Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Combined Service Announced

Please Note: 

On April 25th CRF will have a combined service with the members of Providence church in Mifflin.   Please feel free to join us.  Worship is from 10:30-12:00 and Rev. Timmons will be preaching.  Providence meets in the Community Center (Lions Club Building) on State Route 603 in the center of Mifflin across from The Mifflin Trading Post.  (Map).

Resurrection Praise

The rock trembled before you and the mighty soldiers became paralyzed with fear. The earth heaved and the grave did give up its possession. Christ our King walked forth victoriously. None could stop his conquest.


So we shout this morning with songs of praise to our mighty Deliverer. We rejoice in his redemption. While others wallow under the grip of death, we sing songs of gladness and joy. For a door has been opened to us and heaven’s gates cannot be closed to the chosen of God.

Therefore we confess the Day of the Lord. This day is yours. You have set it apart for yourself and you sanctified it with the resurrection of Your Son.

So let a resurrection occur today. May the deadness of our sin be continually overcome and may we rise with new obedience because your life giving Word has come to rest in our hearts.

Spiritual Traitors

Blessed God,


How shall we express the depth of depravity and the sorrow we feel for it. You have raised us from the dead and promised us everlasting life, but we have seen fit to dwell in the tomb and we have chosen to wear the rags of death and folly.

Forgive us, O God, for not hastening on in the faith. Forgive us for not pressing the victory of Christ to the very end. We admit before you that we have not sought to resist temptation like we should and we have often become the enemy’s friend.

Such a traitorous spirit deserves a terrible end. We know that treason is punishable by death.

But we come to you, O God, looking for your mercy and forgiveness. We pray moreover that you would bind our hearts and fetter our wayward spirits. God, how we wish we had never left your ranks and would never desire to turn from your way.

Though we have been slow to do battle against the flesh and have often given the enemy a foothold over us, do forgive us. And may you loosen the chains that do bind now bind us so that we can walk in the way that we ought.

For we ask this in the strong Name of our Risen Savior. Amen.