Sermon for Sunday Evening, February 27th, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Scripture reading: [Act 5:12-42 ESV] 12 Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico. 13 None of the rest dared join them, but …
Sermon on Acts 5:12-5:42 – “The Wisdom of Man and the Wisdom of God” Read More »
Sermon for Sunday, February 27th, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 40:34-38 ESV] 34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 35 And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on …
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Sermon for Sunday, February 20th, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 34:29-35 ESV] 29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face …
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Sermon for Sunday, February 13th, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 34:1-28 ESV] 1 The LORD said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. 2 …
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In a previous post here I noted the existence of a Meeting House that predates all of the churches in my area. Today I went and found it with the help of a local property owner nearby. The Meeting House, built on the land of Samuel Meeker in the late 18th century, is now is …
Sermon for Sunday, February 6th, 2022 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 33:1-23 ESV] 1 The LORD said to Moses, “Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, …
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Today’s Unionville, NY had other names in its early years. According to the histories, it was once known as “Tucker’s Store” since an early resident, Henry Tucker, operated a store out of his house here. Then the general area was referred to as “Westown” (with one “t”) or “Westtown” (with two “t’s”) being as it …
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Two newspapers noted a surprise wedding at the Unionville Presbyterian Church in 1878. The first is the Evening Gazette of Port Jervis, NY of August 1st of that year. The second, similar but with a few changes, is the Tri-States Union, also of Port Jervis, NY but from the next day, August 2nd.
