Month: July 2023

Today we have a guest speaker, Paul Connor of the Pennsylvania Association of Regular Baptist Churches. Paul is just the fourth State Rep of the Association, having served in this position for 25 years, longer than anyone before him.  Paul loves the church and loves to preach, having served as a pastor in multiple PA churches before becoming State Rep for the PARBC.  Paul will be retiring in just 2 months and is sharing his farewells with as many of the Association’s churches as possible in these last months of his formal ministry, though I am sure he will continue …

Are you weary?  We began this series to help address the pain, sorrow, stress, and worry that have many people down.  Life is doubtless going to be hard at times, the question is, can you rise above?  While times of sorrow and mourning are to be expected, and stress will come no matter what we do, some seem to handle it better than others.  What is the key?  Is it ignoring our emotions?  Is it medicating them? In this message we want to talk about those feelings of pain and sorrow and gain the right perspective.  We want to talk …

What gets you down?  What wears on you, makes you feel that life is more than you can bear?  We all feel stress at times, we all experience loss, but sometimes, the severity of these and other difficult life events begin to take their toll.  Sometimes the sheer number of adverse experiences that we are dealing with become cumulatively overwhelming. In this message we want to explore and validate the wear and tear that life’s struggles can take on our emotional well-being.  We want to do a mental health check and see if we accurately understand where God is in …

It is our privilege to have Steve Martinez bring our message today. Steve married Ashely, a girl from our church, about 14 years ago and they served here for a time as our Youth Leaders. Steve has since served as a Youth Pastor, a Bible teacher at a Christian school, an Associate Pastor, and now serves full-time at a Christian School in California. We are excited to have him here today sharing about Christ’s love for us from John 13.