Ash Wednesday reminds us that we are no longer the perfect creations that God placed into the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve chose to be less than perfect. They chose to sin. And as a result, from dust were they created and to dust (or ash) they would return. Like Adam and Eve, we Read More
Distorted Viewpoint: My Identity is based on my Achievements Better Viewpoint: Our Identity is a gift of God that is centered on grace Read More
1 John 4:17-21 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love Read More
Distorted Viewpoint: God is a Disappointed Observer Better Viewpoint: God is a loving Father who seeks after us, rejoices over us, and forgives us Read More
March 29 @ 9 am – Palm Sunday Worship Service & Easter Cantata April 2 @ 7 pm – Maundy Thursday Worship Service April 3 @ 7:30 pm – Good Friday Worship Service April 5 – Easter Sunday! Wednesdays Feb 18 @ 7 pm – Ash Wednesday Service Feb 25 @ 6 pm – Lenten Meal provided by the Music Read More
1 John 4:11-16 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of Read More
Distorted Viewpoint: Grace is Based on My Performance Better Viewpoint: God’s love & grace are unconditional, free gifts through faith in Christ and God’s promises Read More
1 John 4:7-10 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we Read More
2 Corinthians 9:6-15 The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things Read More
1 Chronicles 29:10-22 Therefore David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: “Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever. Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth Read More
