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October 2021

2021-10-31 Hybrid Worship

By Intersections, Sermons

We are ready for you inside our historic, beautiful Red Brick Church or, join us on YouTube Live!

Get Your Worship Guide Here (click here) Scroll down for worship preview!

Whatever your religious affiliation, or none at all, we will all hear Jesus say, “Come to me all who are overburdened, and find rest for your soul!” Everyone is welcomed at Cold Spring Church. Yes, everyone!

Enjoy sitting with others from greater Cape May as we worship together. We simplified our service and made it even easier to participate, with our Worship Guide and lyric videos displayed on a large screen.

Join Our New YouTube Live Stream! (click here)

No internet? No problem!

If you don’t have internet access, just use our call-in number from your phone: +1 (929) 205-6099. Enter Meeting ID: 882-3154-2428 Password: 1714.

 

 

 

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This week our worship experience is rooted in the great Protestant Reformation when we celebrate the courage and faith of German monk Martin Luther. Beginning in 1517, Luther and many other women and men challenged the Church to get back to life’s basics and the spiritual heart of the matter: Christ alone, Scripture alone, and Faith alone. We are delighted to welcome back to the pulpit this week the Rev. Larry Moyer while Pastor Kevin and Melissa are away. Let’s be open to God’s love and the transformational relationship God desires with us in mind, body, and spirit, the very essence of who we are. Invite a friend to worship with you as we get to the heart of the matter together.

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We will enjoy a Hymn Sing this week! Plus, a beautiful solo and a music and lyric video that will energize our worship experience and stir our spirits!

“…That you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” (Eph. 3:18).

Due to the spike in cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in Cape May County, masks are again required, even for fully vaccinated worshippers.Worship Your Way! In-Person, or Online. Masks are optional for vaccinated worshippers.

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. Once you and your family are ready for worship at home, share the picture with us by posting to Facebook #ColdSpringChurch or Instagram #coldspringchurchnj. If you’re in the sanctuary, feel free to share photos or text friends about what you are learning! Subscribe to our weekly Connections email newsletter. Sign up here!

Energize your life and discover the amazing love of Jesus! This week is the perfect time to join us in person for worship. Enjoy live music and solo, lyric videos, and a message of hope from God’s word.

We are excited to welcome to worship all who are able and comfortable in-person in our historic Red Brick Church on Sundays at 10:30 AM. Your safety, health, and wellness are our top priority. Following the guidance from the CDC and health officials, we have implemented safety protocols and designed an approximately forty-minute worship experience that will be spiritually energizing and safe for you, your family, and other worshippers.

2021-10-24 Hybrid Worship

By Intersections, Sermons

We are ready for you inside our historic, beautiful Red Brick Church or, join us on YouTube Live!

Get Your Worship Guide Here (click here) Scroll down for worship preview!

Whatever your religious affiliation, or none at all, we will all hear Jesus say, “Come to me all who are overburdened, and find rest for your soul!” Everyone is welcomed at Cold Spring Church. Yes, everyone!

Enjoy sitting with others from greater Cape May as we worship together. We simplified our service and made it even easier to participate, with our Worship Guide and lyric videos displayed on a large monitor.

Join Our New YouTube Live Stream! (click here)

No internet? No problem!

If you don’t have internet access, just use our call-in number from your phone: +1 (929) 205-6099. Enter Meeting ID: 882-3154-2428 Password: 1714.

 

 

 

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What’s holding you back? Holding you from living your very best life? Holding you back from what is calling you forward into a hopeful future? This week we will meet a man named Bart, for short, who was held back by many things that constrained him. That is, until Jesus called him. Jesus calls each of us. Jesus calls us by name and gives us the courage and the power to cast aside whatever it is that has been holding us back. Hear the voice of Jesus as you leave what holds you back behind and to run unhindered into a future of hope.

Music Preview

We begin worship with To God Be the Glory, an American gospel song that became popular in England in the late 19th century, then returned to this country in the mid-20th century with the Billy Graham crusades. Its popularity may well be due to its simple focus on the praise of God

Our closing song is Will You Come and Follow Me (The Summons) the title echoing Jesus’ invitation to Bartimaeus in today’s Gospel. The first four stanzas of this Scottish melody are understood to be in the voice of Christ, with the fifth reflecting the individual singer’s response.

