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  • News & Notes – April 9, 2017

    EASTER BREAKFAST

    Everyone is invited! Bring friends and family! There will be scrambled eggs with ham, sausages, cheesy potatoes, cheese and sausage, fruit, pastries and muffins! Of course juice and coffee too! Easter Breakfast is served in the lower lobby with seating in the gymnasium between the 2 services on Easter Sunday 8:00-9:15am. We hope to see you there!

    Walk with Jesus – His Last Week on Earth – February 19 to April 9

    Adult Sunday Morning Study at 9:15am. During Lent this year we will reconstruct the final days of our Lord among us. Eight Gospel studies will enable us to relive with him each day, from the triumphal entry to the empty tomb. En route, we’ll witness the last meal with his disciples, his trial, his suffering and crucifixion, and his resurrection. The Gospel narratives are brisk through his three year ministry but all four eye witnesses “slowed the camera down” during Holy Week to show how intentional his passion was. He knew he was going to be persecuted – smitten, stricken and afflicted – yet he walked the path to cross with confident faith and consummate love. This chronology of his last week on earth will remind us why “believing you may have life in his name.” (John 20:31)

    THINKING AHEAD FOR LENT – By Pretense (Matthew 26:14-16)

    How can you betray God? Won’t he know what’s in your heart and what that you’re trying to pull the wool over his eyes? Of course! Jesus knew that Judas was hiding his desires, disguising his love of money, secretly manipulating circumstances for his own goals. Our masks become glued to our soul, when we start to believe our own lies. We too betray God when we harden to the law and think our way is better than his. He still reaches out to redeem us. He still calls us “friend.” (more…)

  • Prayer Circle – April 2, 2017

    And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”  John 9:2

    Many times people see illness or affliction as a punishment from God. The first disciples of Jesus were not different when they asked, “ … who sinned, this man or his parents?” (John 9:2b). Jesus responded that the man’s blindness was an opportunity for God’s glory to be displayed, and He healed the man.

    When illness comes to us or a loved one, we may not consider it to be an opportunity for God to display His goodness. And God’s goodness does not necessarily mean He will provide physical healing. He may, but do we need to have physical healing to see God’s goodness in our lives?

    Nothing, not even pain, can take away the assurance that Jesus died to pay for our sins; in this we have spiritual healing. We can be aware that God’s love, kindness, and presence are in our lives when our trust is in His promises. Illness or affliction cannot change that. Believing in Jesus Christ as Savior assures us of an everlasting life where there will be no more pain. (more…)

  • News & Notes – April 2, 2017

    EASTER BREAKFAST

    Everyone is invited! Bring friends and family! There will be scrambled eggs with ham, sausages, cheesy potatoes, cheese and sausage, fruit, pastries and muffins! Of course juice and coffee too! Easter Breakfast is served in the lower lobby with seating in the gymnasium between the 2 services on Easter Sunday 8:00-9:15am. We hope to see you there!

    WALK WITH JESUS – HIS LAST WEEK ON EARTH – February 19 to April 9.

    Adult Sunday Morning Study at 9:15am. During Lent this year we will reconstruct the final days of our Lord among us. Eight Gospel studies will enable us to relive with him each day, from the triumphal entry to the empty tomb. En route, we’ll witness the last meal with his disciples, his trial, his suffering and crucifixion, and his resurrection. The Gospel narratives are brisk through his three year ministry but all four eye witnesses “slowed the camera down” during Holy Week to show how intentional his passion was. He knew he was going to be persecuted – smitten, stricken and afflicted – yet he walked the path to cross with confident faith and consummate love. This chronology of his last week on earth will remind us why “believing you may have life in his name.” (John 20:31)

    THINKING AHEAD FOR LENT – Indifference (Matthew 26:36-45)

    On the upside his love endures through all things, through life long marriages, in our human relationships with spouse, with parents, with children, in the church, in ministry, in associations with friends and neighbors. On the downside his love endures through religious persecution, personal insults, issues at church, gossip, misunderstandings, false teaching, failures in business, family strain, injury, illness, disaster, war. Even through indifference and apathy which have displayed the cancer of soul so prevalent in our self-absorbed, self-gratifying culture. Even when we drink in the world’s liquor of selfishness, he still cares. (more…)

  • Prayer Circle-March 26, 2017

    “I believe that Jesus Christ, true God, begotten of the Father from eternity, and also true man, born of the virgin Mary, is my Lord.  He has redeemed me, a lost and condemned creature, purchased and won me from all sins, from death and from the power of the devil, not with gold or silver, but with his holy, precious blood and with his innocent suffering and death.”

