Being a servant of God

The Bondservant’s Life was a book that not only challenges your understanding of what it means to follow God but also lays the foundation in helping you understand the Bible as a whole.  This book defines what it means to be a bondservant of God.  The key verse of this book is Revelation 1:1 where Jesus is revealing the things that are to come to his servants.  The author then explains how the book of Revelation is written to God’s servants and until we understand what it means to be a servant of God, then we will not be able to understand the prophesies in this book.  The author then explains in detail what a bondservant is all about.  To do this, he goes back to the Old Testament law and describes bondservants in the nation of Israel.  Bondservants were people who willing stayed and served their masters because of their love for their masters.  Every Christian is then called to serve God, our master, out of our love for Him.  A bondservant’s life will be characterized by pursing God through his word, live a life of complete obedience to God and walking totally dependent upon the Holy Spirit.  Every single Christian is called to this radical commitment to God.

This book is a wonderful read and you will be challenged in your walk with God, but a word of caution needs to be said.  This book is not a book that is fluffy and easy to read.  This book will take time to read because of the depth of the material.  This book is quite meaty with Biblical truth that can change your life.

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6 Verses That Can Change Your Life

When I first received the book 6 Verses That Can Change Your Life and saw that it was endorsed by Max Lucado, I thought that this book was going to be good. I would like to tell you that this book definitely lived up to my expectations. This book not only reminds us of six simple truths through six Bible verses, but through Joe Barnett’s personal stories the reader begins to see just how much these 6 verses need to be memorized and applied to our daily life.

The book is divided into six sections, one section for each verse. The sections are:
1. Trust – Proverbs 3:5
2. Assurance – Ephesians 3:20
3. Courage – Joshua 1:9
4. Patience – Psalm 27:14
5. Peace – 1 Peter 5:7
6. Joy – Psalm 118:24

 In each of the sections, Mr. Barnett introduces the topic and the verse in a section prologue. He then explains what the verse means and how the verse can be applied to our daily lives through both Biblical and personal stories. Then at the end of each section, he gives us resolutions to help us apply this verse to our lives. 

One thing that I really enjoyed about this book was how practical Mr. Barnett is throughout the book. As a pastor myself, I work hard to help people understand that the Bible is more then just an old book teaching us things about God, but that it is practical and needs to be followed in our day to day life. This book does just that. By memorizing these six verses, and applying them to our lives, we can really change and become more like Jesus in our daily lives. When we understand that we can trust God, that we have assurance that God is always with us, that we can have courage and do not need to be afraid, that we need to have patience in our lives by waiting on God, that we can have true peace by giving God all your worries, and we can have joy in our lives, then no matter what our external circumstances may be we can have hope and encouragement to continue to follow God.

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The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus Series

The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus - VideoBook

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Your teacher will take these individual elements and chronologically tie them together into one universal drama. Whether you have significant Bible knowledge, or have never read "the Book"—this online series is for you.

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News Article in Albion News

We wanted to inform you about a wonderful surprise we had these past two weeks. As you know, we have been working to restart Pennside Community Church. This past weekend we had an Easter Fun Day for the kids and we wanted to publize this event in the community, so we just wrote a simple email to the local newspaper. The editor emailed back and asked if she could talk to us about our plans at Pennside because she wanted to do a feature in the Newspaper. I went and talked to the editor and she wrote the article. When we picked up the newspaper on April 1, to our surprise we saw a picture of the church on the front page with the title "Pennside Community Church reopens." The artcile turned out well, the only problem is that the color of the picture did not turn out. I guess the printer mixed up the organge ink with the blue. Anyways, we hope you enjoy the article below.

Answers in Genesis

These past three months at Uniontown Heights have been interesting during the Sunday School hour. This past Sunday we finished a twelve part video series called "Answers with Ken Ham." This series is all about being able to defend the Bible from the very first verse, which is "In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth." Ken Ham teaches in this series the importance of taking the Bible's account of Genesis 1-11 literally. Many people today, even Christians tend to throw out these chapters or try to reinterpret them in order to fit them with science. Ken Ham teaches that we need to start with the Bible, to put our our "Biblical glasses" and view the world around us in this manner. But even Christians who take this position struggle with what science and evolution teaches and in this series he addresses some of the issues people use to prove that the Bible is wrong. For example he talks about dinosaurs in the Bible, how all the races of people go back to one man and one woman, proof for a worldwide flood, the problem with suffering and diseases in our world. He touches on ten different topics that many Christians ask when it comes to Genesis 1-11.
The videos have been exciting to watch, but for us watching the people in the Sunday School class think about the Bible and struggle with some of these issues have been even more exciting. People began to have a hunger for God's Word and realized that true science does not contradict, but actually affirms what the Bible teaches. God is working in people's lives at Uniontown Heights church as we all seek to stand firmly upon the Word of God without compromise. I am reminded of the children's song "The B-I-B-L-E" which says, "the B-i-b-l-e, yes that's the book for me, I stand alone on the Word of God, the B-i-b-l-e." Let us stand upon God's Word alone, which is what the the protestant reforms cried when they cried, "sola Scriptura" (Scripture alone).

Pennside Community Church

This past week, the Lord has really been opening doors for us here in Northwest PA. Let me tell you about an answer to prayer about one of the churches we are working with. Pennside Community Church, located around Albion, PA, has been closed for the past two years. The last time any time of service/outreach was done in the church was four or five years ago. We heard about Pennside through the retire missionary and then began contacting people associated with the church. Through this process we became aware of a gentleman who wanted to buy the property of the church, since his property literally surrounds the church. We did not know what was going to happen. We figure that we would winterize the church, fix the broken windows and wait to spring to see what would happen with the church.

We began talking to the gentleman who was seeking to buy the property and he told us that he still wanted it to be a church. He is a Catholic man who wants at least his children to go to church and hear the Christian Gospel. He told us that he also thinks that it would be wonderful for the community to have a church there again.

This past Tuesday, January 13, we received a call from him saying that he officially owns the church and that when spring comes he wants to begin fixing the interior and add running water so that we will be able to use it in the summer for outreaches. He told us that even though he owns the church property, we will be the ones in charge of the church. This is great news and a huge answer to prayer.

Please pray for this entire situation. Please pray that God would continue to work on this man's heart. We will keep you posted about this project.