Welcome to Saints Andrew & Matthias
We are located at 2415 McCann Road in the little village of Irving Michigan. In our historic (1878) brick building we use the historic King James Bible at all our services. We are traditional old fashioned Christians , using the old fashioned types of services from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. We feel it is our duty as Christians in the Church to try, with the Holy Spirit's guidance, to bring others to Christ and thereby change the world, and not to instead let the world change the Church.
Please join us for worship this week to see if you think we are the church that you have been looking for.
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Our Next Special Service
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Wednesday​​
December 18th
Ember Wednesday
11:30 AM
Morning Prayer
&
Holy Communion
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BIBLE
STUDY
December 28th
10:30am
SUNDAY SERVICE TIMES
9:15 AM
Morning Prayer
10:30 AM
Holy Communion
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Rt. Rev. David Hustwick
Rector
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Rev. Paul Henderson
Assistant
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Mrs. Beth Lepak
Musical Director
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December 28th
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Adult
BIBLE STUDY
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of each Month
10:30 to 11:30 AM
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269-953-7468
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NEWSLETTER
This Week's Collect & Sermon Text
Advent I
The Text for This Week's Sermon
The First Sunday in Advent
The Collect
ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and [the]* dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen
Hebrews 12:14-29
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
The Sermon for This Week
George was telling friends how his first-aid classes had prepared him for an emergency.
“I saw a woman hit by a car,” George said. “She had a broken arm, a twisted knee and a skull fracture.”
“How horrible! What did you do?”, his friend asked.
“Thanks to my first-aid training”,George replied, “I knew just how to handle it. I sat on the curb and put my head between my knees to keep from fainting.”
Today I'd like to speak a bit about our being really prepared for something very important.
As Christians we need to be prepared for Christ's second coming. We do not know when that will be, but we do need to be prepared.
Heb. 12:28 “Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.”
In this Epistle to the Hebrews we are reminded once again that we, as Christians, have been made citizens of the “heavenly Jerusalem”.
We are children of God's new covenant through faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus, “the mediator of the new covenant”, established it with his own blood that was shed on the cross for us.
In this “heavenly Jerusalem” we are told we will have some very exalted company.
To begin with “an innumerable company of angels".
These holy angels serve and praise God in heaven and behold his face. They will be our companions there.
Also there will be all of our fellow believers in the universal church. That is, all true Christians no matter what denominations they may belong to here today.
Of course also the “spirits of just men made perfect” will be there as well.
They are of course the departed saints who are no longer in the world now, but have gone before us and have now been made perfect through Christ.
We must not doubt our salvation, for the same God who has granted perfection to these saints will also bring us to that perfect bliss.
We are really already united with them in the Church.
Our lives here in this world should be a preparation, a getting ready, to join them in perfection before the throne of God someday in heaven.
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We need to use our time during this Advent to not just prepare for Christmas, but for that time to come in heaven.
Vacation Bible School
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We pray for our Armed Forces at each of our Morning and Evening Prayer services.
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O LORD God of Hosts, stretch forth, we pray thee, thine almighty arm to strengthen and protect the Armed Forces of our country and those of our allies; Support them in the day of battle, and in the time of peace keep them safe from all evil; endue them with courage and loyalty; and grant that in all things they may serve without reproach; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
Memorial Day in Middleville 2022
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Memorial Days
ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, in whose hands are the living and the dead; We give thee thanks for all those thy servants who have laid down their lives in the service of our country. Grant to them thy mercy and the light of thy presence, that the good work which thou hast begun in them may be perfected; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen.
