Worship August 31, 2025 – With Guest Preacher Rev. Randy Campbell

Bio – Randy Campbell

Randy grew up in a rural area just north of Butler, Pennsylvania.  He attended Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania and spent his junior year at New College, Edinburgh, Scotland.
 
He attended McCormick Seminary, Chicago and served congregations in Ohio, Minnesota and Arizona, taught English at a Mission School in Cameroon, Africa and was U.S. Coordinator of Companeros en Mision Presbyterian Border Ministry in Nogales, Arizona and Mexico.
 
He served as pastor of this church from 2007 to 2015, when he (almost) retired.

Bulletin of August 31, 2025 — MEDITATION: ““The fire of God, his essential being, his love, is a fire unlike its earthly symbol in this, that it is only at a distance it burns – that the farther from him, it burns the worse…and when we turn and…approach him, the burning begins to change to comfort.” – From Creation in Christ by George MacDonald

Scripture: Isaiah 40:27-41; Luke 12:49-56

Isaiah 40:27-41

Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Luke 12:49-56

I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.
And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.
Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?