Hungarian Presbyterian Church of Wharton

Hungarian Presbyterian Church of Wharton Ministering to the faithful in the Wharton area since 1904. What is the Reformed Faith ? Sola Fide means "by faith alone". He is One being with One essence.

We are a participating Church of the Presbytery of the Highlands which is part of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The Protestant Reformation that was begun by Martin Luther in 1517 was founded on three principles which are described with the Latin terms - Sola Gratia, Sola Fide, and Sola Scriptura:

Sola Gratia means "by Grace alone". That means that people cannot earn their way into Heaven by good

works but are entirely dependent on the generosity and grace of God for it. This eliminated the value of human merits and said that God alone could affect that outcome. This refers to the human side of the above concept. Since people can not actively earn their way into heaven, this statement was necessary to describe exactly what requirement actually applies to us. It essentially says that we each must totally accept that the Lord is God, that He is the only God, and that a person recognizes His atonement as freeing mankind to be able to accept Him. When a person deeply believes that, it fulfills the human responsibility, which then encourages the Lord to provide His grace. Sola Scriptura means "by the Bible alone". Rather than trusting any human to provide information about important religious matters, that statement means to ONLY rely on what the sacred Scripture says. The Reformed faith shares common beliefs with many other Christian denominations.

- We believe in the Trinity. While God is essentially One, He exists in Three distinct persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. He is not three beings or individual gods with the same nature. God has eternally existed as a triune God. God, who can do all things, is all wise, all good, all just, and all merciful.

- We believe that God manifested Himself to us as Jesus the Christ, both Son of God and son of man. He was born of the Virgin Mary. He is both God and human in one person, God incarnate, and was sent be our mediator and to give us salvation.

- We believe that Jesus was crucified, died, and literally rose from the dead on the third day as He predicted. Because God cannot tolerate sin in His presence, Jesus’ death and resurrection is the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

- We believe that everything required for our salvation has been offered and communicated to us in Jesus Christ. He is the ONLY way to salvation.

- We believe that in sending the Son, God’s sole intention was to show us love and immeasurable goodness. And we believe that in giving the Son to die and raising Him from the dead, God’s sole intention was to accomplish all righteousness and secure eternal life for us.

- We believe that we are only justified by faith, not by works, and receive salvation only through the mercy of God.

- We believe that Jesus Christ has been given to us as our only advocate, and that He commands us to pray to His Father in His name alone, not through the intercession of saints.

- We believe that the Holy Bible is the inspired Word of God and the infallible rule for faith and practice. Even though humans wrote it, the Holy Spirit, by His workings and His speech, was determining the resulting Word. The human authors were carried along under His power, ensuring that the product would be free from defect.

- We believe in only two sacraments – Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. These were the only sacraments Jesus personally commanded us to observe. The sacraments are pledges to us and seals of God’s grace, giving needed aid and comfort to our faith because of our weakness and immaturity. We believe that the sacraments are outward signs through which God works the truth of His spirit. At the same time we hold that their substance and power are in Jesus Christ alone, apart from Him, they are nothing.

09/06/2026

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs. Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover.

“On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.

“This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance. - Exodus 12:1-14.

09/06/2026

Today's Gospel reading.

“If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

“Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

“Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” - Matthew 18:15-20.

09/04/2026
Join us on this Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost at 10:15 am to worship the Lord and hear the Scriptures proclaimed as w...
09/02/2026

Join us on this Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost at 10:15 am to worship the Lord and hear the Scriptures proclaimed as we raise our voices in praise and song to the Lord in the Reformed/Presbyterian tradition.

Pastor Joe Martinoni will give a message titled, “Where is Hope Found?” which is based on Exodus 12:1-14; & Matthew 18:15-20.

08/31/2026

Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.

So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up. ” When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”

And Moses said, “Here I am.”

“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. ” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”

Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you."

God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’“

This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation. - Exodus 3:1-15.

08/30/2026

Today's Gospel reading.

From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”

Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.

“Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” - Matthew 16:21-28.

Join us on this Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost at 10:15 am to worship the Lord and hear the Scriptures proclaimed as ...
08/27/2026

Join us on this Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost at 10:15 am to worship the Lord and hear the Scriptures proclaimed as we raise our voices in praise and song to the Lord in the Reformed/Presbyterian tradition.

Pastor Joe Martinoni is back with us and will give a message titled, “Here and Now” which is based on Exodus 3:1-15 & Matthew 16:21-28.

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83 Robert Street
Wharton, NJ
07885

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10:15am - 11:15am

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