Be with us in person or join us on YouTube Live when our community of faith gathers for worship and gains spiritual insight and spiritual resources to be great in spirit, and spiritual intelligence.

“…That you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” (Eph. 3:18).

Due to the spike in cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in Cape May County, masks are again required, even for fully vaccinated worshippers.Worship Your Way! In-Person, or Online. Masks are optional for vaccinated worshippers.

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. Once you and your family are ready for worship at home, share the picture with us by posting to Facebook #ColdSpringChurch or Instagram #coldspringchurchnj. If you’re in the sanctuary, feel free to share photos or text friends about what you are learning! Subscribe to our weekly Connections email newsletter. Sign up here!

Energize your life and discover the amazing love of Jesus! This week is the perfect time to join us in person for worship. Enjoy live music and solo, lyric videos, and a message of hope from God’s word.

We are excited to welcome to worship all who are able and comfortable in-person in our historic Red Brick Church on Sundays at 10:30 AM. Your safety, health, and wellness are our top priority. Following the guidance from the CDC and health officials, we have implemented safety protocols and designed an approximately forty-minute worship experience that will be spiritually energizing and safe for you, your family, and other worshippers.

2021-10-17 Hybrid Worship

By Intersections, Sermons

We are ready for you inside our historic, beautiful Red Brick Church or, join us on YouTube Live!

Get Your Worship Guide Here (click here) Scroll down for worship preview!

Due to the spike in cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in Cape May County, masks are again required, even for fully vaccinated worshippers.

Whatever your religious affiliation, or none at all, we will all hear Jesus say, “Come to me all who are overburdened, and find rest for your soul!” Everyone is welcomed at Cold Spring Church. Yes, everyone!

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. Once you and your family are ready for worship at home, share the picture with us by posting to Facebook #ColdSpringChurch or Instagram #coldspringchurchnj. If you’re in the sanctuary, feel free to share photos or text friends about what you are learning! Subscribe to our weekly Connections email newsletter. Sign up here!

Energize your life and discover the amazing love of Jesus! This week is the perfect time to join us in person for worship. Enjoy live music and solo, lyric videos, and a message of hope from God’s word.

Enjoy sitting with others from greater Cape May as we worship together. We simplified our service and made it even easier to participate, with our Worship Guide and lyric videos displayed on a large monitor.

Get Your Worship Guide Here (click here)

Join Our New YouTube Live Stream! (click here)

No internet? No problem!

If you don’t have internet access, just use our call-in number from your phone: +1 (929) 205-6099. Enter Meeting ID: 882-3154-2428 Password: 1714.

 

 

 

Worship, Music, and Message theme:

Who’s the greatest of them all? The acronym G.O.A.T. is online shorthand when enthusiastically advancing the athlete, performer, or celebrity you think is the Greatest Of All Time in their category. Who doesn’t want to be great Aspiring to being great can be a positive driving force to improve our attributes, skills, and competencies. Entertainment, business, science, education and sports have all developed metrics to measure and evaluate the relative greatness of our own progress, between competing people, or competing ideas and methods. But there’s also a dark side to greatness. Seeking to be great can also be rooted in an unhealthy ego and lead to behaviors of superiority, or even abuse. You no doubt can think of numerous examples past and present of the constructive and destructive aspects of our pursuit of greatness. Do you think our culture is obsessed with greatness? Are you? What do you think is missing or present in a person’s life that makes them greatness obsessed? This week in our message from God’s word, the followers of Jesus aspire to the title, G.O.A.T. Find out how Jesus reframed their aspirations of greatness. (Jesus is the greatest, and wants us to be great in this one area of our lives, too. Find out this week!)

Be with us in person or join us on YouTube Live when our community of faith gathers for worship and gains spiritual insight and spiritual resources to be great in spirit, and spiritual intelligence.

