Thought of the Day: Hymn Week. This week I decided to share some of the lines from my favorite hymns. What are your favorite hymns? I’d love to know. In this age of COVID, we’ll have to be creative about how we sing together, but music is as important now as ever.Today, from the hymn...
Thought of the Day: A simple morning prayer:God, please enlighten my mind with truth, inflame my heart with love, inspire my will with courage, enrich my life with service. Pardon what I have been, sanctify what I am, and order what I shall be. Amen - Author Unknown Featured...
Thought of the Day: Come thou Fount of Every Blessing I liked the hymn idea from last week, so today’s hymn is “Come thou Fount of Every Blessing” Let the words sit with your soul for a moment:Come, Thou Fount of every blessingTune my heart to sing Thy graceStreams of mercy...
Thought of the Day: Great is Thy Faithfulness - Today, read these familiar hymn lyrics andvenjoy.Great is Thy faithfulness, " O God my Father,There is no shadow of turning with Thee;Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail notAs Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be."Great is Thy...
Thought of the Day: Saturday Service Sneak Peek - Here’s the scripture for this coming Saturday’s service. Take a look and see what you think. What does this passage have to say about fear? God’s Commission to Joshua1 After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord...
Thought of the Day: A Prayer in a time of National Crisis. Though the news may not always qualify as “crisis” these days, I came across this prayer and thought it was particularly compelling: God of the ages, in your sight nations rise and fall, and pass through times of peril. Now...
Thought of the Day: A Prayer for Labor Day: Almighty God, Creator of the world, we give you thanks for the gift of stewardship and work. Deliver us, in our various occupations, from the service of self alone, that we may do our work in truth and beauty and for the common. God of justice, we pray...
Dear Elmhurst Presbyterian Church Members and Friends -Good Morning, Friends -This is the day that the LORD has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!Here are the Sunday morning links for you for today, September 6, 2020● Our service link is HERE.● The scripture reading is Psalm...
Thought of the Day: The Liturgy of the Ordinary. Tomorrow we’ll begin our sermon series on the Liturgy of the Ordinary. It’s the idea that the ordinary things we do in life have big impact on our spiritual growth andfaith, especially if we’re paying attention. What ordinary...
Thought of the Day: Fear. This year I learned a new word doom scrolling. It’s going through social media and scrolling through all the bad news as your anxiety ratchets up. I see a lot of fear in the headlines and on the media these days. Fear gets our attention, that’s for sure. For...