PastoralLetterfrom Timo Sazo, July 16, 2021 Greetings, brothers and sisters! I hope you all are well and enjoying the summer season. I joined the church staff as a pastoral intern in March. In case you don't know, the purpose of an internship in our denomination is to give pastoral candidates an opportunity to observe, participate in, and reflect on a church's min...

Well, after that scintillating presentation on General Assembly last Sunday, we're back to our regular schedule. We'll be looking at Revelation 19:11-21 during Sunday School and then during the worship service, we'll be continuing our summer sermon series on the One Another commands of the New Testament. This week, we're looking at 1 Corinthians 12:21-26, with special att...

Well, since so many of you have asked about the PCA's 48th General Assembly in St. Louis, I think it would be wise if I addressed it soon. So I'm going to cover all the excitement this Sunday during Sunday School. I'll give you the scoop on GA, the BCO, the RAO, the SJC, the OC, the AC, what's an overture?, and maybe even some RONR for good measure (Presbyterians sure love...

I'm writing this a week in advance because, by the time you read it, I'll be at the PCA's 48th General Assembly in St. Louis.This year promises lots of controversy in the form of several overtures (a motion, or a request for action, coming from one of our 88 presbyteries) about sexuality and race and I have theburdenprivilege of serving on the Overtures Committee!So.Much.F...

PastoralLetterfor a Faithful Church June 11, 2021 Dear friends, Last week I sent you a schedule of how we're going to further reopen the church, noting that we were going to do it incrementally over several months.We've received a number of comments and concerns over this plan.We've had people who think we should continue social distancing and mask requirements; ot...

This week, we are starting a new sermon series on the One Another commands of the New Testament. I can't think of a more needed, and more timely, set of Biblical commands for us in this day and age. As I shared in my commencement address at RTS, DC last month, the past year has worn us all out with unending controversy. There have been constant debates over the treatment ...

Pastoral Letter for a Faithful Church June 4, 2021 Dear friends, Well, last month I wrote and promised to let you know when we would be able to make some adjustments to our Sunday schedule. Finally! This is that letter. We have spent some time figuring out how best to "finish" reopening and we're going to do it incrementally as we move through the summer. Al...

It seems like we just started going through the Book of Joshua and now we're coming to the end of the book. Frank will preach on Joshua 23 next week, and I'll preach on Joshua 24 this week (yes, we switched. It's okay, I promise). So, this week we'll be looking at "The Promise of Worship," what it has to do with the covenant, why we need to be regularly reminded of it, w...

Wow! It seems like May is just flying by and it will soon be over. So here's a few things to be praying for. This weekend is our annual Officer's Retreat (which got canceled last year). We'll be hearing from Kirk Blankenship, Pastor of Pilgrim PCA in Martinsburg, WV. He'll be sharing on the implications of the Resurrection for our lives today. Pray that this proves to be a...

Pastoral Letter for a Faithful Church May 15, 2021 Dear friends, Exactly one year ago today I wrote my 10th Pastoral Letter of the pandemic to announce that we were going to resume in-person worship in June (of 2020). At that time, I pleaded with everyone to extend grace to each other even as we are, Philippians 1:27b, "standing firm in one spirit, with...