Our Sunday service this Memorial Day weekend will be, as always, about worshipping God, enjoying the fellowship of believers and growing as disciples of Jesus Christ. As part of these endeavors, we will pray especially for our military servicemen and women, give thanks to God for the blessings he has provided through their sacrifices, and honor […]
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It is in the studying of Christ, as in the planting of a new discovered country; at first men sit down by the sea-side, upon the skirts and borders of the land; and there they dwell, but by degrees they search farther and farther into the heart of the country. Ah, the best of us
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This is a warning from a pastor to the church: THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH TO AVOID. You may think that this contradicts the second most important command to love your neighbor as yourself. But it doesn’t. Sometimes service to others demands that we avoid certain people. In Romans 16:17, Paul writes, “I appeal
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(This was a Mother’s Day sermon.) This Mother’s Day, I want to share a foundational word from Deuteronomy 6:4-9. Let’s read it, and then I’ll point out to you a truth, a command and an application. 4“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.5You shall love the Lord your God with all
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By Dawn Rutan I’ll admit it—I hear voices. I have conversations in my head, sometimes with real people and sometimes imaginary. This week I was imagining sitting next to Brennan Manning on an airplane. That scenario is an impossibility since this messenger of Love passed away last month, which I just learned today. I was
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By Dawn Rutan I think we’d all agree that there are things that can distract us from the experience of worship. Thinking specifically of Sunday mornings, we may get distracted by crying babies, technical difficulties, music styles, worries from the week past or the week to come, etc. When we speak of worship leaders, we
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