    Jesus has saved you from all the attacks of Satan and the effects of sin!  That means you aren’t going to hell – he no longer holds any anger against you, and death cannot harm you.  Hell couldn’t hold him and has no hold on you.

    Don’t let the tempter make you think he’s a slave master or that you have to serve him in order to be saved.  Give that up for Lent, by repenting of thinking that Jesus is some despot that you have to satiate or satisfy.  Let him be your Lord today and every day by letting him love you. (more…)

  • News & Notes – March 26, 2017

    Walk with Jesus – His Last Week on Earth

    February 19 to April 9.  Adult Sunday Morning Study at 9:15am.   During Lent this year we will reconstruct the final days of our Lord among us.  Eight Gospel studies will enable us to relive with him each day, from the triumphal entry to the empty tomb.  En route, we’ll witness the last meal with his disciples, his trial, his suffering and crucifixion, and his resurrection.  The Gospel narratives are brisk through his three year ministry but all four eye witnesses “slowed the camera down” during Holy Week to show how intentional his passion was.  He knew he was going to be persecuted – smitten, stricken and afflicted – yet he walked the path to cross with confident faith and consummate love.  This chronology of his last week on earth will remind us why “believing you may have life in his name.”  (John 20:31)

    THINKING AHEAD FOR LENT  – Willfulness  (Matthew 16:21-23)

    We do not have a God and Father whose will is to let us linger in the pain of the past, any more than you would let your child or best friend stand there with a bleeding cut and do nothing for them.  The love of our Savior comes to us, cleansing and healing, not only our sins and twisted perversions, but also the wounds and brokenness of our damaged minds and emotions.  Jesus willed himself to bring this gift to us.  He reached the point of complete collapse (“take this cup from me”) and yet he held on, to faith, to us.  He was so bruised and disfigured that he was barely recognizable.  That’s how far God is willing to go to forgive.  That willing is God’s willing, the desire to seek and save that which was lost.

    EASTER BREAKFAST

    Everyone is invited! Bring friends and family! There will be scrambled eggs with ham, sausages, cheesy potatoes, cheese and sausage, fruit, pastries and muffins!  Of course juice and coffee too!  Easter Breakfast is served in the lower lobby with seating in the gymnasium between the 2 services on Easter Sunday 8:00-9:15am.  We hope to see you there! (more…)

  • Prayer Circle – March 19, 2017

    [Be] filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ – to the glory and praise of God.  (Philippians 1:11)

    “Actions speak louder than words.” How true! And actions praise louder—and often more convincingly—than words when God’s love motivates the actions.

    God’s love took action in Jesus Christ. Jesus lived God’s love for us in His suffering and death on the cross for our sins. His love brought us redemption and a new, living, and eternal relationship with God, our Father. We rightly praise Jesus for His act of love on our behalf.

    We doubly praise Him when we put our praise in action by keeping His command to serve others. That’s active praise. It costs something, however, to practice active praise. It can cost convenience. Time. Resources. Personal preferences. It can cost the opportunity to do something far more glamorous and lucrative. Yet service motivated by praise keeps on serving. Why? Because Jesus’ love neither stopped for His convenience, nor required the recognition and applause of others. Jesus’ example shows what active love looks like. In Him, let your actions show forth His praise! (more…)

  • Prayer Circle – March 12, 2017

    … pray without ceasing … (1 Thessalonians 5:17).

    I think it’s safe to say that babies are born with little patience. They want to eat … NOW. They need a diaper change … NOW. They want to be picked up … NOW. And when they don’t get what they want NOW, they are very persistent in letting you know about it.

    Jesus approves of persistence. In his Gospel, Luke recorded a parable Jesus told His disciples about always praying and not giving up. In the parable, a widow kept approaching an unrighteous judge to demand justice against her adversary. Because of her persistence, the judge granted her the justice she was seeking. (Luke 18:1–8.)

