1. Affection from the Apple

01/04/09 - by Chuck Monan, Preaching Minister For nearly thirty years, PV has been an important part of God’s work at the Springfield Gardens Church of Christ in Queens, N.Y.  This area is one of the most racially and ethnically...

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2. A Letter from the Elders

(Editor’s Note – About a year after I arrived at PV we launched a search for an Involvement Minister. We interviewed several talented, qualified candidates. Yet the search committee couldn’t reach agreement on any of them. Every...

12/26/2008 | Print | PDF | Email | Read more...

3. Christmas

12/22/2008 - By Chuck Monan, Preaching Minister (Editor’s Note – Every year at this time I read the words of the late Reuel Lemmons on the subject of Christmas.  My hope is that the following thoughts bless you as much...

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4. The Worst Christmas Gift in the World

12/14/2008 - By Chuck Monan, Preaching Minister   One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a...

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5. The Letter

By Chuck Monan, Preaching Minister    And girls in slacks remember Dad,  And oafish louts remember Mum, And sleepless children’s hearts are glad, And Christmas-morning bells say ‘Come!’ Even to shining ones who dwell...

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