Music Preview- Our video hymn this week The Servant King was Graham Kendrick’s most popular song and is still one of the top 10 songs in the CCL (Church Copyright License).the song illustrates Graham’s willingness to research a theme using concordances, commentaries and other biblical research tools. He found the theme very inspiring:

‘It was a challenge to explore the vision of Christ as the servant who would wash the disciples’ feet but who was also the Creator of the universe.’

We close the service with Make Me a Servant. Composer Kelly Willard says she “was at home, and the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart saying very gently, “You know, you could stand to have a little more of a servant heart.” I went straight to my piano and began playing and singing this prayer.”

“…That you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” (Eph. 3:18).

Worship Your Way! In-Person, or Online. Masks are optional for vaccinated worshippers.

We are excited to welcome to worship all who are able and comfortable in-person in our historic Red Brick Church on Sundays at 10:30 AM. Your safety, health, and wellness are our top priority. Following the guidance from the CDC and health officials, we have implemented safety protocols and designed an approximately forty-minute worship experience that will be spiritually energizing and safe for you, your family, and other worshippers.

2021-10-10 Hybrid Worship

By Intersections, Sermons

We are ready for you inside our historic, beautiful Red Brick Church or, join us on YouTube Live!

Get Your Worship Guide Here (click here) Scroll down for worship preview!

Due to the spike in cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in Cape May County, masks are again required, even for fully vaccinated worshippers.

Whatever your religious affiliation, or none at all, we will all hear Jesus say, “Come to me all who are overburdened, and find rest for your soul!” Everyone is welcomed at Cold Spring Church. Yes, everyone!

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. Once you and your family are ready for worship at home, share the picture with us by posting to Facebook #ColdSpringChurch or Instagram #coldspringchurchnj. If you’re in the sanctuary, feel free to share photos or text friends about what you are learning! Subscribe to our weekly Connections email newsletter. Sign up here!

Energize your life and discover the amazing love of Jesus! This week is the perfect time to join us in person for worship. Enjoy live music and solo, lyric videos, and a message of hope from God’s word.

Enjoy sitting with others from greater Cape May as we worship together. We simplified our service and made it even easier to participate, with our Worship Guide and lyric videos displayed on a large monitor.

Get Your Worship Guide Here (click here)

Join Our New YouTube Live Stream! (click here)

No internet? No problem!

If you don’t have internet access, just use our call-in number from your phone: +1 (929) 205-6099. Enter Meeting ID: 882-3154-2428 Password: 1714.

 

 

 

Worship, Music, and Message theme:

Do you have a large walk-in closet or shed that you can’t fit one more thing into? Or a “two-car” garage that now can only hold one car, barely? Now it’s a one-car garage only if you know just how to slide it in-between the lawnmower, snow blower, and the never ending boxes of stuff. Maybe you needed more space in your home office but the extra desk, drawers, and shelves, well, they’ve reached their capacity, already. Many of us have an accumulation problem, as seen in yet another storage facility opening nearby.

Some items in our life are enjoyable, aspirational, inspirational, essential, connectional, functional, or they are just special and we just have an emotional attachment to them. From personal devices like watches, phones, and other technologies, to cherished mementos, Jesus knows how much we like or need to collect “stuff.” This week, we meet someone who for all the stuff he had, it just wasn’t enough. Enough, that is, to see what he truly needed. Plan to be with us in person or join us on YouTube Live when our community of faith gathers for worship and gains spiritual insight on the difference between the disposable and the eternal treasure that is worth gaining and keeping.

This week we will enjoy a solo by Barbara Cain with Jayne McDonough titled, Lord, What Must We Do?, to the tune of O Worship the King, All Glorious Above. Our first hymn is a contemporary piece titled I Have Decided. Both pieces reinforce our theme of making good decisions and not turning back when Jesus calls us forward. We close worship with two stanzas of Take My Life and Let It Be.

“…That you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” (Eph. 3:18).

Worship Your Way! In-Person, or Online. Masks are optional for vaccinated worshippers.

We are excited to welcome to worship all who are able and comfortable in-person in our historic Red Brick Church on Sundays at 10:30 AM. Your safety, health, and wellness are our top priority. Following the guidance from the CDC and health officials, we have implemented safety protocols and designed an approximately forty-minute worship experience that will be spiritually energizing and safe for you, your family, and other worshippers.

