Friday night, April 8th, is our next Community Worship Night. We will be meeting at the Knights of Columbus, located at 366 East Broad Street at 7:00 for a time of corporate worship. Please come out and bring a friend with you to pour out our hearts in worship, love and thanksgiving for the extravagant, merciful goodness of...
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A Week to Live: The Triumphal Entry
The last week of Jesus’ life began with Him riding into Jerusalem on a donkey, presenting Himself and being recognized by the people of Israel as the Messiah. Within a few short days, many of the same people that shouted “Hosanna!” as He rode to Jerusalem were rejecting Him. What happened to make such a drastic...
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“Girls Night Out”, Friday March 25th
Friday, March 25th at 6:30 pm (last Friday of every month) At Julie Juliano’s 425 Fernwood Avenue “Italian Night” This is a great time to get together and enjoy good food, good fellowship and definitely laughter. It’s an opportunity to reach out and invite our friends that may not be comfortable in a church setting,...
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A Last Supper Celebration, Friday April 22nd
Please join us for a celebration of the Last Supper on Good Friday, April 22nd at 7:00 PM at 945 Bordentown Road in Burlington. The Last Supper was Jesus’ celebration of passover with His disciples. On that night He gave us the gift of communion. We are going to spend the evening in fellowship learning...
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A Study of the Book of Romans, Wednesday, March 23rd
Join us a we study the book of Romans throughout 2011. We will be meeting every other Wednesday night to study this important New Testament letter verse by verse. Our next class will be Wednesday, March 23th from 7:00 PM -8:15 PM at 18 East Broad Street, Burlington, NJ 08016. We meet on the 2nd...
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Unburdened
In the midst of his first letter, as John was writing to the church of the importance and power of love, of faith and of obedience he made a short but powerful statement, “This is love for God: to obey His commands. And His commands are not burdensome”. My question for today is, if God’s...
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Year to Increase: Encouragement
When we presented the 2011: Year to Increase plan in December, one of our concerns was how to keep the plan and the progress in front of us throughout the course of an entire year. One of the ways we decided upon was to stop after each preaching series and remind ourselves of what we have been...
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Community Worship Night, Friday, March 11th
Friday night, March 11th, is our next Community Worship Night. We will be meeting at the Knights of Columbus, located at 366 East Broad Street at 7:00 for a time of corporate worship and prayer. Please come out and bring a friend with you to pour out our hearts in worship, love and thanksgiving for the extravagant, merciful...
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The Gifts of the Holy Spirit: Operation
If the purpose of the “gifts of the Holy Spirit” is to build unity and strength in the body of Christ then how must we operate in those gifts? I believe that Romans 12 gives us two very key themes to answer that question: grace and love. Paul writes that the gifts differ “according to the grace that...
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The Gifts of the Holy Spirit: Purpose
In both Romans 12 and I Corinthians 12 the Apostle Paul tells us about the “gifts of the Holy Spirit”. The Corinthians passage gives us a list of things that Paul refers to while in Romans Paul seems to be much more concerned with following through with those gifts than with giving a list of...