Know the Lord

Pastor Randy Solomon preached on Matthew 7:21-23. The service opens with a spoken word poem by Tida Wright, who also led worship with Damaris Rivera. Pastor Joyce Swingle and Eva P. led a celebration of our children and children's workers. John and Adrienne C. announced that the Operation Christmas Child boxes are ready to be filled! Scroll down for more information.

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We're gathering gifts for children around the world through Operation Christmas Child again this year. Boxes will be available at church until we collect them on November 17.

Pastor Joyce Swingle told about how she felt led to share with the check-out clerk why she was making her purchases, and the clerk told how her daughter received an Operation Christmas Child box after their family was effected by Superstorm Sandy. The woman said she didn't realize it was individuals that packed the boxes.

Bless someone where there is a need somewhere in the world close to home or on the other side of the world.

Click here for more information and to register your box online so you can see where in the world a child receives your box.

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Living as a Foolish or a Wise One?

Pastor Joyce Swingle preaches on Matthew 7:24-29. Opening prayer by Bill H. and communion by Pastor Linda Warren.



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Recognize False Prophets

Pastor Joyce Swingle preached on Matthew 7:15-20. Opening prayer by Bill H.



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Narrow or Wide Way

Pastor Linda Warren preached on Matthew 7:13-14. Madelyn Badillo opened and shared her testimony of being called to Brazil. Musical accompaniment by Piero Gorriti. Rich Swingle performed excerpts from Robert Frost's "Mountain Interval".



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Rich Swingle will be performing an excerpt from Beyond the Chariots at Broadway Blessing. Two Tony Award nominees will also be presenting. That will be Monday at 7pm at The Church of the Transfiguration, 1 E. 29th St, Manhattan. 

Then on Saturday from noon to 5pm I'll be performing in Foley Square, 111 Worth St, in Manhattan. There will be face painting for children and free cotton candy as long as it lasts. Pray for many to hear the World of God through the speakers and performers.


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Living the Life: Choices series review

Rich Swingle led a special service, which included a review of our Living the Life: Choices sermon series. What you'll hear was preceded by small groups reviewing and reporting on their favorite passages from "The Sermon on the Mount", the text we've been covering in the series so far: Matthew 5:3-7:12.



Here's the full quote by Randall Flinn, artistic director of Ad Deum Dance Company:

I learned today that in order to live a transformational life that I first must learn to live a sacramental life. So what is sacramental living? It is living in the remembrance and to the honor of a greater Sacrifice, broken, shed and given for me. It is for me to receive from that Living Communion and also to give from its same mystery. This majestic Grace which incarnates itself, even in a vessel of flesh, bids me to sup, to be filled, and to pour out. What sweet communion indeed! (On his Facebook Timeline)

And here's the study that shows Christianity in China will double in 6.6 years: The Top 20 Countries Where Christianity is Growing the Fastest.

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The Golden Rule: Give/Forgive/Receive

Pastor Randy Solomon preached on Matthew 7:12. The sermon was not recorded, but Pastor Randy has shared his notes: Click here to view or download.

Filming Return to the Hiding Place.

In the sermon, Pastor Randy mentions the book The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom. You can also see the films The Hiding Place, in which Corrie is played by MasterWorks Festival MasterClass instructor Jeannette Clift George and Return to the Hiding Place, an upcoming film Rich and Pastor Joyce Swingle saw at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival. The new film focuses on the work Corrie and her teenage friends were doing before they were thrown into the death camp. The film won "Best Feature Film" and the "Audience Choice Award" at the festival. The film is being shown at other festivals, and producers are in talks with distributors.

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Eye on the Kingdom or Double Vision

Pastor Linda Warren preaches on Matthew 6:19-24. Bill H. opens, and Pastor Linda prays over Pastor Joyce and Rich Swingle.



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Treasure in Heaven or Treasure on Earth

Pastor Jim Warren preached on Matthew 6:19-24. Rich Swingle brought the MasterWorks theatre department to the service after they closed Twelve Angry Jurors in an Off-Broadway theatre: MasterWorksFestival.org/NYC. They all sang in the service, led by Robyn Haley. Josh Knox performed excerpts from Freud's Last Session with Rich. The piece shows an imaginary conversation between CS Lewis and Sigmund Freud. After their performance (not included in the recording due to copyright restrictions) Rich talks about how he and Josh performed it the night before for one of Rich's grad school professors who had CS Lewis as his advisor at Oxford. He met with Lewis for an hour every week.



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Praying to be Heard or Praying to be Seen

Pastor Randy Solomon preached on Matthew 6:5-6.



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Loving or Hating Your Enemies

Pastor Joyce Swingle continues the Choices Series on the Sermon on the Mount, illuminating Matthew 5:43-48. Pastor Randy Solomon opens with prayer. Pastor Linda Warren prays over Rich and Pastor Joyce Swingle as they prepare to serve at the MasterWorks Festival as director of the theatre program and pastoral care/counseling respectively. Musical interludes by Samhill Road. 

