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For Lent, offer your heart

  • By Rev. John E. Flower

It was a discouraging time the people of Palestine, Israel, lived under regional governments, each important to please. Rome occupied this land of God's beloved people, with Roman taxes being collected, often unpredictably and ruthlessly by local Jewish collaborators and sent back to Rome.

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Love of money is the root of all evil

  • By Rev. Jim Davis

When I first began preparing this article, realizing we are in the Easter season, I began to write an article referring to the final weeks of Jesus' earthly ministry.

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Choose life or death

  • By Rev. Rob Hranicky

One of the secrets to life, I believe is momentum the driving force that encourages me to improve and go forward. Within Christianity, this same concept is true. We must grow in the Lord. I Peters 2:2, "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby."

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Do something positive for Lent

  • By Rev. Ed Rudiger

When I was growing up in the South, the season of Lent was not considered all that important, at least not in the church where I was raised.But you know, even then, we all knew that Lent had to do with making some kind of personal sacrifice for about seven weeks.

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Lamentations and Lent

  • By Pastor Gary Brown
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The place was at the old Lutheran Church in Knox.The Knox ministerium was sponsoring a series of Lenten services in various churches.

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Cranberry church concert

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CRANBERRY A concert with Dan Schall will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 12, at the Van, New Life Community Chapel located at 9778 U.S. Route 322 in Cranberry.

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Be a good listener

  • By Rev. John Friedlund

What's the use of hearing if we do not listen? Wow, what a question. It's applicable to husbands and wives; clients and colleagues; doctors and patients; committee members and classmates and customers; teachers and students; caregivers and neighbors and friends.

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Have you left your first love?

It is Valentine's Day season, and love is in the air.This special holiday normally reminds us of our spouse or significant other and the desire to want to celebrate the love we have for them.

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Give the roses now

  • By Rev. Jake Jacobson
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As I climbed the steep stairs to her apartment the smell of Ben Gay became overwhelming. It was my first home visit at my internship site, and I confess that I was more than just a little nervous.

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Temper our manners

  • By Pastor Gary Brown

"Don't rush me, bucko." This is how my friend Steve pushed back when I got a bit too aggressive in inviting him to church.

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Face trials with joy

  • By Rev. John Friedlund

There are times, as I look at the trials people around me are going through, I am moved to tears. I see people who have suffered great loss; People weary under the weight of grief; People whose future is closing in without resembling the one about which they had dreamed.

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Winter without Christmas?

  • By Pastor John Easlon

It is January, which means that you have probably begun to take down your Christmas decorations.Like many of you, Christmas is my favorite season.

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Your story

  • By Jake Jacobson

We live in a reactive society and have for many years.Our language, whether it is political, social, or religious calls for a reactive response.

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Don't put Christmas away

  • By Rev. John E. Flower

Hold on.Don't put Christmas away for today is Christmas for many.Many in Clarion observe western Christianity.

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Simeon's song

  • By Rev. Jim Davis

Luke 2:25-35 says, "And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose namewasSimeon; and the same manwasjust and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the …

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Receive the gift of God

  • By Rob Hranicky

Just around the corner, sooner than we expect, Christmas will be upon us a glorious holiday for all. This is a time of celebration where we gather to enjoy family and friends and thank God for the blessings that he has bestowed on us throughout the year.

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Give a selfless gift

  • By Rev. Ed Rudiger

Christmas is almost here. And even though, about a month ago, I really didn't expect this to happen, I find myself in the same position I seem to be in every year.

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New Hope Church presents live nativity

BROOKVILLE A live Nativity experience, "When love came down" will be presented by the New Hope Community Church of Clarion at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16 and Saturday, Dec. 17, at Stan Fleming's residence located at 17261 State Route 28 in Brookville.

