Yearly Archives: 2023

Delighting in God’s Design – Made for a Bigger Purpose

Delighting in God’s Design – Made for a Bigger Purpose

What brings you lasting satisfaction? Satisfaction that you are accomplishing something meaningful with your life, satisfaction that says, "This thing that I am investing in is good, it is much bigger than me, and will outlast me." Can you come up with anything? I hope so. Let me ask you this, how much does that…
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Delighting in God’s Design – for You!

Delighting in God’s Design – for You!

Do you believe that everything just happens by chance?  That any meaning in life is only what we can get from the face value of all that happens?  God wants us to be rescued from the despair of the mindset.  He wants us to that, while we live in a fallen world with much evil,…
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Delighting in God’s Design

Delighting in God’s Design

It is a common misconception that the Bible is just a book of rules; of prohibitions and mandates.  This comes from (and leads to) a very wrong view of God as some kind of stern, authoritarian, (and maybe grumpy) king in the sky that sees us a mere pawns on one of His planets.  Nothing…
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Jesus Our Gracious High Priest – Dr. Tim Bertolet

Jesus Our Gracious High Priest – Dr. Tim Bertolet

This week we are pleased to have with us Dr. Tim Bertolet with us from ABWE.  He will be sharing with us from Hebrews 4, encouraging us regarding our gracious high priest, Jesus Christ. Tim Bertolet serves at the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE) developing strategies for equipping missionaries,  creating missionary training, and…
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Delighting in God’s Design

Delighting in God’s Design

So much of the turmoil that we experience in life has a single root problem.   The hymnwriter Joseph Scriven wrote in famous hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" these words: "O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry, everything to God in prayer!" …
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Last Call

Last Call

We have reached the end of the book. God's Revelation to His church, His final recorded words to them, is complete.  These last words are critical to pay attention to.  They are an epilogue of all that has been shared and they remind the reader of the importance of the letter.  They include this two-part,…
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Communion Sunday

Communion Sunday

The observance of Communion, or the Lord's Supper, is one of two "ordinances" that God gave the church, the second being baptism.  Anyone with a Protestant or Catholic are familiar with both, though they are often looked at different ways.  In the message today, leading up to our observance, we are going to discuss a…
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Ballet Recital

Ballet Recital

Monday nights has been full of excitement and learning and on April 29, 2023 at 2:00 PM, the kids will be presenting a recital. Come out or you can watch the recital here. Thank you to Sarah Smith for leading this time in both dance and bible study. With Sarah we have Megan and Sarah…
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The End of the Story

The End of the Story

This week I was at a church building where I had performed a wedding for a young couple 15 years ago.  Tragedy hit that couple about 9 years after that wonderful, happy day, and I thought to myself, "We never know the end of a story, we never know how things turn out." But then,…
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The New Jerusalem

The New Jerusalem

After all the judgment covered in Revelation 20 and the preceding chapters, we are enjoying a glimpse into heaven and the eternal state for followers of Jesus.  Here in Revelation 21 God reveals a taste of those eternal blessings for those who are followers of Jesus.  It is a trailer for the grand unveiling of…
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