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August 2022

2022-09-04 Hybrid Worship

By Intersections, Newsletters, Sermons

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. Our welcoming, energizing, community worship premiers at 10:30 AM every Sunday in the Red Brick Church. We are fully accessible and lot parking is available. Stay for our Hospitality Table following worship. Get news and event information in your inbox every week by subscribing to our weekly Connections email newsletter. Sign up here!

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A limited number of Worship Guides are available in the Narthex. Download your Worship Guide that includes a message and music preview, Scripture readings, prayers, community news, and much more! Click the link above.

Worship with us on YouTube (click here)

You can worship with us anytime on our YouTube Live channel. Enjoy the previous week’s messages and music, too, or share worship with a friend!


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Where do you see faith at work? This Labor Day weekend we will celebrate God’s work in our lives that we most clearly realize when we put our faith in Jesus Christ to work.

“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).

We work on lots of projects, big and small. Think about your last project. How did it turn out? Sometimes, the project may not have turned out the way we expected! Ordinary setbacks, unanticipated obstacles, or our inactions or distractions may leave the task incomplete. We want to stay with it. Sometimes we can’t or won’t. What do we do? How can we build things that matter?

In this week’s message from Luke 14:25-33 titled, Before You Build, we hear Jesus set some pretty high expectations for those who follow him. There is no discount discipleship. No coupons to reduce our costs. When Jesus invited others to follow, it meant following in his footsteps. What did Jesus mean when he said to love him more than our family? (Yes, he said that. But it doesn’t mean what you may at first think.) Jesus says our possessions (time, energy, attention, health, finances) must never get in our way. What prompted Jesus to use the metaphor of a builder who couldn’t finish the project or a king estimating his chances of winning a battle? 

What does it cost us to follow Jesus? The short answer is everything! But the good news is that Jesus has paid the cost, and we can be ready to complete God’s tasks. Our goals may not be as audacious as Nehemiah’s or as fantastic as the Apostle Paul’s, but what we do matters because we matter. Let’s get it done because when Jesus starts something, you can be sure he will finish it! That includes us, too. What God began in your spiritual core, your heart, God will keep at it until we reach our full potential in Christ. Find out how you can build your life by taking these three steps of faith at Cold Spring Church this week:

  1. Secure the foundation
  2. Build the future 
  3. Stick to the plan

“For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6).

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This week we will enjoy a hymn solo for Labor Day by Barbara Cain with Jayne McDonough titled, O God Our Creator, You Work Every Day. Our first hymn is an upbeat piece by 7eventh Time Down titled I Have Decided. Our worship will reinforce our theme of making good decisions and not turning back when Jesus calls us forward. We close worship with Lord of All Hopefulness that celebrates God’s work in our lives throughout each day.

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

Whatever your religious affiliation, or none at all, we all hear Jesus say, “Come to me all who are overburdened, and find rest for your soul!” Everyone is welcome 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.

Worship anytime on YouTube Live!
(click here)

Physical distancing and masks are recommended bu are not required!

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. 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 you to worship in our historic Red Brick Church that premiers on Sundays at 10:30 AM.

2022-08-28 Hybrid Worship

By Intersections, Newsletters, Sermons

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. Our welcoming, energizing, community worship premiers at 10:30 AM every Sunday in the Red Brick Church. We are fully accessible and lot parking is available. Stay for our Hospitality Table following worship. Get news and event information in your inbox every week by subscribing to our weekly Connections email newsletter. Sign up here!

Get Your Worship Guide (Click here)

A limited number of Worship Guides are available in the Narthex. Download your Worship Guide that includes a message and music preview, Scripture readings, prayers, community news, and much more! Click the link above.

Worship with us on YouTube (click here)

You can worship with us anytime on our YouTube Live channel. Enjoy the previous week’s messages and music, too, or share worship with a friend!


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Like a giant pinecone with a crown, the pineapple symbolizes welcoming  hospitality. The Tupinamba people who settled in the Amazon Rainforest 3000 years ago regarded the pineapple as an object of worship. While pineapples were an integral part of daily life for the Tupi people, it is now grown and enjoyed worldwide as a superfood and symbol of hospitality.

