28
Nov
Carol of the Bells
It’s Christmas Time, Enjoy! Soli Deo Gloria!
Author: wfelmlee
08
Nov
How should we listen to sermons?
Listening to the Word of God when it is preached from J.C. Ryle It is not enough that we go to church and hear sermons. We may do so for fifty years, and be nothing better, but rather worse. “Take heed,” says our Lord, “how you hear.” Would any one know how to hear properly? Then let them lay to heart three simple rules. 1) We must hear with FAITH, believing implicitly that every word of God is true, and shall stand. The word in old time did not profit the Jews, since it was “not mixed with faith in those who heard it” (Heb. 4:2). 2) We must hear with REVERENCE, remembering constantly that the Bible is the book of God. This was the habit of the Thessalonians. They received Paul’s message, “not as the word of men, but the word of God” (1 Thess. 2:13). 3) We must hear with PRAYER, praying for God’s blessing before the sermon is preached, praying for God’s blessing again when the sermon is over. Here lies the grand defect of the hearing of many. They ask no blessing, and so they have none. The sermon passes through their minds like water through a leaky vessel, and leaves nothing behind. ► Summary: Let us bear these rules in mind every Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached. Let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if it mattered not in what way such work was done. Let us carry with usfaith, reverence, and prayer. If these three are our companions, we will hear with profit, and return with praise. ~ J.C. Ryle soli deo gloria
07
Oct
Matthew Smith and Indelible Grace in concert
Join us on October 21st at 7 pm for a night of music and worship as we welcome Matthew Smith and Indelible Grace. Tickets are free but you must email the church at info@hopeatcenterhill.com or call 814-591-6108 to reserve them. Everyone but especially worship Leaders, Pastors and church musicians, are invited to a seminar on the use of hymns in our worship services conducted by Matthew at 5 pm. Our church has used Matthew Smith’s “Lord Jesus, Comfort me” for a couple of years now to prepare our hearts for the Easter season and during our celebration of the Lord’s supper. Check out the video below. soli deo gloria!
30
Sep
Matthew Smith and Indelible Grace in concert
Matthew Smith and Indelible Grace will be in concert here at Center Hill on October 21 at 7 pm. The concert is free but tickets are required. Email the church at info@hopeatcenterhill.com or call 814-591-6108 to reserve your tickets now. To see Matthew’s heart for Christ, the Church and hymns, check out the video below. soli deo gloria
12
Sep
Matthew Smith and Indelible Grace in concert
We are excited to announce that Matthew Smith and Indelible Grace will be presenting a night concert and seminar on Tuesday, October 21 at Center Hill Community Church. The concert will begin at 7:00 pm and the seminar by Matthew Smith on using hymns in our worship will be presented at 5:00 pm. The concert and seminar are open to the public as a ministry of CHCC. There will be no charge for the concert or seminar but tickets are required. Please contact the church office at 814-591-6108 for your tickets. To prepare us for the concert, we will be featuring Matthew Smith and Indelible Grace music on our site between now and October 21st. Check out the below video for an updated hymn written by Charles Wesley a few years ago and sung by our artists entitled “Arise My Soul Arise”. soli deo gloria
22
Jul
It’s a joy!
Wow it’s been awhile! So sorry. No excuses, just an apology. “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” These words of Jesus have echoed in the hearts and the actions of our folks from Center Hill in the past weeks. No public recognition in this post, just a general acknowledgment of the love of a people for their Lord as demonstrated by their love for each other. Also a Pastor’s heart felt thank you to all those who have taken of their time and resources to reach out to those inside and out of our church. It is sometimes difficult, as Pastor, to keep focused and not become discouraged in ministry. This has been very rare as your Pastor here at CHCC and recent months have been no different. You constantly reach out to show Christ. Nothing lifts the spirits of a Pastor more than to see the people of his congregation be changed by the preaching of the Word. The past 20 months we have walked through the book of John and have had our view of Jesus and His glory expanded dramatically. This has resulted in our teens nearly demanding a short term missions trip, work teams providing remodeling for folks, helpful dinners provided, 5 day clubs hosted and taught, funeral luncheons, and weeping with those who weep and rejoicing with those who rejoice. Ladies counseling one another and carrying one another’s burdens have become common place in our church in the past several months. New teachers, new musicians, new resolve. Insert a smile on a Pastor’s face right here. Thank you Center Hill for making it a joy to be a Pastor here. soli deo gloria
02
Jun
It’s here folks, we must decide.
Check out Al Mohler’s article on the issue we have discussed recently and must make a firm decision on as a congregation! No third way soli deo gloria
25
Apr
The perverseness of sin
A great young lady and lover of Christ wrote this blog after beginning her study of Dave Harvey’s ‘When Sinners Say I Do’. Our church folks began this study last month during our Midweek Refresh and have truly been blessed and challenged. I was going to blog each week on the current chapter but I couldn’t say it better than how my ‘niece’ has. Thanks Kimmy http://takingjoyinthelord.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/a-healthy-view-of-sin/ soli deo gloria
09
Mar
God’s works displayed
Penn View Bible Institute’s Praise Singers presented a concert of gospel music this morning before our message. What a wonderful group of guys who love the Lord and CAN SING. Our folks were all blessed by their music and their testimony in word and deed. Thanks guys, you were a witness of Christ to CHCC. Our message this morning, began a 3 part message of John 9 verses 1 through 17, the blind beggar man and the work of God being displayed in his suffering. There is no more important message preached by myself than this one. We Christ followers must have a sound theology of human suffering and God’s sovereignty to make sense of our lives. The Bible does not let it up to each of us to guess or make up ‘wise human advice’ to explain pain and suffering, it gives clear explanation to the deepest of our pains. It is so that the works of God might be displayed in our suffering. No blog or short message series can rightly explain all of God’s purposes as we walk through the individual trials of this life. It is safe to say however, no essential to believe, that we worship a great God who is in control of every aspect of our lives. And that this great God is loving and good and purposes that his mighty works be on display through my suffering. My suffering can only be understood in relation to God. When I try to explain it simply in terms of happenstance or fate or chance, I not only diminish God but find myself at a complete lose to see hope in my pain. We worship a majestic and powerful God, who knits together the disabled child in the womb (psalm 139) and makes the mouth of man mute (exodus 4). In all things including each of these sufferings, God is putting His works on display. His purposes are sure and His ways good. We might not understand those purposes but when we don’t see the hand of God revealed we must trust His promises. Join us for the next couple of weeks as we expand our intimacy of Jesus and come to a proper understanding of the pain and suffering of life. soli deo gloria
10
Feb
Love this church
You gotta love a church that loves the Word of God and has a sled riding hill right outside it’s door. Bring on the rest of the winter!!!!! Soli Deo Gloria