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KUMC hosts Ukraine family

KNOX Knox United Methodist Church will host the Gallagher family, missionaries from Ukraine as well as Romania, on Sunday, Dec. 11 at the church. Todd Gallagher will speak at 8:15 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 11, at the Knox United Methodist Church located at 9729 State Route 338 in Knox.

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First Presbyterian Church hosts cantata

CLARION The First Presbyterian Church of Clarion invites you to join them as they present the Christmas Cantata, "God with Us," at 10 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 11 at the church located at 700 Wood Street in Clarion.

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Embrace hope 1222

  • Rev. John Friedlund

This past Sunday marked the beginning of Advent. The Advent season is a four week period leading up to Christmas that celebrates the anticipation and coming of Jesus Christ, the Messiah.

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Rejoice, pray and give thanks

  • Rev. Josh Easlon

Have you ever wondered what God's will is for your life?I am sure you have, at the very least, pondered over this question a few times.

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Rejoice, pray and give thanks

  • Rev. Josh Easlon

Have you ever wondered what God's will is for your life?I am sure you have, at the very least, pondered over this question a few times.

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St. Mary hosts Christmas show

CROWN St. Mary's Church will hold a Christmas Holiday Craft Show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 2 and Saturday, Dec. 3 at the St. Mary's Social Hall in Crown.

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Fall reverie

  • Rev. Harold ‘Jake’ Jacobson

Autumn is my favorite time of year.The nights grow longer, and the trees exchange their summer green for a wardrobe of bright colors. It is a time of retrospection and reverie.

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Wisor speaks at Leatherwood

NEW BETHLEHEM Bishop Jack Wisor will be speaking on "Hope for the Homeless" at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13, at the Leatherwood Church in New Bethlehem.

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Let Jesus be your light

  • Rev. John E. Flower

You likely have noticed as we move through autumn the days are shorter and the nights are longer.The darkness will continue to outlast the light through Dec. 21, which is the longest night of the year and the least amount of daylight only a little more than nine hours.

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Pray for America 1122

  • Rev. Jim Davis

Psalm 11:1-7, "In the Lordput I my trust: how say ye to my soul, fleeasa bird to your mountain? For, lo, the wicked bendtheirbow they make ready their arrow upon the string that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Edenburg welcomes new pastor
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Edenburg welcomes new pastor

KNOX The Edenburg Presbyterian Church is excited to welcome their new pastor, Rev. David Crapnell. Join the church in welcoming him as its new pastor at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6, at the church located at 405 Main Street in Knox.

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Calvary's Love Trio concert

CRANBERRY A concert with Calvary's Love Trio will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, at the Van, New Life Community Chapel located at 9778 U.S. Route 322 in Cranberry.

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Science of differences

  • Rev. Rob Hranicky

Amos 3:3 says, "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" It's hard to walk with someone without disagreeing at some time and very few people agree on everything together.

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I could never live in Florida

  • Rev. ed Rudiger

I could never live in Florida; period, close the book, Elvis has left the building. And this is something I believe with great certainty and passion.

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Works in progress

  • Rev. Gary Brown

It began for me as a child.My parents always took us to church. I would sit by my grandparents in worship.I always went to Sunday school and Vacation Bible School.

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Enjoy God's creations and worship him

  • Rev. John Friedlund

"In the beginning God," Genesis 1:1, these are the first words of Holy Scripture and they remind us of who is responsible for our existence, and our enjoyment of the Earth and its splendor.

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Jesus' abundant blessings

  • Rev. John Flower

I like picnics.Picnics are great.I've made a life-long practice of attending picnics.The end of summer seems to be picnic season good friends, good food and good times.

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Do you want to be made well?

  • Rev. Josh Easlon

John 5:5-9 states, "Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had beenin that conditiona long time, He said to him,‘Do you want to be made well?'

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Witnesses resume visits

Jehovah's Witnesses resumed their trademark door-to-door ministry Sept. 1 after a two-and-half-year suspension of the work was officially lifted, just in time to begin a global campaign featuring a new interactive Bible study program.