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  • 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…)

  • News & Notes – March 5, 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 – By Rejection  (Matthew 23:37)

    Jesus came from humble beginnings, of low social status.  In those days the Jewish people were like the world today in that they had an upper class of the rich and educated.  Similarly, the religious leaders were financially well off (perhaps through corruption?) and highly educated.  They had taken on a “haughty air” about them in the fashion of their Roman conquerors.  One reason was because they along with their kings were just puppets who co-operated with their overlords, for their own advancement.  That’s why this humble carpenter was not well received by the scribes and Pharisees when he began to teach the gospel of peace, reverently and humbly, but with authority even casting out demons and healing the sick.  He was too much for them, but just right for us. (more…)

  • News & Notes – February 26, 2017

    THINKING AHEAD FOR LENT – By Temptation (Matthew 4:1-11)

    He chose to be made like us in all things.  It is of utmost importance to note that, although Jesus was in fact, born into this world in a body just like ours (that knew fear, anxiety, sadness and joy) yet he was still perfect, without sin.  The Holy Spirit reveals in the Word that Jesus had to be born in a human body to be tempted as we are.  The Word is clear, giving us hope that we will be fully delivered from our shame, our pain, our wounds – delivered out of temptation just as we have been freed from the consequence of sin by our association with him. (more…)

  • Prayer Circle – February 26, 2017

    Sometimes simply earthly trinkets can create happiness in our lives. And, of course, they can come and go. But that which has value far beyond our temporal gifts is of eternal worth. May we never take those things for granted, and join with the Apostle Paul in his prayer to the Ephesians:

    I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you (us) with all power through his Spirit…that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ… (Eph. 3)

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