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Are you graduating? Calling All 2020 Graduates!
Attention: High school and college graduates!
Cedar Hills will be recognizing our graduates on May 24th. Please register to be recognized by filling out this form. It asks the following:
- A current picture (senior picture)
- A baby picture
- School from which you are graduating & any honors/degrees
- What’s next?
- Words of the wise…
HS graduates – what is your advice to those entering HS?
College graduates – what is your advice to those entering college?
This information will be used to create a slideshow for our worship service on May 24th. Also, graduates will be featured in the June edition of CHIPS!
Worship & Links 5-3-20
Links for Sunday, May 3, 2020 |
Sunday, May 3, 2020
Video Highlights:
Cedar Hills Kids:
News:
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Do You Have a Friend?
Mary and I miss you. We like some time to ourselves but this current isolation is making us stir-crazy. We hope to see you in person soon!
One of our quarantine escapes has been watching the show Everwood. Everyone in this show is looking for connection. They want, and need, friends. It made me think, everyone needs a friend. That made me think of songs about friendship.
- You’ve got a friend in me.
- Friends are friends forever.
- What a friend we have in Jesus.
- We’ll get by with a little help from our friends.
- Come on let me tell you about my best friend.
- Thank you for being my friend.
Maybe this time of isolation will help us realize how much we belong. Or don’t belong. How much we long for the same thing the gang from Cheers wanted. “Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.”
Proverbs 17:17 describes the love of a good friend. “Friends love through all kinds of weather, and families stick together in all kinds of trouble.”
Proverbs 18:24 offers a warning and an encouragement. “One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”
Do you have a friend?
Love. Belong. Serve.
Pastor Kent
P.S. You’ve Got a Friend In Me link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukD8zj6ngVY
4-12-20 Worship Live 11am
Sunday, April 19, 2020
Video Highlights:
News:
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Easter 2020
| He is Risen! Easter Sunday Service |
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Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020
Note from Pastor Kent: He Is Risen! As I prepared for Easter a Headline caught my eye – The Resurrection has not been Canceled. Timothy Dalrymple shared his thoughts about the resurrection based on Philippians 3:“I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.” (Philippians 3:10–11) This is how Timothy concluded his blog: “Church doors are closed. Schools are no longer meeting. Businesses are shuttered. Restaurants and cafés are empty, cinema screens are dark, and concert halls are silent. Countless meetings and gatherings, weddings and funerals, conferences and events have been canceled. The resurrection is not canceled. God is always in the business of bringing life out of death. Jesus emerged from the tomb so that we can do the same—on Easter and every other day. There is nothing in all the world that could have stopped the resurrection of Jesus Christ two thousand years ago, and there is nothing that can stop it today. We worship the God of empty tombs. We worship the God of resurrections. We implore you, O Lord, bring life out of death again today. Let it start in us.” “See” you on Sunday. He is Risen!!! Pastor Kent Landhuis Video updates:
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Palm Sunday Pancakes – Gallery!
Thank you to everyone who submitted their Palm Sunday pancake pictures. Even though we were not together to enjoy breakfast at church, it was beautiful to see many carrying on the tradition of Palm Sunday pancakes in your homes! Enjoy this gallery of images:
Lent 2020 – Day 36
Matthew 25:31-46
The Sheep and the Goats
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
Today’s Worship Service is online 4-1-20
Today’s Worship Link & Holy Week Schedule
WORSHIP LINK FOR TODAY:
VIDEO (full service) https://vimeo.com/403072189
AUDIO (sermon only) http://tiny.cc/8mjbmz
HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE
- Sunday, April 5: Palm Sunday Pancakes-at home
- It’s been a tradition to have a pancake breakfast on Palm Sunday.
- This year, make pancakes with your family before the 11am live worship service and send us a picture of your Palm Sunday pancake breakfast.
- Wednesday, April 8: Zoom Prayer Meeting at 6:30 PM. Stay tuned for the link.
- Thursday, April 9: Maundy Thursday Worship
- Saturday, April 11: Easter Sign Celebration (follow the instructions below)
- Sunday, April 12: Easter Worship Online
EASTER SIGN CELEBRATION
Looking for a way to celebrate Easter with your family? Encourage the community by creating an Easter display to celebrate God’s love.
- Include a heart and something related to Easter
- Put sign or sculpture in two spots!
- on church property (along E Ave to the corner and along Stoney Point Rd to the corner) on April 11th, so people driving by can see them Easter day
- and in your own yard (to create conversations with neighbors and share hope!
- Pray and read Acts 2:22-24 together (listed below with discussion questions).
- Snap a picture and share on Cedar Hills Community Church Facebook page.
Sign Tips
- Bigger is better!
- It’s windy; make sure to secure your sign/sculpture.
- We have “some” stakes near the entrance to the church, but bring your own if possible and something to secure it to the stake.
Acts 2:22-24 together:
22 “People of Israel, listen! God publicly endorsed Jesus the Nazarene by doing powerful miracles, wonders, and signs through him, as you well know. 23 But God knew what would happen, and his prearranged plan was carried out when Jesus was betrayed. With the help of lawless Gentiles, you nailed him to a cross and killed him. 24 But God released him from the horrors of death and raised him back to life, for death could not keep him in its grip.
Discussion questions:
- Why did Jesus die? (We see here, it is part of God’s prearranged plan)
- “Death could not keep him (Jesus),” how powerful is Jesus, that death couldn’t stop him?
How does this give us hope in bad times?
Lent 2020 – Day 30
Matthew 23:1-22
A Warning Against Hypocrisy
23 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3 So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. 4 They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
5 “Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries[a] wide and the tassels on their garments long; 6 they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; 7 they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others.
8 “But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. 9 And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. 10 Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. 11 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees
13 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. [14] [b]
15 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
16 “Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.’ 17 You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? 18 You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.’ 19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 Therefore, anyone who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21 And anyone who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. 22 And anyone who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the one who sits on it.