Pleasant Grove Community Church
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TO BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY
One song, one message, can unite every tribe, tongue and nation around the world. Watch this video and be moved.
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A DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT
by Don Anderson
Renewing Your Mind: Part 6
It was gorgeous this morning and I went for a long bike ride. What a great way to multitask: getting exercise while meditating on scripture. Today my meditation was on Psalm 1, a truly golden nugget of scripture. Imagine you are high in the Sierras, panning for gold in the icy waters of the American River. You dig your pan into the soft soil just below the waterline, and as you bring it up and begin to swish it around, you see a stunning, beautiful gold nugget that could make you rich beyond your wildest dreams gleaming in your pan? That is what Psalm 1 is in scripture, a nugget that makes us rich beyond our wildest dreams. When we meditate on a passage such as this and then obey what it says, God begins to do a work in us that makes us more and more like His Son. And that makes us rich beyond our wildest dreams.
This is the value of scripture meditation. Interestingly, the word meditation means, “turning or revolving of a subject in the mind.” When we take a passage and turn it over and over in our minds, it begins to become a part of us. God’s Word is, in actuality, the Lord Jesus speaking to us when we read scripture. When we meditate on it, it is the Lord Jesus speaking to us in our minds. Our minds are now His mind. We are thinking like Him! This is what Philippians 2:5 says, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” And this is what renewing our minds is about, becoming more like our Savior as we grow to think like Him!
Notice the incredible promise from Psalm 1:3 for those who meditate on scripture: “He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.”
While I was riding today out west of Fiddyment along the old Philip Road, I saw a long line of trees in the distance to the north. I knew that it was the trees that line Pleasant Grove Creek. They were tall, green, and healthy-looking, all because they are planted by a flowing source of water. We can be like those trees; planted in the rivers of the living water of scripture!
When we are planted in the river of “living” water, the rich flow of God’s truth, we bring forth the fruit of the Spirit, we have the strength to overcome whatever the world throws our way and we grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! And that makes us rich beyond our wildest dream!
I encourage all of you to take up the discipline of scripture meditation daily. Just take one of your favorite verses and turn it over and over in your mind for a while. Then do it again and again and you will be richly blessed and the Lord Jesus will be very pleased!
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RSVP for This Sunday
July 12
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Each service will be limited to 100 people per CA guidelines.
RSVP required to manage attendance.
You do not need to print and bring the ticket.
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Those who do not have internet access
can call the church office to RSVP.
Please contact those who do not get this email to let them know.
For Everyone's Health and Safety
Please do NOT arrive sooner than 15 minutes before service.
Face masks are required.
Keep 6' apart. No physical contact (sorry).
Leave 3 empty chairs between you and the next person (unless
you live in the same household).
PLEASE STAY HOME IF...
You feel the least bit sick or have a fever.
You don't feel it is safe for you to be out and around others.
We love you and don't want to take any risks with your health.
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Happy Hearts
Happy hearts, happy hearts
Jesus lives with me
In my life, in my world
Always near is He.
Loving is my Father
Noble, kind and right
Pure, admirable and true
Morning, noon and night.
Following His leading
Think of these each day
He’s with you all the way.
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Needlepoint by Norma Whiting
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WE NEED YOUR SHARING!
Please share with us your:
- Artwork (painting, drawing, photography, craft work)
- Favorite Recipe (and if there is a story behind it, share that as well)
- Favorite Quote (and who it's from)
- Favorite Bible Verse
- Garden (if you do your own gardening)
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WE NEED YOU for our SUNDAY CLEANING TEAM
Without this team we cannot have church services!
If you've been looking for something to do to help at PGCC, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
With the need to clean and sanitize restrooms and frequently touched surfaces before and after each service, we are recruiting volunteers for the Sunday Cleaning Team. It only takes 10-15 minutes and we will provide you with gloves, spray and wipes.
If you are interested, please call the office at 916-771-4447, Mo-Th 9-4, or email Lois at
lecoadypgcc@gmail.com
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OUR DAILY BREAD for July has finally arrived.
You can pick one (or a couple) up right outside of the east door (by the fountain) Mon-Thu between 9:00-4:00.
If you'd like to "save a tree", you
can go to
www.ODB.org
to read each day's devotion instead. Give it a try, you might like it.
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If you have a need
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don’t keep it a secret! If you need prayer, if there is an emergency, if you need help, if you need groceries, if you are going crazy and just need to chat, call or email us.
Call us
at 916-771-4447
(Please leave a message if no one answers.)
Write us
at 1730 Pleasant Grove Blvd, Roseville, CA 95747
Blessings, PGCC staff
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If you know of someone not receiving this email
, they can request to receive it by contacting the church office. By federal law,
they must request it themselves
, you cannot request it for them. We DO NOT SHARE your email address with people outside the church.
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Pleasant Grove Community Church
1730 Pleasant Grove Blvd., Roseville, CA 95747
(916) 771-4447 www.pgcc.church
Email: 1730pgccoffice@gmail.com
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