Well, we've come to the end of our 44-sermon series on The Gospel of Mark. I'm going to miss learning from Peter and John Mark. Hopefully, after having spent the last year immersed in their eyewitness accounts of the life of Christ, you will miss them too. We'll be finishing up with Mark 15:21-47 and the depiction of the crucifixion. However, it's pretty obvious that some...
Keep ReadingPastoral Letter for a Distributed Church August 22, 2020 Dear friends, It's been three weeks since my last letter (yeah for vacations) and I wanted to update you on some upcoming events and changes for this fall.We have been restarting our ministries in an incremental fashion this summer with good results. We have restarted the Nurseryduri...
Keep ReadingHave you ever made a promise to someone your spouse, your child, your best friend, a co-worker and then, without even thinking about it broke it? Perhaps you had forgotten you made this promise. Maybe you didn't remember the promise until after it was broken. Possibly you had to be reminded that you had made this promise. And it was made worse because the reminder came ...
Keep ReadingIt's hard to believe that we're 5 months into the pandemic and that we've been back at in-person worship for 10 weeks. It has felt like both a blur and an eternity. Through it all, the Lord has consistently shown Himself to be faithful to us. Praise God for the many ways we've had to rely on Him and for the many ways that we've seen Him be present in the midst of hard time...
Keep ReadingMark 14:27-42 Have you ever marveled at the unwise choices someone else has made? Have you ever found yourself wondering, "What in the world were they thinking? I would have never done that?" Then you suddenly realize that you do the same thing all the time. Or, have you ever felt certain your loyalty would empower you to do something hard or unpopular for someone else,...
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