There’s ordinary hospitality, and then there’s a new model of hospitality we read about in this week’s Gospel reading in Luke 14. Jesus insisted that offering genuine hospitality was not a spiritual gift given to a select few. Being hospitable was not optional but a practice required of all. And with practice, hospitality will increase and stack up to have a cumulative healing effect. This week we can learn how to offer genuine hospitality that transfigures those who extend and receive it. Hospitality can bring healing to the alienated, hurt, alone, and those who feel like an outcast or somehow distant from God’s kingdom or presence. Let’s be Pineapple People at Cold Spring Church! Let’s embrace opportunities to welcome the stranger, reach out to neighbors, and in the end, embrace God’s healing and love for us all!

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Rev. Larry Moyer will be singing Be It Unto Me, a powerful song by The prolific Gospel singer Don Moen. He wrote about the song, “but Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but with God everything is possible.” – Matthew 19:26. 

The hymn following the message will begin with the verse Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing with added lyrics by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, God We Sense Your Peace and Power. This new hymn  is a retelling of Jesus’ teaching to take the humble seats at the table and to invite strangers who are in need to our own tables; it is a prayer that we will catch the vision of God’s reign that turns the world upside down.

We close our worship singing Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life  reminding us that Jesus walks in every neighborhood and community. Because dense populations always result in concentrated hardships, this hymn’s timeless evocation of urban need connects to our own day as well as to Jesus’ lament over Jerusalem (Matthew 23:37/Luke 13:34). The tune, Germany, was the first used with this text and is now customary.

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

Whatever your religious affiliation, or none at all, we all hear Jesus say, “Come to me all who are overburdened, and find rest for your soul!” Everyone is welcome 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.

Worship anytime on YouTube Live!
(click here)

Physical distancing and masks are recommended bu are not required!

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. 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 you to worship in our historic Red Brick Church that premiers on Sundays at 10:30 AM.

2022-08-21 Hybrid Worship

By Intersections, Newsletters, Sermons

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. Our welcoming, energizing, community worship premiers at 10:30 AM every Sunday in the Red Brick Church. We are fully accessible and lot parking is available. Stay for our Hospitality Table following worship. Get news and event information in your inbox every week by subscribing to our weekly Connections email newsletter. Sign up here!

Get Your Worship Guide (Click here)

Please download your Worship Guide that includes a message and music preview, Scripture readings, prayers, community news, and much more! Click the link above.

Worship with us on YouTube (click here)

You can worship with us anytime on our YouTube Live channel. Enjoy the previous week’s messages and music, too, or share worship with a friend!


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We welcome Norris Clark to the pulpit this week while Pastor Kevin and Melissa are on vacation. In a message entitled, Good News vs: Fake News, we will sharpen our discernment skills and be encouraged in sharing the Good News in Jesus Christ.

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We welcome pianist and organist Mary Snyder while Jayne and Dennis are away. Our music lyric video is Good Good Father, a beautiful worship song with a simple chorus that simply praises God as being good and reminds us all that we are loved! The song opens by saying, “I’ve heard a thousand stories of what they think you’re like” but continues with the truth that often comes to us when we take time to be still and listen to God in Christ. We will close singing Now Sing the Gospel Story to the tune of the hymn The Day of Resurrection.

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

Whatever your religious affiliation, or none at all, we 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.

Worship anytime on YouTube Live!
(click here)

Physical distancing and masks are recommended bu are not required!

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. 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 you to worship in our historic Red Brick Church that premiers on Sundays at 10:30 AM.

2022-08-14 Hybrid Worship

By Intersections, Newsletters, Sermons

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. Our welcoming, energizing, community worship premiers at 10:30 AM every Sunday in the Red Brick Church. We are fully accessible and lot parking is available. Stay for our Hospitality Table following worship. Get news and event information in your inbox every week by subscribing to our weekly Connections email newsletter. Sign up here!

Get Your Worship Guide (Click here)

Please download your Worship Guide that includes a message and music preview, Scripture readings, prayers, community news, and much more! Click the link above.

Worship with us on YouTube (click here)

You can worship with us anytime on our YouTube Live channel. Enjoy the previous week’s messages and music, too, or share worship with a friend!


Read the Message and Music preview here!

