Author: Todd Baker

This is the week!  We are holding a Sunday service in our building for the first time in 3 months.  The sermon for this week, since it is Father’s Day, is “The Problems With Being a Dad.   Please note, however, that the message will have truth and application relevant for everyone! We hope you will join in, either in person or on our livestream, which we will continue to offer.  If you are coming in person, here is what you can expect and what we ask you to do: We will have one condensed service at 10:45 that we encourage …

Do you like to see where you are going?  Have you ever had someone come to your rescue with a flashlight when you were lost in the dark? We as Christians are children of the Kingdom of Light and as a result are called to walk in the Light and thereby be light here in this dark world.  Come join us here Online at 10:45 June 14 as we unpack what this means from Ephesians 5.

We had another wonderful outdoor service today!  God gave us such beautiful weather and many people worked together to make it a wonderful experience with a great music and worship time together. We also looked at the important but difficult issue of racial bias and the need to confront this issue in our own lives and seek to be instruments of change in our world.  I encourage you to listen to todays timely message as we seek to have a biblical understanding of this issue and corresponding behavior.  

This Sunday we are having our first in person service in 12 weeks!  We are going to use the outdoors as our venue for this first time back together.  Join us for this full worship service with congregational singing, special music, and a message from the book of Matthew that will give us some important reminders as we emerge from this pandemic.  We ask that you bring your own chair to join us. We will also have a limited number of parking spaces for those who’s health needs require the shelter of their car.  Come join us! We do ask …

From the very day we are born, we begin looking to others for cues on how to live.  God has given children the incredible desire to both mimic their parents and seek a response from their actions.  Even into adulthood, the truth is we are still doing this: looking to those around us for cues how to behave in a certain situation and hoping to get signals that we are OK.  The problem is, we might not be picking the right people and the right behavior to mimic.  God gives us some clear direction in Ephesians 5, join me as …

Some people are saying that the Corona virus crisis is God’s judgment on America (or the world or . . . you pick the target).  Are they correct?  Others are asking, how can a good, loving God allow this to happen?  Does true, biblical, Christianity have any substantial answers for this or just sympathy?  We should be ministering, showing the love of Christ, and weeping together with those that weep, but is the love of Christ limited to just a helping hand and a shoulder to cry on, or can we offer something deeper at the same time?  I want …

This week we will look at a true story from the Old Testament of a widow and her son in a tough situation.  It illustrates Paul’s Words from Philippians 4, “I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”  Come join us at 10:45 for the livestream.  It will be encouraging to Mom and everyone else.

After making the command to put off the old and put on the new, Paul now gives specific instruction on just how we are to do that. Here in Ephesians 4:25-32 Paul deals with anger and our speech.  He further explains how important this is because if we speak and act according to the old life, we are causing the Holy Spirit of God, who dwells in us, to grieve.  The new man, on the other hand,  builds up others and displays the compassion and forgiveness of Christ.  Join us in looking at just how these different lifestyles can play …

It says in 1 Corinthians 4:17 that “if any man be in Christ he is a new creation, old things have passes away, behold all things have become new”.  We don’t, however, always want to let go of the old, we want to hang on to it.  We are used to it, we are comfortable with it, and it has shared a lot of habits together with us.  As we look at Ephesians 4:17-24, we will start to get an understanding why it is so important to be done with the old and live in the new God has given …