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7/19/26 Worship Service & Sermon: Fearing God in Crooked Days - Ecclesiastes 7:13-18

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Join us for Worship! 7/19/26 Sunday Service from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA. Worship Leader: Luke Stoltzfus Speaker: Dave Royes Title: Fearing God in Crooked Days Scripture: Ecclesiastes 7:13-18 Sermon Outline: 1. God controls what is crooked 2. God decrees every day 3. God preserves his people Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked? In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him. In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing. Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself? Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time? It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your ha...

4/19/26 Worship Service & Sermon:

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Join us for worship! 4/19/2026 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA Worship Leader: Steve Boyer Speaker: Dave Royes Scripture: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 Title: What's (Actually) New? The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns. All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again. All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. What has been is what will be, and ...