:00

"Sins are like circles in the water when a stone is thrown into it; one produces another. When anger was in Cain's heart, murder was not far off."
By: Philip Henry

Pastor's Corner

2010-05-29T00:37:00.000-04:00

"Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven."
By: Thomas Brooks

Web Update - 05/18/2010

2010-05-18T21:16:00.001-04:00

The morning sermon for 05/16/2010 has been added to the Sermons page. The morning sermon is titled "Running the Race" by Pastor Richard Collins. The evening service was the final sermon in the ten-week series by Dr. David Jeremiah on the Book of Revelation.

Pastor's Corner

2010-05-17T20:12:00.000-04:00

"Satan, like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish."

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2010-05-12T21:31:00.001-04:00

"The frog and the murmurer, both of them, are bred of the mud."
By: Thomas Adams

Web Update - 05/12/2010

2010-05-12T21:29:00.001-04:00

The morning sermon for 05/09/2010 has been added to the Sermons page. The morning sermon is titled "Mary, Jesus' Mother" by Pastor Glenn Hill. There was not an evening service so that families could celebrate Mother's Day with their families.

Web Update - 05/04/2010

2010-05-04T22:21:00.000-04:00

The morning sermon for 05/02/2010 has been added to the Sermons page. The morning sermon is titled "Noah, Preacher of Righteousness" by Pastor Glenn Hill. The evening service was a sermon in the ten-week series by Dr. David Jeremiah on the Book of Revelation.

Pastor's Corner

2010-05-04T22:05:00.001-04:00

"We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in holy amazement at His unspeakable love."
By: John Owen

Web Update - 04/26/2010

2010-04-26T21:22:00.003-04:00

The morning sermon for 04/25/2010, Family and Friends Day, has been added to the Sermons page. The morning sermon is titled "What God Saved Us From - What He Saved Us To" by Pastor Glenn Hill. We also heard many songs of worship by Surrendered. There was not an evening service.

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2010-04-26T21:16:00.002-04:00

"It can be written on the tomb of an unrepentant sinner... Here lies a man who in all his life never worked one hour for God."
Anonymous

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2010-04-21T18:25:00.001-04:00

"He that says he will be good tomorrow, says he will be wicked today.
By: James Janeway

Web Update - 04/19/2010

2010-04-19T22:15:00.000-04:00

The morning sermon for 04/18/2010 has been added to the Sermons page. The morning sermon is titled "A Living Faith" by Pastor Tim Parker. The evening service was a sermon in the ten-week series by Dr. David Jeremiah on the Book of Revelation.

Web Update - 04/15/2010

2010-04-15T22:42:00.002-04:00

The morning sermon for 04/11/2010 has been added to the Sermons page. The morning sermon is titled "Jesus, Our Advocate" by Pastor David Paramore, Pastor Hill's pastor. The evening service was a sermon in the ten-week series by Dr. David Jeremiah on the Book of Revelation.

Pastor's Corner

2010-04-15T21:07:00.000-04:00

"Repentance is a change of the mind, and regeneration is a change of the man."
--Thomas Adams

Pastor's Corner

2010-04-09T19:02:00.000-04:00

"Man's faith may fail him sometimes, but God's faithfulness never fails him."
--William Greenhill

Web Update - 03/29/2010

2010-03-29T18:07:00.003-04:00

The morning sermon for 03/28/2010 has been added to the Sermons page. The morning sermon is titled "The Drama of Calvary" by Pastor Glenn Hill. The evening service was a wonderful Palm Sunday presentation of "Hosanna in the Highest" by the youth of our church.

Pastor's Corner

2010-03-29T18:06:00.000-04:00

"Those blessings are the sweetest that are won with prayers and worn with thanks."

--Thomas Goodwin

Web Update - 03/22/2010

2010-03-22T20:26:00.000-04:00

The morning sermon for 03/21/2010 has been added to the Sermons page. The morning sermon is titled "Our Relationship to the World" by Pastor Richard Collins. The evening service was a sermon in the ten-week series by Dr. David Jeremiah on the Book of Revelation.

Pastor's Corner

2010-03-22T20:24:00.001-04:00

Conscience is God's spy and man's overseer.

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2010-03-20T21:11:00.002-04:00

"Read the Scripture, not only as a history, but as a love-letter sent to you from God" By: Thomas Watson

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2010-03-09T19:35:00.000-05:00

"It is a far happier thing to be pitied of God, than to be envied of men."
--Sir Richard Baker

Web Update - 03/04/2010

2010-03-04T20:33:00.000-05:00

The announcements have been updated.

Pastor's Corner

2010-03-01T19:49:00.000-05:00

"Unless the being of a God be presupposed, no tolerable account can be given of the being of any thing." --Ezekiel Hopkins

Web Update - 03/01/2010

2010-03-01T19:42:00.002-05:00

The morning sermon for 02/28/2010 has been added to the Sermons page. The morning sermon is titled "The Great Reformer of God's People" by Pastor Tim Parker. The evening service was a great event in the church as Tim Parker was ordained into the gospel ministry. There was a very nice reception afterward in Tim and Karen's honor.

Ask... (Matthew 7:7)

2010-02-22T19:23:00.001-05:00

If we don't receive by asking, then let us seek; if we don't receive by seeking, then let us knock." By: Thomas Manton

Web Update - 02/19/2010

2010-02-19T19:48:00.003-05:00

The morning sermon for 02/14/2010 has been added to the Sermons page. The morning sermon is titled "The Mystery of Godliness" by Pastor Glenn Hill. The evening service was a sermon in the ten-week series by Dr. David Jeremiah on the Book of Revelation.

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The saints of God...

2010-02-16T18:21:00.000-05:00

"The saints of God are sealed inwardly with faith, but outwardly with good works." By: John Boys

Web Update - 02/07/2010

2010-02-09T20:31:00.002-05:00

The morning sermon for 02/07/2010 has been added to the Sermons page. The morning sermon is titled "The Pillar and Ground of the Truth" by Pastor Glenn Hill. The evening service was a sermon in the ten-week series by Dr. David Jeremiah on the Book of Revelation.

Pray...Think About It

2010-02-09T20:02:00.000-05:00

"You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed" --John Bunyan

To Forsake Christ...

2010-02-03T22:24:00.002-05:00

"To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle,... eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow. By: William Jenkyn