Scripture – Acts 2:43- Awe came upon everyone because many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles.  Prayer Focus: When is the last time you were in awe of something?  Maybe it was watching Artemis II launch into space.  Maybe it was having the tiny fingers of your new grandchild wrapped around your

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Scripture – Acts 2:42- They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. Prayer Focus: In these six verses this week, we are seeing before our eyes how the lives of the earliest Christians were transformed.  They didn’t just step up their worship attendance, every aspect of

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Scripture – Today we will be sharing worship with one of our local mission partners in connection to our annual Go-Make-A-Difference Day. Summersby Okey, the Director of Development & Advocacy at Habitat for Humanity of York County will share worship with us today to talk more about the ministry that Habitat does. As we prepare

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Scripture – Matthew 5:48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Prayer Focus: Barbara J. Essex writes, “With the words of this text, Jesus seeks neither to set impossible goals nor shame people who cannot reach perfection.  Instead, he sets forth God’s vision of God’s world, where love, genuine and unconditional, reigns.”  Pray

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Scripture – Matthew 5:47 And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the gentiles do the same? Prayer Focus: Jesus’ followers are called to love like Christ loves.  That means going out of our way to love and care for those who are labeled

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Scripture – Matthew 5:46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? Prayer Focus: Have you ever sang the hymn, “They Will Know We Are Christians by Our Love?”  Christians are not known for loving the people who already love them…followers

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Scripture – Matthew 5:45 so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous. Prayer Focus: Why love people the way God loves us?  Because we are all children of God. 

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Scripture – Matthew 5:44 But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, Prayer Focus:  Jesus is always challenging the disciples to do the opposite of what seems normal and reasonable.  God’s community is filled with people who think of others first…even when those “others,” are people who are

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Scripture – Matthew 5:34 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ Prayer Focus: It is so easy to love your friends and hate your enemy.  Today, all it takes is blocking someone on your cell phone or deleting them from your email or social media account. 

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Scripture – Acts 9:18 18 And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and his sight was restored. Then Paul got up and was baptized, 19 and after taking some food, he regained his strength. Prayer Focus: Without a declaration of faith for himself or anything other than prayer, Saul (now called Paul) is

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