Ash Wednesday Worship Audio

I am trying to post the most recent worship service to the Chirbit site as soon as possible. Please give me your feed back as we try and develop this ministry to our shut-ins and others. We have made available two cuts of this service. The short form includes the lessons, Creed and the message, while the Full Service choice is the full service including the pre-service hymn sing. We pray that you will enjoy hearing God's word and having the opportunity to join others in worship.

February 17, 2010 Short Form (just click on the words Short Form for the link)

February 17, 2010 Full Service (just click on the words Full Service for the link)

Blessings & Peace,

Pastor John

Audio Recordings of the Service

Today I would like to share with you two links to Zion's last two worship services. The internet has opened a wide range of opportunities to us to share God's message of love and grace with our members and the people of our community. So I am placing these links to our last two Sunday worship services on in this blog. While this is a test in some respect, your feed back will also allow us to improve how we present this and what we make available to you. Bridging the gap and making connection with people so that they might see and know for certain what our Savior is really like is our goal.

Sunday, February 7, 2010 Worship Service can be found at this link: http://chirb.it/7O90br

Sunday, February 14, 2010 Worship Service can be found at this link: http://chirb.it/Gd1F1r

Thank you for reading this blog and taking the time to give us some feedback.

Thanks for listening.

Blessings & Peace,

Pastor John

Do you Look Forward to the Sermon?

Sermons account for a large portion of the time in worship. However, do people look forward to listening to the sermon? According to a BBC News article found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8467504.stm most people do. The article states, "Researchers at Durham University found 60% of churchgoers felt sermons gave them a sense of God's love." I think it would be nice if we could get a better idea of what people read do take home from our sermons. Sometime we get very little feed back from members so we wonder about the effectiveness of our messages. Having said that I think was also need to remember slow growth comes over time so we may not see nor understand the effect of a message for some period of time. What do you listen for when you listen to a sermon. Do you listen to hear the Law and how it impacts our lives? Do you wait expectantly to hear the healing grace of the Gospel? I think we must remember that both are vital to our healing and growth. With out proper diagnosis the doctor does not know what to treat or how to treat it. And once the doctor knows what the condition is, then he or she can treat it with the right kind and amount of medicine.

Blessings & Peace as you listen to God's Word,

Pastor John

Hebrews 13:20-21