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Sermons
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Todays sermon is titled "Oh, This is Just Plain Backwards!". We learned about God's upside down kingdom, where the first are last. Scripture lessons include Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 and Luke 14:1, 7-14.
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Office
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LCMC Reaches Milestone
CANTON, MI - As Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC) prepares to celebrate its tenth anniversary as an association, it is with joy that they also mark a new milestone and welcome their 500th congregation into membership!
On August 22, 2010, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Morris, Minnesota, a new mission start congregation, voted to join LCMC. The acceptance of their application for membership makes this congregation number 500 to join LCMC!
Please click on the "LCMC" link in the upper left margin of this page to learn more about LCMC. |
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Office
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Pastor Robin and her husband Tim will be on retreat in Trego, WI at the Heartwood Conference and Retreat Center from September 2 - 10.
The retreat is designed for growth in their marriage, as well as personal and professional growth and renewal. The cost of this retreat is absorbed by the participants but subsidized and sponsored by "The Fellowship" an organization that leads retreats for pastors and their spouses. Please keep Tim and PR in your prayers as they look to grow together as husband and wife as well as finding strength for ministry here at Sychar! |
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Sermons
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Todays sermon is titled "A Tale of Two Mountains". Learning about the significance of Mount Sinai and Mount Zion. Scripture lessons include Hebrews 12:18-29, and Luke 13:10-17.
Please right click on the following link, and select 'Save-as' to download the sermon directly to your computer.
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Family Ministry
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[Edited to fix wrong link on Sunday the 22nd -- edits in italic]
Sychar Fantasy Football is back! All you need to participate is a little good-natured competition and the ability to login to Yahoo. The rosters are slimmed down a bit this year which should make it even easier for the less competative to take part. We have a Quarterback, 2 Wide Receivers, 2 Running Backs, 1 Tight End/Running Back/Wide Receiver option position, Kicker, and a Defense/Special Teams position. Only 8 positions to keep track of means you won't necessarily need to watch every single football game on TV.
The League can be joined by using the following link: http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/register/joinprivateleague_league_select?.scrumb=
League ID# is 448543
The password to get in is the first book of the bible, with no capitalization.
Very easy, anybody can do it. The Sychar League can be joined found after signing up by clicking on the following link: http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/sychar
Teams need to be in SOON. The draft will take place automatically on or around the 26th 29th of August. We need to get an even number of teams, and the more participants the better. You don' t need to actually attend Sychar, but you should know somebody that does! Clean 'smack talk' will be welcomed from all. |
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Sermons
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Todays sermon is titled "The Winner". This is the last of a 3 week series in the book of Revelation. Scripture lessons include Revelation 21:1-4, and Matthew 25:31-33. The sermon finished up with interesting real history of "The Battlehymn of the Republic" and Alfred Nobel.
Please right click on the following link, and select 'Save-as' to download the sermon directly to your computer.
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General
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This posting is to simply document the settings used for the sermon audio. This may be handy for other tech heads or sound technicians that are tasked with creating sermon audio podcasts for their church. The church sermon is generally recorded with the iKey recording device directly to a flash memory device in a full quality .wav format. We then process it with the Audacity program to remove background noise. At that time we encode that .wav file as an .mp3 file. We use the LAME mp3 encoder. The conversion is done with a command line:
lame --alt-preset 24 -mm inputfile.wav outputfile.mp3
Frequently the --alt-preset 24 is pushed down to 20 or 16 to attempt to keep the filesize down below 5Megs. Even a target bitrate of 12 is possible, but is very thin and doesn't sound very nice. Special occasions and events will frequently be encoded at a significantly higher bitrate of 128 or 192, and that version is stored only on the church server for internal use. If you require a higher quality recording such as this, see the office to get it on a flash drive or CD.
Blessings to you all, and please share these sermons with folks that can't make it to church or need to hear the Word of God faithfully preached. |
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Sermons
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Todays sermon is titled "Amazing Grace". This is the second of a 3 week series in the book of Revelation. Scripture lessons include Revelation 5:1-5, and Matthew 24:29-31.
Please right click on the following link, and select 'Save-as' to download the sermon directly to your computer.
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Sermons
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Todays sermon is titled "Who READS This Stuff??". This is the first of a 3 week series in the book of Revelation. Scripture lessons include Revelation 1:1-8, and Matthew 24:36-42.
Please right click on the following link, and select 'Save-as' to download the sermon directly to your computer.
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Sermons
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Happy 4th of July to you all. Todays sermon is titled "The Cost of Freedom is Blood". Scripture lessons include 1 Kings 17:17-24, Romans 6:3-11, and Mark 8:27-9:1.
Please right click on the following link, and select 'Save-as' to download the sermon directly to your computer.
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Sermons
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Todays lesson was about God's instruction, and coaching for our lives. Scripture texts included 1st Timothy 3:1-7, 2nd Timothy 2:1-26, and Matthew 10:5-21.
Please right click on the following link, and select 'Save-as' to download the sermon directly to your computer.
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