Preparing our Hearts to Worship In an effort to help you prepare for the April 30th, 2017, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on Prayer. I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is…
With genuine joy, we welcome all who have come to praise our Creator. There are no strangers here — we are all children of the heavenly Father. Message: Walking With Him Scripture: Micah 4:1-5 (Isaiah 2:2-5) Offering: Benevolence Fund April 30, 2017 This week we are asked to pray for Don and Elaine Snapper, Aaron…
“Speak to him strongly and directly; don’t be afraid.” This is what Pastor “Abraham” heard from the Lord before he led an ISIS fighter to Christ. The ISIS fighter, Fadi, had been in the area recruiting Muslims to come to Syria to fight for ISIS, when several people in the refugee camps where he was…
We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are comprehended in Christ [Acts 4:12]. We should therefore take care not to derive the least portion of it from anywhere else. If we seek salvation, we are taught by the very name of Jesus that it is “of him” [1 Cor. 1:30]. If we…
The glory of the Lord abides with us. We welcome all who have come to lift up their hearts and minds to Almighty God, our loving Creator. Message: Ordinary Men Doing Extraordinary Things Scripture: 1 Kings 17:1-7 Offering: General Fund Prayers: Help us to be mindful, Lord, that because you raised Christ on the first…
Many of these come from here. Here are some particularly insightful pages worth reading: India and New Zealand have granted personhood to rivers. That is right, those bodies of water that flow to the ocean. They are now officially recognized people, which means that humans can’t interfere with their natural flow. This piece looks at…
Preparing our Hearts to Worship Elijah An Ordinary Man In an effort to help you prepare for the April 23rd, 2017, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on the Life of Elijah. I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider…
Melissa Kruger urges moms and dads to do these 5 things in order to raise their children in the knowledge of the Lord: to plan their spiritual input into their children’s lives, to pray for them unceasingly, to partner with the church, to purge the good from their life in order to pursue God’s ultimate…
Theodorus VanderGroe, the Dutch further reformation theologian, wrote these words in his commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism. May these words encourage your soul as they tie the OT and the NT together in Christ. “In Daniel 6:17-28, we read of a noteworthy and well-known incident regarding the prophet. Since Daniel remained steadfast in worshiping and…