Ashburn Presbyterian Church

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🌴Maui Fire Donations🔥, 🎒Backpack Blessing, ⛪ All Church Retreat ⛺ We all need expert advice at some point in life. If you have health concerns, you want a qualified doctor to give their assessment. Knowing that all doctors are imperfect, you might get a second, third, or fourth opinion. If their judgment is the same and you don't like it, don't look for the doctor...

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🌴Support Maui Fire Survivors🔥, 🥞Men's Breakfast🍳, Youth Fire Pit Night,🏅 Mexican Train Game Night🏆 Last week, I went on a trip with my son Benjamin to the Midwest. Our first stop was visiting a friend from my time in New York City who opened a wake park in Rockford, IL, West Rock Wake Park. At this wake park you can wakeboard but instead of a boat, cables are pulling you along. I have only been w...

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⚽Loudoun United Soccer, 🎥Family Fellowship Events🍿 It was 1947 and Billy Graham was in the early days of forming his evangelical outreach to spread the Gospel to as many people as possible. In three short years by 1950 he would form the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and the race was on to reach the world for Christ. His conviction to share....

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⚽Loudoun United Soccer Game, 😎Young Adult Bible Study, 🧎Youth Retreat, 🥏Family Cornhole🏆 We are in a sermon series on Proverbs, one of the five wisdom books in the Bible. Taken together, we have a treasure from God’s word to help us grow in wisdom. Knowing how to read them is essential since they seem to contradict one another, like Ecclesiastes and Proverbs.  Proverbs asks us to see...

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🍦College & Young Adult Ministry Kickoff, ⚽Loudoun United Faith Night Soccer Game⚽ We live in an anxious age. There are worries and concerns about the coming election, the war in Ukraine, the global heatwave, artificial intelligence, and race, and gender issues, just to name a few. There are localized fears of health, finances, and personal safety. We are one of the safest and mos...

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🏆Cornhole & Mexican Train FRIDAY! 🎥 Movie Night MONDAY! 🍿 Ladies lunch is back! 🥗 As I write this, I am in Brazil right now, waiting for my flight home. While getting to my gate today, I was reminded of a painful experience three weeks ago. I had a scheduled flight with my son to Miami and then a connecting flight to Brasilia. The travel agent previously had to change my son's ti...

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🥞Men's Breakfast Saturday, 🎥Youth and Whole Family Fellowship Events🥏 Psalm 139:1-3 is a well-known Psalm and will be our Call to Worship this Sunday.  We hope you can join us as we praise God!

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😎CORNHOLE Friday, 🎵HYMN SING Sunday, 🎥MOVIE NIGHT Monday🍿 As Believers in Jesus Christ, we know that we are saved only because of our Heavenly Father’s amazing grace through the atoning work of His Son on the Cross; that the Father and Son are One; and we are now one with them through the indwelling Holy Spirit which we received at the moment of belief. ...

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☀️Summer Youth and 😎Church Fellowship Activities🥏 If you were around last week or in church on Sunday, you got to experience Stellar VBS. Once again, the Word of God came alive for the children and volunteers! I've been doing VBS at APC for 18 years. Every year I say, “This is the best year," until the next year. God has certainly blessed AP...

Thank you to all who helped make Stellar VBS not only possible but a huge, God-glorifying success at APC, with special thanks to Miss Brenda and Miss Tracy for all of their hard work. It was wonderful to have so many VBS families come back to celebrate with us in worship and over a fabulous potluck luncheon today. Keep shining Jesus' light, friends! 👆🌟💖

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🚀VBS Sunday Service 🌎and 🍔All Church Potluck Cookout!!🌭 I read a poem the other day that got me thinking about waiting versus acting.  Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose. Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands and you...

Stellar VBS, Day 2:
"Live in harmony with each other." (Romans 12:16)

Day 1 of Stellar VBS: "Shine Jesus' light!" He is the Light of the world! 🌟

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🚀Stellar VBS Kickoff Monday!🌎 🥯Men's Breakfast Saturday🥞 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near (Philippians 4:5). Unfortunately, a gentle person is often seen as weak in our society. They are a pushover who doesn’t fight for their rights or get what they want because they are timid. In our current polarized society, gentleness does not...

