Summer 2024 RYA Weekend

Twice per year, our congregation in Corbin City, New Jersey hosts a free retreat for youth and young adults (teens through twenties+), Reformed Young Adult (RYA) Weekends. These events are a very special time of fun, fellowship, and worship. There is ample accommodation, but anyone interested should secure a place as soon as possible. The next RYA weekend is scheduled for August 9-11, with the theme, “Fighting Fear.” More information and sign up here!

Here is the post for the last RYA weekend. And the following are from previous ones: October 2021; February 2022; August 2022 & here, & here;  March 2023, September 2023.

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Note: We recently contracted the earlier “Reformed Youth and Young Adult” (RYYA) Weekend to “Reformed Young Adult Weekend” (RYA). Those in middle and high school are still very welcome.

“The Temptation of Jesus” Summer Series / Ciclo de Verano “La Tentación de Jesús”

Join us for a short preaching series with three area pastors on the temptations of Jesus in Matthew 4. Complete information in English and Spanish in the PDF below. Livestream event info here. And we’ll be singing psalms a capella.

Únase a nosotros para una serie de predicaciones cortas con tres pastores del área sobre las tentaciones de Jesús en Mateo 4. Información completa en inglés y español en el PDF abajo. Información sobre el evento en directo aquí. Y también cantaremos salmos a capella.

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Singing for Special Series / Canciones para Series Speciales

English. “Is any merry? Let him sing psalms” (James 5:13). For our special “Temptation of Jesus” meetings in Vineland on June 15, 22, and 29, we will be singing psalms a cappella that have been put to meter. Click on the hyperlinks below to listen and follow along with the words. The more who are familiar with the tunes will be able to sing along when we come together. (And sing as you are able; but don’t feel burdened to sing in a language that is not your own.)

Español. «¿Está alguno alegre? Que cante salmos» (Santiago 5:13). En nuestras reuniones especiales de «La tentación de Jesús» en Vineland, los días 15, 22 y 29 de junio, cantaremos salmos a capella puestos a compás. Haz clic en los hipervínculos de abajo para escuchar y seguir la letra. Los más familiarizados con las melodías podrán cantarlas cuando nos reunamos. (Y canta como puedas; pero no te sientas obligado a cantar en una lengua que no es la tuya).

Saturday, June 15

Psalm 100 (English); lyrics here

Salmo 42:1-4 (Español); letra bajo video

[Note, 6/20/24 — We are simply going to use the two metrical psalms above for the meetings on 6/22 and 6/29 also.]

Saturday, June 22

Salmo 1 (Español); también aquí

Psalm 1 (English); also here

Saturday, June 29

Salmo 116:1-10 (Español); también aquí

Psalm 116 (English); lyrics below video

Let the ‘Prophet’ prophesy!

Matthew 26:67-68, “Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?”

Calvin: “The object of all these expressions of contempt was, to show that nothing was more unlikely than that he should be a prince of prophets, who, in consequence of being blindfolded, was not able even to ward off blows. But this insolence was turned by the providence of God to a very different purpose; for the face of Christ, dishonored by spitting and blows, has restored to us that image which had been disfigured, and almost effaced, by sin.”