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JUNE 18, 2025                 
WHEN JESUS COMES TO TOWN
 
Dear Snyder's Church Family and Friends,
 
This coming Sunday our Scripture lesson is based on St. Luke 8: 26 - 39 and the sermon title is "Casting Out Demons!"
We shall sing "Sweet Sweet Spirit"; "Rock Of Ages";
"Take My Life And Let It Be" along with other special selected music.
Jeff will continue his Children's moment and we will be blessed as we Worship and Praise God together.
 
In a recent lecture Christian author Christopher Lasch, wonders about the lack of morality and human values in our society today Many liberals today, says Lasch, see public life as an amoral struggle for profit and power and relegate morality to the shadowy realm of private choice and "lifestyles." What we need he says is a new sense of fraternalism, a new sense of brotherhood that is neither self-righteous nor exploitative. To bring more peace and wholeness we need to cast out the demons of greed and exploitation and indifference.
 
When Jesus comes into an area, He not only casts out demons,
He changes the economy because He changes people, their goals,
their values. When Paul preached Christ's gospel in ancient Ephesus, the silversmiths and others who made religious souvenirs and idols of the goddess, Diana, knew their economy was in rubble if Jesus' religion flourished.
 
John Newton, author of "Amazing Grace" finally stopped his slave trading when Jesus really got hold of his life. Charles Colson,
Richard Nixon's hatchet man, was converted and spent the rest of his life in prison reform.
 
What would happen to our frantic age of greed if Jesus really got hold of us and drove out our demons?
Come this Sunday and hear what happened when Jesus did drive out demons!
May you truly be blessed today and may you also truly be a blessing to others.
Know that you are loved and we welcome you to the fellowship of Snyder's Church. 
 
Pastor Bill