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🚀🌎VBS Decorating Help Needed! 👧Last Kid Stuff👦 This past Sunday, we discussed what it means to be citizens of heaven. Paul says, “our citizenship is in heaven, and from it, we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body by the power that enables him even to subject all things to him...

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🚀VBS Registration Ends June 4th, 👩‍🎓Graduate Recognition Sunday👨‍🎓 As the Christian faith continues to be unpopular in our current cultural setting, we may feel that we need refuge. We desire to be safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble. We mistakenly think safety is best attained by eliminating or staying away from evil forces. In truth it is best atta...

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🌎VBS Supplies Needed🚀, Last Kid Stuff, 🌺No Youth Group Sunday🌸 The apostle Paul calls the church in Philippi (and us) to shine like stars in this twisted generation (Philippians 2:15). This past Sunday, we discussed one of the ways to shine is not to grumble. We are all prone to grumble, complain, and argue about things that distress and disappoint us. The more...

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⛪Hymn Sing🎶, Google Reviews, 🎓Signup Your Graduate🎓 This past Sunday, we saw in Philippians 1:12 that we are to ‘live in the manner worthy of the gospel.’ I mentioned that the original Greek term for a ‘manner worthy’ (politeuesthe) has as its root the word that is translated as ‘citizenship.’ Paul uses the same term later in the letter: ...

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🌺Church Spring Cleanup, 🎓Graduate Recognition, 🌺Mother's Day Tea🫖🫖 This past Sunday, we discussed Paul’s prayer for the church in Philippi: “It is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ” (Philippians 1:9-10). Paul prays...

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🎡County Fair Saturday, 🍩Donut Delivery and Night of Worship Sunday!⛪ This Sunday, we are starting a new sermon series, "To Live is Christ,” from the letter of Paul to the Philippians. Paul is writing a traditional friendship letter to those in Philippi, and while the reason for corresponding is to thank them for their gift to him, he also wants to encourage them. P...

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🍩Last Call for Donuts, 🎨VBS Supplies Needed📚, Kid Stuff🏈 God is Love. He loves us so much that he wants us to grow into maturity; therefore, he gives warnings. Parents love their children and warn them of the dangers of making poor choices. This warning is best when parents model godly behavior, set boundaries for them (this is compounded by social media....

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🍩Donut Sales, 🍳Men's Breakfast, 🎨VBS Needs📦 I finally saw “Jesus Revolution," which chronicles the beginning of the Jesus movement in the 1960s. It was very well done, and I found myself deeply moved. It was most compelling because of the subject matter.  The seed of the charismatic movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s had a large wa...

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⛪Easter Services🌞, 🌌VBS Wish List, 🍩Donuts for Sale🌷 The Resurrection is a promise of hope and renewal in a world that is in desperate need of it. As we approach Sunday, we are reminded of our Lord's perfect life filled with love, mercy, and the proclamation of the kingdom of God. “For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeli...

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🐣Holy Week Schedule⛪, Office Closure,🍩 Donut Sale,📘 Book Fair📙, Easter Egg Hunt🐰 We had another tragedy this week. And this one hit theoretically close to home. A school run by a Presbyterian church in Nashville lost six people from an act of violence. All tragedies like this are painful particularly when it involves children, but this one strikes a painful chord. How do we res...

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👩Kids Stuff👨, Men's Bible Study, 👠Shoe/Sneaker Donation👟

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🍀St Patty Dinner🍀, Shoes Collection👟, 🌌Stellar VBS Registration Open🌠 In our study of Everyone’s a Theologian, we discussed what it means for Jesus to have atoned for our sins this past week. We focus on Christ atoning for our sins during this Lenten season as we approach Resurrection Sunday, but it is helpful to meditate on it every day of the year. It is not only ...

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⏰Spring Ahead, 👟Sneakers Collection, 🍀St Patty's Dinner🍀 This week, we are looking at the subject of sin in our class, "Everyone is a Theologian." Obviously, this is not a popular topic but the cross makes no sense without it. We need the bad news before the good news. No one would ever condemn a doctor for telling you the truth about your condition. You...