For information on the MasterWorks Festival Theatre performances visit MasterWorksFestival.org/NYC. The event on July 10 will include comedy improv by the MasterWorks MasterWits, Jeannie Ortega, singing and telling her testimony about performing with Rihanna before finding the Lord, and Broadway performer Stephen Trafton sharing his one-man play on the book of Philippians.

When Joyce and I (Rich) were in Hong Kong we met James Hudson Taylor III, the great-grandson of Hudson Taylor, who made great inroads into sharing the Good News in China. Jamie, as everyone called him, told us about a ceremony the Chinese held at the 60th Anniversary of the liberation of the internment camp in Weihsien, where he and Eric Liddell were imprisoned during World War II. Jamie told us how "Uncle Eric" challenged the students to consider Matthew 5:43-48, the passage in today's sermon: If Jesus says we should love our enemies, shouldn't we love the Japanese? Most of the students were shocked that he would suggest that they love their captors, but a young man named Stephen Metcalf began to pray for the Japanese. In Olympic Hero in China, a documentary I helped create about Eric Liddell, Stephen says about his prayers, "I found that it didn't change the Japanese, but it did change me." He went on to be a missionary to Japan for 40 years. He was asked to speak at the 60th Anniversary ceremony, but his speech had to be cleared by Chinese officials. You can read that speech here.

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Retaliation or Love

Pastor Joyce Swingle preached on Matthew 5:43-48. Though not recorded, she was followed by John Forbes, a talented performing artist who has worked on Broadway, produced and performed Off-Broadway and around the world. He invites you to connect with him through Facebook. Also not recorded, Rich Swingle performed his one-man one-act play "The Fall", based on part of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.



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Join us this coming Saturday for Indescribable, the award winning film about the love of God: www.WestchesterChapel.org/Indescribable.

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Divided or Faithful

Pastor Joyce Swingle preaches on Matthew 5:31-32, continuing our Choices Series from The Sermon on the Mount.  Comments by Bill and Liz H. Testimony about The Revelation by Vincent N. Pastoral prayer and announcements by Pastor Linda Warren.



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The Mothers Day song that we sang today, "The Sweetest Gift", is included in the lineup below.


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Join us for Indescribable, June 1, 7 pm: www.WestchesterChapel.org/Indescribable.

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Living in Sin or Living The Life

Pastor Joyce Swingle preached on Matthew 5:27-30.  Opening and commentary on the Ten Commandments by Bill H. Communion by Pastor Randy Solomon. Prayer and announcements by Pastor Randy and Pastor Linda Warren.



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Living in Anger or Living Forgiveness?

Pastor Randy Solomon preaches on Matthew 5:21-26. Opening prayer and announcements from Pastor Linda Warren and Pastor Joyce Swingle. Background instruments by Samhill Road.



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Living Righteously or Lawlessly?

Pastor Linda Warren continues the Choices series, preaching on Matthew 5:17-20. Opening and closing by Pastor Randy Solomon. Guitar by Samhill Road.



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Salt and Light; Useful or Useless?

Pastor Jim Warren continues our Choices Series, preaching on Matthew 5:13-14. Opening comments and prayer by Madelyn Badillo who led worship with Piero Gorriti, who plays guitar under some comments and prayers. Announcement and pastoral prayer by Joyce Swingle.



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Devoted to Each Other or to Self

Pastor Joyce Swingle preaches on Acts 2:42-47 and Romans 12:1-2, starting with the question: "Are you a dog person or a cat person?" Chris Choi opens with prayer. Pastor Linda Warren tells the story of St. Patrick and prays over the sermon.



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Persecuted or Following the Crowd?

Pastor Jim Warren preaches on the final beatitude in this series, Matthew 5:10-12. Opening and closing comments by Pastor Joyce Swingle. Music by Samhill Road, including their song "I Cry Out to You", included with their blessing here in it's entirety.



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Samhill Road, sang "Grace Like Rain" by Todd Agnew. Eugene Steficek preceded it with the story behind "Amazing Grace", which is the basis of the Agnew song. You can find Agnew's recording of "Grace Like Rain" below in our worship lineup.




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Peacemakers or Turning People from God?

Rich Swingle preaches on Mattthew 5:9, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God." Closing prayer by Pastor Joyce Swingle. Announcements by Pastor Randy Solomon.



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Here are some of the articles Rich mentioned:
Shooting in the Dark, New York Times
The Impact of Media Violence on Children and Adolescents, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Teaching Kids to Kill, Christianity Today
Captivated: Finding Freedom in a Media Captive Culture, Philip Telfer
The Gospel Sandals of Peace, Rich Swingle

Here are the ads Rich played during the service:



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