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Everyone has faith in something. We can’t begin our day without it. Faith empowers us to dare, imagine, and hope in what can be and what we can become in Christ. Where do you need to see victory in your life today? Let’s focus less on measuring how much or how little faith we have and instead decide in what and in whom to place our faith. God is faithful and worthy to be the object of our faith. In Hebrews 11, we will consider a list of ordinary people commended for faith not fully realized. Jesus is the finisher of faith. We will re-visit the story of David and Goliath and discover that victory for Israel was not the moment Goliath tumbled to the ground. Instead, David’s faith put victory in motion when he bent down to choose five smooth stones from the river. Find out how well-placed faith can bring victory in your life, too. “Our faith is the victory that overcomes the world” (Hebrews 11:4, ISV).

(Tip: Remember that friends don’t let friends miss out on spiritual energy that can change their lives! This week is a great time to invite others to join you!)

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Gloria Echols is a gospel singer from Pennsylvania who will sing two duets with her former co-worker, the Rev. Larry Moyer. Gloria led a non-profit housing assistance organization serving low-income and unsheltered individuals. She is a featured soloist at her church in Landsdale. Gloria and Larry will sing Great is Thy Faithfulness and Let There Be Peace On Earth.

We Walk By Faith, written by Henry Alford (1810-1871). Alford’s most famous hymn is probably Come, Ye Thankful People Come. Our sending music is the anthem Hymn of Promise by Natalie Sleeth. It was composed in early 1985 and dedicated to a friend diagnosed with cancer and died weeks after its premiere. Soon after the anthem was published, it became known by an alternate title, In the Bulb There Is a Flower, encouraging us to hope in Christ.

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

Whatever your religious affiliation, or none at all, we 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.

Worship anytime on YouTube Live!
(click here)

Physical distancing and masks are recommended bu are not required!

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. 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 you to worship in our historic Red Brick Church that premiers on Sundays at 10:30 AM.

2022-08-07 Hybrid Worship

By Intersections, Newsletters, Sermons

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. Our welcoming, energizing, community worship premiers at 10:30 AM every Sunday in the Red Brick Church. We are fully accessible and lot parking is available. Stay for our Hospitality Table following worship. Get news and event information in your inbox every week by subscribing to our weekly Connections email newsletter. Sign up here!

Get Your Worship Guide (Click here)

Please download your Worship Guide that includes a message and music preview, Scripture readings, prayers, community news, and much more! Click the link above.

Worship with us on YouTube (click here)

You can worship with us anytime on our YouTube Live channel. Enjoy the previous week’s messages and music, too, or share worship with a friend!


Read this week’s Message and Music preview here!

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Do you have a fear of missing out? Occasionally, or often, we may feel like others are having all the fun, and we can’t bear to be left out. This feeling is so prevalent that the fear of missing out has earned its internet slang, FOMO. With the rise of TikTok and other social media platforms, we can’t resist posting videos and photos of events, parties, and gatherings, leaving others with that dreaded FOMO. People who suffer from the “fear of missing out” may constantly check their devices for social media updates to see what their friends are doing. Suffering from severe FOMO can sometimes lead to impulsively canceling plans or obsessing over what others are doing rather than enjoying their own life.

In this week’s message from Luke 12, Jesus says, “Don’t be afraid of missing out. You’re my dearest friends! The Father wants to give you the very kingdom itself.” Gain resources this Sunday to turn FOMO into fearless kingdom living. 

(Tip: Remember that friends don’t let friends miss out on spiritual energy that can change their lives! This week is a great time to invite others to join you!)

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A beautiful hymn medley of Be Thou My Vision with Amazing Grace will be shared by the Rev. Larry Moyer.

Pat Barrett, one of the composers of our video lyric hymn, Build My Life, says “Build My Life is one of those songs that has carried me through so many years of change and uncertainty. Life rarely behaves with our plans and it’s usually in the uncertainty and the not knowing and the trials that reveal what we’ve been standing on and what we put our trust in. Jesus talks about a man who dug a hole and built his house on a rock. When the storm came, the house withstood the storm. This really is a reminder for us that we can build our life on anything, we have the freedom to build our life on whatever we want. And the invitation of Jesus is to build our lives on things that last.”

The closing hymn, How Firm a Foundation was sung by American troops engaged in the Spanish-American war on Christmas morning in 1898. With all of its notoriety, the author is somewhat of a mystery. The hymn is attributed to “K” in the original publication.

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

Whatever your religious affiliation, or none at all, we 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.

Worship anytime on YouTube Live!
(click here)

Physical distancing and masks are recommended bu are not required!

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. 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 you to worship in our historic Red Brick Church that premiers on Sundays at 10:30 AM.