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🎵Night of Worship, 🍬Easter Eggs, 👟Sneaker Collection,🌠 Stellar VBS🌎 Ashburn Presbyterian Church's mission is to glorify God in everything we do, to make and equip disciples of Christ, and to be empowered by the Holy Spirit to love and serve others through word and deed. The main task is to make and equip disciples. To put it simply, a disciple is a follower of Jesus...

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🎲Game Night, 👦Kid Stuff👧, 🎵Hymn Sing🎶 You have probably heard by now about the Asbury revival that began on February 8th in Wilmoth, Kentucky, on the campus of Asbury University. A regularly scheduled chapel service on Wednesday morning led to an around-the-clock worship service that has just recently stopped (it is being moved off camp...

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☕Men's Breakfast, 📕Everyone's A Theologian Kickoff, 🎯Family Game Night🎲 Last week I read an insightful article leading up to the Super Bowl about Joe Montana by Wright Thompson. Montana was the greatest quarterback of his day – the GOAT before Tom Brady came along. The article is a study on legacy, significance, and bitterness. After last Sunday, I wonder what the ret...

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📕Everyone's A Theologian, 🍴Chili, Hot Dog Sale, 💕Love Luncheon💝 The Friday morning men’s group is studying the life of King David. He was a man after God's own heart yet had some serious flaws, including adultery and murder. He did repent for these sins. God has provided Psalm 51 as a model of repentance and yet some might wonder why has David been so commende...

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📚Churchwide Bible Study, 🍔Youth Fundraiser, 💗Love Luncheon💕 "Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." It is a greeting at the beginning of Apostle Paul's letters. It is such a typical greeting from Paul that you breeze over it. To the church in Corinth Paul recommends they greet one another with a Holy Kiss which, as Presbyteria...

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🌺New CHURCH BIBLE STUDY, 🍜Annual Potluck, Youth Chili/Hot Dog Sale🌿 This Sunday, we have our annual meeting where we look at the past year and anticipate where God is leading us in the future. We have had a good year as we grow in becoming the people God calls us to be. This is not easy because the challenge to change is difficult when we prefer to stay the same. I....

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☕Men's Breakfast,🍕 KID STUFF, 💝Ladies Love Luncheon, 🎲FAMILY GAME NIGHT🃏 The movie Risen is the story of Clavius, a Roman guard who investigates the supposed Resurrection of Jesus. It stars Joseph Fiennes in the lead role. I heard several years ago Eric Metaxas interviewed Joseph Fiennes who was promoting the movie. Fiennes stated he appreciated religion and Christianity...

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🎵Hymn Sing Sunday🎶, Fellowship Events, 💼Backpack Buddies😄 This past Sunday, we examined the story of Jesus and the Samaritan Woman. We discussed Jesus offering us the spring of living water, and this coming Sunday, we are focusing on the nature of worship in the same passage. The Samaritan woman commented to Jesus that her people worshiped on Mt Gerizim, n...

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🎶Hymn Sing🎵, Kids Stuff🏃, Fellowship Events🎉 I sat down to enjoy a football game on Monday Night while I cleaned up emails and did a little work. Early on in the game I noticed someone was down on the field at the end of one play. I did not initially see what happened since everyone got up after the play but the replay showed Damar Hamlin had....

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🍷Communion Schedule Change⌚, Good Shepherd Update, New Women's Bible Study📚 As we approach 2023, it is time again for New Year’s resolutions, or as I like to call them, New Year’s commitments. Instead of making a long list, I am focusing on what is essential for spiritual growth and contentment this year. What, in the New Year, do we need to commit to, personally and as...

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🎁🎇Christmas Eve Service Times🎄⏰, Office Schedule Changes🌲 Waiting takes work. Not the waiting in-line kind of waiting but waiting for the conflict to resolve, healing to occur, or joy to be renewed. Advent means waiting; this is a season to remember what we are to wait for more than anything else. We are waiting for the coming of the Messiah to make all th...

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🍩Men's Breakfast🍳🎄Christmas Eve Services🎁Youth Group Movie Night🎥Schedule Changes⏰ The Advent season is busy and festive. It is the most wonderful time of the year and can also be the busiest time of year – whether it is traveling with family or the local routine of Christmas events for the family. There are also all the typical statements made during this season. Make sure to r...