Wednesday April 4 – 6pm Worship & Dinner Hart Congregational (HCUCC)

Thursday April 5 – 7:30am Prayer and Communion HUMC

7pm Maundy Thursday Service HUMC

Friday April 6 – 1pm Good Friday Service HCUCC

6-9pm Prayer Walk & Meditation (self-directed) HUMC

Easter Sunday April 8  - 8 am SONrise Worship Celebration HUMC

9am – Easter Family Breakfast

10:30am – Easter Worship

The great paradox [of my life] is that every time I walk into a prison and see the faces of men or women who have been
transformed by the power of the living God, I realize that the thing God has chosen to use in my life … is none of the successes, achievements,
degrees, awards, honors, or cases I won before the Supreme Court. That's not what God's using in my life. What God is using in my life to touch
the lives of literally thousands of other people is the fact that I was a convict and went to prison. That was my great defeat, the only thing in my life I didn't succeed in.

Chuck Colson, Sermon "The Gravy Train Gospel," PreachingToday.com

1. "For a lot of people, there was a storm before the storm."
   
   I read that from a Facebook post by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's Rapid Response Force and it struck me how true that is. We've all read about the homeowners who just recovered from the spring tornadoes destroying their houses - only to have this new storm level their rebuilt house, again.
   
   But, beyond that, it is like my patients. They may have diabetes, poor circulation, nerve damage, sores, etc. but also have heart disease, cancer. etc. And have a child die. Or be going through a divorce. Or lose their job...and have no insurance now. 
   
   No one goes through life unscathed or unscarred. That is why Jesus is the Great Physician...to heal all those things.
   
   Many of us help with disaster relief and get focused on the tasks at hand - tarping the roof, clearing the trees and debris, etc. But, sometimes, the greatest help we can give is to actually listen to the homeowner for it is only then that we may find out about the other storms that have been buffeting their souls.
   
   The blessing - and terror - is to realize that sometimes, Jesus chooses to let us be part of the process of calming those storms and healing the wounds. And it isn't even up to us to do the healing, we just have to be obedient - and go when called.
   
   Richard Kuhn

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You're not so bad that you can't come to Jesus and not so good that you don't need to!

When I was a boy, my Arkansas cousins moved to California for two years. When they moved back, they  talked funny. Just living in California for two years influenced how they said "You guys" and how often they said it. I prefer "Y'all" to "You guys" any day.  My cousins promised me they didn't try to talk funny, but living with those Californians rubbed off on them.

My wife can just talk to her sister on the phone and I notice a change in her accent. When she hears a New Mexican accent, I ask, "What accent is that?" She says, "That is no, accent at all, unlike your Texan."

The same is true with the world's system and values. We, by sinful nature, pick up the values, principles and goals of our society much the same way. James spelled it out clearly in black and white, revealing again the sinfulness of just a minor adjustment in our lives created by the world system.

Jas 4:4 "You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."

Both writers point out the polar differences in God's way and the World's way. If you are influenced by the world, James says you stand against God; John says you are devoid of His love.

Richard Kuhn

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A young man wrote this to his girlfriend. “Sweetheart, if this world
was as hot as the Sahara desert, I would crawl on my knees through the
burning sand to come to you. If the world would be like the Atlantic
Ocean, I would swim through shark infested waters to come to you. I
would fight the most fiercest dragon to be by your side. I will see you on Thursday - as long as it doesn't rain.”
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Sounds like a lot of our commitment to Christ. Oh so great on paper or profession, but a little weak when storms roll in.