In our eagerness to serve God, we can get bogged down in running out of time in a twenty-hour period. Just the desire to fulfill our daily devotions, giving of our time to help the helpless and to give hope to the hopeless, and praying for all those on our hearts and on our prayer […]
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Psalm 89:2- “I will may your faithfulness known with my mouth.” We reveal our faith by the words we say. To be true to our faith, we must say what we believe out loud. Even if we are experiencing a transient crisis of faith, have overwhelming doubts about how to act in a certain situation,
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I have been reading a book about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. When the captain of the Fitz called the Coast Guard for help, the cry was ignored by a rookie Coastie. When her sister ship, the Anderson, called to tell the Coast Guard that the ship had disappeared, a few minutes after the
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When Jesus gave his disciples the Great Commission, he told them in Matthew 28:20 that he would be with them until the end of the age. When we encounter challenges that we weren’t expecting, how do we react? If it is locking our keys in the car far from home, do we blame ourselves? If
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Genesis 4:9 “Then the Lord said to Cain, ‘Where is Abel, your brother?’ And Cain said, ‘I do not know.’ Am I my brother’s keeper?’” The rabbis say that when Cain insisted that he wasn’t Abel’s keeper, he was apologizing to God for not knowing that killing his brother was weakening the influence of God
2 Corinthians 12:9: “My grace is sufficient for you, my power is made perfect in weakness.” God provides us His grace when we are most vulnerable before Him. There are days when we are confident that we are pleasing to God, and days when we think we have failed to live into the holiness we
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Carlo Carretto wrote in “The God Who Comes” these words: “We must assume an attitude of waiting, accepting the fact that we are creatures and not creator…the initiative is God’s…we are only to accept.” Sometimes, we can get it the other way around. While we are indeed creatures, God gifted us with extraordinary intelligence. That
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Thank you for the wonderful cookies and lemonade welcome “On the Porch.” I love that meeting place for fellowship. My family and I really enjoyed time with each of you. Such a warm welcome means so much to a new pastor. This week’s message is called “Spirit Life” and is based on Romans 8:1-11. How
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In the Christmas story, the primary attendants are shepherds. If there is a more humble occupation in the world than that if shepherd, I don’t know what it is. Guardian to a bunch of smelly sheep! I doubt that any special training was required ”just some common sense and a degree of courage. Only God
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Join us for Trunk or Treat in parking lot of Striplin Terrace on Saturday, October 25 from 4pm – 6pm.
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