Cedar Creek AME Church

Cedar Creek AME Church We are Kingdom Builders reaching beyond the physical walls of the church to spread the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

August 29 Devotion No Hiding Why do we keep hiding our deepest feelings from each other? We suffer much, but we also hav...
08/29/2022

August 29 Devotion
No Hiding
Why do we keep hiding our deepest feelings from each other? We suffer much, but we also have great gifts of healing for each other. The mystery is that by hiding our pain we also hide our ability to heal. . . . We are called to confess to each other and forgive each other, and thus to discover the abundant mercy of God. But at the same time, we are so terribly afraid of being hurt more than we already are. This fear keeps us prisoners, even when the prison has no walls! I see better every day how radical Jesus’ message of love really is.

"Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body." - Ephesians 4: 25 (NIV)
Henri Nouwen

08/29/2022

No Hiding
Why do we keep hiding our deepest feelings from each other? We suffer much, but we also have great gifts of healing for each other. The mystery is that by hiding our pain we also hide our ability to heal. . . . We are called to confess to each other and forgive each other, and thus to discover the abundant mercy of God. But at the same time, we are so terribly afraid of being hurt more than we already are. This fear keeps us prisoners, even when the prison has no walls! I see better every day how radical Jesus’ message of love really is.

"Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body." - Ephesians 4: 25 (NIV)
By Henri Nouwen

08/28/2022

Church School will resume next Sunday at 8:30. Blessings, Rev. Kayla Eskew

07/02/2022

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is excited to visit New Bethel for a brief book talk and to sign books on Sunday, July 3rd, at noon. Daughter of Michael and Panzie Alberta Johnson, both life-long members of New Bethel AME Church and proud graduates of Allen University.

Johnson's debut book of fiction "My Monticello" was called "a masterly feat" by the New York Times and featured on Good Morning America. Listed as #3 on Time Magazine's best books of 2021, My Monticello was also the winner of the Weatherford Award, the Lillian Smith Award, and a finalist for many others. One story in Johnson's collection, “Control Negro” was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and read live by LeVar Burton. Another story, My Monticello, the novella for which the collection is named, is being
adapted into a film by Netflix.

06/11/2022

Join the Columbia District for the Church School Convention.

05/29/2022

Church school will resume this afternoon at 3pm.

DAILY MEDITATION | MAY 25, 2022God is with us in CommunityThe community of faith offers the protective boundaries within...
05/25/2022

DAILY MEDITATION | MAY 25, 2022
God is with us in Community

The community of faith offers the protective boundaries within which we can listen to our deepest longings, not to indulge in morbid introspection, but to find our God to whom they point. In the community of faith we can listen to our feelings of loneliness, to our desires for an embrace or a kiss, to our sexual urges, to our cravings for sympathy, compassion, or just a good word; also to our search for insight and to our hope for companionship and friendship. In the community of faith we can listen to all these longings and find the courage, not to avoid them or cover them up, but to confront them in order to discern God’s presence in their midst.
Henri J. M. Nouwen

"Surely you desire truth in the inner parts..."

PSALM 51:6 (NIV)

DAILY MEDITATION | MAY 18, 2022Listen to the Voice of Gentle LoveListen to your heart. It’s there that Jesus speaks most...
05/18/2022

DAILY MEDITATION | MAY 18, 2022
Listen to the Voice of Gentle Love
Listen to your heart. It’s there that Jesus speaks most intimately to you. Praying is first and foremost listening to Jesus who dwells in the very depths of your heart. He doesn’t shout. He doesn’t thrust himself upon you. His voice is an unassuming voice, very nearly a whisper, the voice of a gentle love. Whatever you do with your life, go on listening to the voice of Jesus in your heart. This listening must be an active and very attentive listening, for in our restless and noisy world God’s so loving voice is easily drowned out. You need to set aside some time every day for this active listening to God if only for ten minutes. Ten minutes each day for Jesus alone can bring about a radical change in your life.

You’ll find it isn’t easy to be still for ten minutes at a time. You’ll discover straightaway that many other voices, voices that are very noisy and distracting, voices that do not come from God, demand your attention. But if you stick to your daily prayer time, then slowly but surely you’ll come to hear the gentle voice of love and will long more and more to listen to it.
Henri J. M. Nouwen

DAILY MEDITATION | MAY 14, 2022God Invites Us Into Unceasing ConversationPrayer is not introspection. It is not a scrupu...
05/14/2022

DAILY MEDITATION | MAY 14, 2022
God Invites Us Into Unceasing Conversation
Prayer is not introspection. It is not a scrupulous, inward-looking analysis of our own thoughts and feelings but it is a careful attentiveness to the Presence of Love personified inviting us to an encounter. Prayer is the presentation of our thoughts— reflective thoughts, as well as daydreams, and night dreams—to the One who receives them, sees them in the light of unconditional love, and responds to them with divine compassion. This context of thinking in the Presence, of conversation and dialogue with Love, is the joyful affirmation of our gentle Companion on the journey with God who knows our minds and hearts, our goodness and our beauty, our darkness and our light. The Psalmist prays the prayer for us (Psalms 139:1–3; 23–24):

O Lord, you search me and you know me, you know my resting and my rising,
you discern my purpose from afar.
You mark when I walk or lie down,
all my ways lie open to you. . . .
O search me, God, and know my heart. O test me and know my thoughts.
See that I follow not the wrong path and lead me in the path of life eternal.
Henri J. M. Nouwen

DAILY MEDITATION | MAY 12, 2022Something Has HappenedOne of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happ...
05/12/2022

DAILY MEDITATION | MAY 12, 2022
Something Has Happened
One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you stay with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you suddenly realize that something has happened. What is most close, most intimate, most present often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance. When I think I am only distracted, just wasting my time, something is happening too immediate for knowing, understanding, and experiencing. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place. Isn’t this true of all really important events in life? When I am together with someone I love very much, we seldom talk about our relationship. The relationship, in fact, is too central to be a subject of talk. But later, after we have separated and write letters, we realize how much it all meant to us, and we even write about it.
Henri J. M. Nouwen

DAILY MEDITATION | MAY 11, 2022Be Still and WaitMaybe I have been living much too fast, too restlessly, too feverishly, ...
05/11/2022

DAILY MEDITATION | MAY 11, 2022
Be Still and Wait
Maybe I have been living much too fast, too restlessly, too feverishly, forgetting to pay attention to what is happening here and now, right under my nose. Just as a whole world of beauty can be discovered in one flower, so the great grace of God can be tasted in one small moment. Just as no great travels are necessary to see the beauty of creation, so no great ecstasies are needed to discover the love of God. But you have to be still and wait so that you can realize that God is not in the earthquake, the storm, or the lightning, but in the gentle breeze with which he touches your back.
Henri J. M. Nouwen

DAILY MEDITATION | MAY 6, 2022Keep Your Eyes Fixed on JesusKeep your eyes fixed on Jesus and ask him more directly to gi...
05/06/2022

DAILY MEDITATION | MAY 6, 2022
Keep Your Eyes Fixed on Jesus
Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus and ask him more directly to give you joy, peace, and a pure heart. Purity of heart means a heart where God is the center of your attention. Take a simple sentence like “The Lord is my shepherd there is nothing I shall want,” and repeat that quietly during the day until the truth of it enters the center of your being. You will always continue to have feelings of depression, anger, and restlessness, but when God dwells in the center of the storm, the storm is less frightening and you can live with trust that in the midst of all of the darkness you will be led to a place of joy and peace.
Henri J. M. Nouwen

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Winnsboro, SC
29180

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