Anxiety is a big problem.  Estimates show that 4% of the world’s population struggles with it, according to the 2023 U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey* over 19% of Americans report an anxiety disorder.  Studies indicate that Christians are not at all immune to this.  A complicating factor is that several times in the Scriptures, believers are commanded not to worry.  For some, this just adds a new worry – worrying about not worrying!  What can be done? I think one of the problems is that we are often told what we shouldn’t do, but not near as much time is …

While summer officially began two weeks ago, in most American’s minds it began on May 27th with the celebration of Memorial Day. While that day seems to be all about picnics, camping, and time together with friends and family, the original purpose was to remember those who have died, specifically, those who died in the wars our country fought. So it is with all holidays – they are for remembering. We recently observed Juneteenth and we are going to be celebrating Independance Day. These days are meant to commemorate significant events in our nation’s history, not just give us a …

Today we are privileged to have Asa and Suzanna Bartos and family with us. God has called Asa and Suz to encourage the Latin American church to full maturity and equip them with training and resources that are inaccessible or lacking. They long to see Latin Americans multiply leaders, churches, and missions movements among every people. Asa is passionate about teaching and counseling others and hopes to assist in planting churches, encouraging pastors, and counseling families, especially husbands and fathers. He is pursuing further ministry education in the realm of biblical counseling. Both he and Suz love music and expect …

Being a dad is hard!  Not only is the day to day challenging, but there is always that underlying question, “Am I doing it right?  We worry if we are missing something, if there is a secret rule somewhere we are forgetting to follow. We also fall into the comparison trap, looking at other families and compare our parenting with theirs, our kids with their kids, and our successes and failures with their successes or failures.  That can be discouraging, making us feel like we are a failure and wanting to quiet. I hope in this message that everyone will …

The Gospel calls us to a different way of life as followers of Jesus.  Pride and division are to have no place, yet they often sneak in the back door, disguised as good things.  We always have to be on guard. Pride comes in many forms: maybe in the form of goals, maybe in the form of styles, maybe in the form of a hyper-focus on specific details.  It always brings terrible outcomes, such as strife, personal attacks, church splits, and angry outbursts.  God has given us a very clear path to avoiding this – being of one mind in …

So you are reading this post -why?  Are you thinking of watching the service?  Why? What motivates you to come to church or watch it here?  Are you looking for answers to questions?  Are you looking for Bible teaching?  Do you feel an obligation to be part of church on Sunday, one way or another?  What is bringing you here? If you are driven by guilt or obligation, or thinking that spending some time in church on Sunday’s is going to help you get to heaven, could I recommend that you first watch my last message from Philippians 3 here?  …

Are you joyful?  What makes you that way? If you struggle with being joyful, have you identified why?  Are you looking for circumstances to give you joy?  Are you striving for goals that you think will bring you joy when accomplished? If you are joyful, do you know why?  Will it last? Today we are going to talk about God’s plan for our joy as seen in Philippians 3, and some common reasons it often alludes us.  I believe this message will be very relevant and encouraging and hope you will follow along.  

God’s blessings to all the hard-working, self-sacrificing moms out there; you are a cornerstone of our society!  I have had the blessing of not only having a godly mother who instilled so many important values into me, I have also been blessed with an amazing wife who has done the same for our children, continuing on the legacy of her mom. But not everyone has that privilege.  Some moms wish they had a good example to follow, some men have never seen up close what a godly woman is like.  In this message, my desire is to affirm the godly …