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Church Activities Cancelled for January 20
All Church activities are cancelled for January 20, 2019 because of forcasted weather and … [Read More...]
New Year’s Eve Service
Our New Year’s Eve Service for the upcoming year of 2019 will be at 5:00 PM on December … [Read More...]
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Services
Our Christmas Eve Service, December 24, will be at 7:00 PM. It will be a service of … [Read More...]
Sermons
Jonah 1:1-17: The God Hidden within Creation
“The Word of the Lord,” coming from God Himself, changes what a person receives, from the … [More...]
Amos 9:11-15: The Real Celebration
The shout goes out, “The party’s over!” The last call for alcohol is now past, and … [More...]
Luke 2:41-52: Where is Jesus?
A fascinating account! The only reliable report of Jesus from the time He returned … [More...]
Articles
The Apostles’ Creed, Lesson 1
What is a Creed? Creed comes from the Latin word credere, meaning “to believe.” Our English word “credible” comes from credere, meaning what someone says is believable. So, a creed is a statement of what someone believes or trusts to be true. “I believe the earth is round, not flat,” is an example of a creed. In Christianity, a creed states what Christians believe (or are supposed to … [More...]
Walking and Working in our Wilderness
The season of Epiphany begins with an underhanded Herod and the visit of the “wise men,” Magi, to the infant Jesus. In a way, Herod is like the Pharaoh of ancient Egypt, who stood in God’s way, attempting to keep His children enslaved. So, the Exodus is more than a historical event, also serving as a foreshadow of our Epiphany Lord. The Magi arrive in Jerusalem, wondering where the … [More...]
The Theology of Suffering (Bad Things Happening to Good People)
This is the Sunday School Lesson for Dec 2, 2018, changed because of events in the life of our congregation. The only difference from this and the lesson used is this one lacks the graphics. The Theology of Glory versus the Theology of the Cross Before we look into suffering, we need to look into two different approaches, or lenses, through which we understand events in our lives: … [More...]
Making Sense of God when Our World Doesn’t
This is our pastor's newsletter for November 2018. In our grief, we sigh, “Why, Lord?” Such words formed in my mouth when Dean Webb died, with Sandy, his wife, a short time later. Today, as I write this article, I still am grappling with losing them both. Though I am a pastor, God sends down no privileged doorway into His private deliberations. So, I can’t answer this question of … [More...]
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