Imagine yourself this week walking down one of the aisles at the local grocery store. Just as you push your buggy up to get your favorite breakfast cereal, you bump into an old friend… Who proceeds to ask you about your church. What would you...
If I told you that image is everything, some of you will think back to the 1989 TV commercials, in which tennis star Andre Agassi used those words to promote the then state-of-the-art Canon EOS Rebel camera. Though the camera and those commercials have...
Why do some people see it and others do not? The apostle Paul wrote in Romans 1:20 that “since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has...
The disciples were facing what seemed to be the impossible. After a rich man walked away from Jesus in Matthew 19, Jesus told them that it would be “easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of...
Like many of you, I stayed up late on New Year’s Eve to watch the big ball drop over Times Square. As the final seconds of 2015 were counted down, I could not help but think of a great Creator who, in the beginning, set the world in motion so that a...
There are so many forgotten Christmas gifts. If you asked me, I might could list one or two of the gifts that I received last year. Going further back into Christmas pasts, I could tell you about a few special highlights. Don’t get me...
In times of difficulty, we need to be reminded of it and sometimes we need to be encouraged to fight for it. While sitting in a small prison cell, the apostle Paul wrote about it. Consider these words, “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will...
If you are looking for something that will get you in the “Christmas Spirit” this season, we have the perfect solution for you. Join us this Saturday for our annual Community Christmas Dinner. Whether you are cooking, packaging...
Are you hoping for victory this season? You will find victory in the words we read this past Sunday in Luke 1:38, “May it be to me as you have said.” In those words, Mary was opening her heart and mind to the Holy Spirit, who would pour...
I am thankful for you! Have you ever noticed that in all but one of Paul’s letters to a gathering of believers, he included a special word of thanksgiving for the lives and the faith of those believers? He did this, not to patronize or to...