2021-10-03 Hybrid Worship

By Intersections, Sermons

It’s World Communion Sunday and we are ready for you inside our historic, beautiful Red Brick Church or, join us on YouTube Live!

Get Your Worship Guide Here (click here) Scroll down for worship preview!

Due to the spike in cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in Cape May County, masks are again required, even for fully vaccinated worshippers.

Whatever your religious affiliation, or none at all, we will all hear Jesus say, “Come to me all who are overburdened, and find rest for your soul!” Everyone is welcomed at Cold Spring Church. Yes, everyone!

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. Once you and your family are ready for worship at home, share the picture with us by posting to Facebook #ColdSpringChurch or Instagram #coldspringchurchnj. If you’re in the sanctuary, feel free to share photos or text friends about what you are learning! Subscribe to our weekly Connections email newsletter. Sign up here!

Energize your life and discover the amazing love of Jesus! This week is the perfect time to join us in person for worship. Enjoy live music and solo, lyric videos, and a message of hope from God’s word.

Enjoy sitting with others from greater Cape May as we worship together. We simplified our service and made it even easier to participate, with our Worship Guide and lyric videos displayed on a large monitor.

Get Your Worship Guide Here (click here)

Join Our New YouTube Live Stream! (click here)

No internet? No problem!

If you don’t have internet access, just use our call-in number from your phone: +1 (929) 205-6099. Enter Meeting ID: 882-3154-2428 Password: 1714.

 

Gathering At the Lord’s Table 

Our in-person worshippers will be provided pre-packaged communion cups, which on-line worshippers may request by contacting the office. Or, you choose the bread. For the cup, you may use grape juice or wine, or water, remembering that Christ is the Living Water for all.

Worship and Message theme:

On World Communion Sunday, we celebrate the image of God in all of us! Images fill our world. From social media memes and Instagram to TikTok videos, images dominate our senses. Our brain interprets images much faster than hearing words and much, much faster than reading text.

We are created in the image of God. Jesus knew how important image was, too, because image is not merely what is observed on the outside of something, or someone. An image represents (literally, re-presents) the core purpose, values, essence and essential content of what is described. The apostle Paul spoke of Christ as the image-bearer of God when he wrote, “…Look at the Son and see the God who cannot be seen… Look at the Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created” (Col. 1:15-16). “Jesus is the exact image, imprint, of God” (Hebrews 1:3). When Jesus’ followers asked to see God Jesus replied, “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:5).

In Pastor Kevin’s message, “Image IS Everything,” we will explore how Jesus’ response to his political and religious climate resulted in a reframing of what we see, and how we regard others regardless of their age. How we can reflect God’s image in our own life? Whose image do you reveal? How is your core purpose displayed? How do you prove God’s presence in your life? The power of God’s image will inspire you!

Music Preview:

Our music this week will celebrate God’s true image of grace and love. While our Worship Online community can sing freely as they wish, we realize its a challenge to fully enjoy music in-person with our masks on. We appreciate the ways our growing number of in-person worshippers have been experimenting and learning new ways to worship within the safety constraints of the pandemic. However you enjoy our songs, hymns, and spiritual songs, we make music to the Lord together (Ephesians 5:19).

We begin worship with an inspiring song by We Are Messengers titled Image of God reflecting on how seven billion people across the planet share common experiences, and even more importantly, are all equally made in the image of God. Beverly Mate’s solo reminds us that we join Jesus’ mission to people of all ages titled, Do Not Turn Away the Children.

“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Ephesians 2:10).

“…That you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” (Eph. 3:18).

Worship Your Way! In-Person, or Online. Masks are optional for vaccinated worshippers.

We are excited to welcome to worship all who are able and comfortable in-person in our historic Red Brick Church on Sundays at 10:30 AM. Your safety, health, and wellness are our top priority. Following the guidance from the CDC and health officials, we have implemented safety protocols and designed an approximately forty-minute worship experience that will be spiritually energizing and safe for you, your family, and other worshippers.