    The lesson of Jesus’ parable is this: if an unrighteous judge will listen to the persistent cries of a widow and give to her what she asks, how much more will our loving, righteous God listen to the persistent prayers of His people? The apostle Paul encourages us to be persistent as we learn to pray without ceasing. We have God’s assurance that He will hear us and He will answer us. (more…)

  • News & Notes – March 19, 2017

    Call Meeting

    Sunday, March 19 at 11:45 am

    EASTER BREAKFAST

    Everyone is invited! Bring friends and family! There will be scrambled eggs with ham, sausages, cheesy potatoes, cheese and sausage, fruit, pastries and muffins!  Of course juice and coffee too!  Easter Breakfast is served in the lower lobby with seating in the gymnasium between the 2 services on Easter Sunday 8:00-9:15am.  We hope to see you there!

    Walk with Jesus – His Last Week on Earth

    February 19 to April 9.  Adult Sunday Morning Study at 9:15am.   During Lent this year we will reconstruct the final days of our Lord among us.  Eight Gospel studies will enable us to relive with him each day, from the triumphal entry to the empty tomb.  En route, we’ll witness the last meal with his disciples, his trial, his suffering and crucifixion, and his resurrection.  The Gospel narratives are brisk through his three year ministry but all four eye witnesses “slowed the camera down” during Holy Week to show how intentional his passion was.  He knew he was going to be persecuted – smitten, stricken and afflicted – yet he walked the path to cross with confident faith and consummate love.  This chronology of his last week on earth will remind us why “believing you may have life in his name.”  (John 20:31)

    THINKING AHEAD FOR LENT

    Injustice  (Matthew 26:57-68)  Despite the verdict of “guilty” heaped upon him with lies and false testimony, Jesus held his ground.  His framework was “gentle kindness” a concept in Greek that means the supernatural ability to work for the betterment of people who are exasperating you and exhausting your patience.  We note that has to be God at work.  It’s because love “always protects, always trust, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails.” (1 Cor. 13)  He bore the injustice for us.  He did it willingly.  Out of pure love. (more…)

  • News & Notes – March 12, 2017

    THINKING AHEAD FOR LENT

    By Mockery  (Matthew 27:27-31) Christ the Son, temporarily gave up position and pre-eminence in heaven though he was still fully God in spirit and soul. He and his family were simple members of the local synagogue. Like so many everyday people of our time, they attended church and went back home to family, friends, and neighbors, back to working their trade and caring for their people. A man of no reputation? Even with such a lowly background his enemies wanted to crush him. They beat him and laughed. They mocked him and sneered. They took everything away from him while he was giving them every ounce of love he could muster. Hearts of darkness and stone attack him, but he used his hands and words to heal.

    Walk with Jesus – His Last Week on Earth

    February 19 to April 9.  Adult Sunday Morning Study at 9:15am.

    During Lent this year we will reconstruct the final days of our Lord among us.  Eight Gospel studies will enable us to relive with him each day, from the triumphal entry to the empty tomb.  En route, we’ll witness the last meal with his disciples, his trial, his suffering and crucifixion, and his resurrection.  The Gospel narratives are brisk through his three year ministry but all four eye witnesses “slowed the camera down” during Holy Week to show how intentional his passion was.  He knew he was going to be persecuted – smitten, stricken and afflicted – yet he walked the path to cross with confident faith and consummate love.  This chronology of his last week on earth will remind us why “believing you may have life in his name.”  (John 20:31)
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  • Prayer Circle – March 5, 2017

    When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.  (Luke 9:51)

    Ash Wednesday marks a turning point in the book of Luke, and it is a turning point also for us. We are leaning now into the season of Lent, the barest season of the year. Spring is so near, and yet so far.  As winter lingers, we bundle up, and we drink hot drinks, and we huddle together to worship and to sing songs of hope, and of journey, and of weariness. We set our faces toward springtime, as Jesus set his face toward Jerusalem.

    But the land between here and there is rough. Over the next several weeks, we will travel with Jesus toward his destination. But while he is always journeying, he never seems to be getting any closer to Jerusalem itself, so that by chapter 17, after 8 chapters of travel, he is still “between Samaria and Galilee,” miles and miles from Jerusalem.

    If you know this feeling, always pushing toward some goal, always with your face set toward the destination, but never getting there, never arriving, then this Lenten season is for you. Here’s a time to reflect on the gifts the journey brings to you and to others, and to reconsider how your journey in life steps into the footsteps of our Savior and leads to the cross. (more…)

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