Posts with the tag “faith”

Sermon Quick Summary Thanksgiving and Christmas can be a challenging time calorie counting, with disagreements and tension when everyone is together. God designed thanksgiving to be a central part of...  Read More

Change from summer to autumn in created nature and change in our lives brings the next chapter in God’s unfolding story. In the season for the next chapter of changes, we turn the page and begin the n...  Read More

Sermon Quick Summary The scripture text for today is from John 18:1-11 (Section 5.42 of our booklet on the Life and Teachings of Jesus of Nazareth). We will be looking at the story of Joe as an exam...  Read More

Sermon Quick Summary The scripture text for today is from John 9:35-41 (ESV). In our scripture sermon text, Jesus taught about overcoming spiritual blindness with eyes of faith. Our natur...  Read More

Sermon Quick Summary We are continuing our miniseries, “The Divine Story of Jesus and You.” The scripture text for today is from John Chapter 2, which is Section 2.8 in your booklet, available for fr...  Read More

Sermon Quick Summary Today graduates, family and friends, and this church family celebrate graduations. Graduations are both an ending of a chapter in our life journey and a beginning of a new path. ...  Read More

We are continuing our mini-series, “Rise and Rebuild” based on the model of Nehemiah rebuilding. As followers of Christ, we are the hands and feet of God. What bothers you to the point of saying, “Som...  Read More

This message begins a mini-series titled “Anticipating Miracles.” Do you believe in miracles? This was the question yelled by sports broadcaster Al Michaels at the 1980 Olympics when the underdog Amer...  Read More

We know we have the power of the almighty God behind us, but what are we doing on our part to be prepared for the struggles in our life journey? However, we often go into a life journey battle feeling...  Read More

In this message, we are asking God to speak to our hearts from the thought, “Future Faith.” Faith in God’s revelations is communicated to us and touches our whole lives – our past, our present, and o...  Read More

In your life’s journey, are you going through a period of transition? For the past few months, Minister Paula Fuller has been going through a time of transition. She just completed 18 years of minis...  Read More

Today is Baccalaureate Sunday. We celebrate the great work God is doing in the lives of our graduates and mark this milestone as they embark on a new chapter in their life’s journey. As we remember th...  Read More

In this message, we close our sermon series on the Gift of Darkness, by exploring the darkness of doubt and deconstructing our faith. Doubt is honestly asking tough questions. In the deconstruction of...  Read More

We continue our sermon series on The Gift of Darkness. In this message, we will consider the gift of darkness when God seems silent. Earlier in this sermon series we noted that God is as comfortable ...  Read More

As we continue our sermon series on The Gift of Darkness, this message explores the impact of trauma in our lives. Everyone has a trauma history. It may be what we call a big T trauma, like a life thr...  Read More

In this message, we are exploring our life of faith in God. Is our life of faith in God something we can simply turn on and off? Let’s imagine you are in the late 1980’s and you are in bed watching te...  Read More

We experience wonder, awe, and mystery when God does something completely unexpected and then invites us to join what God is doing. We may feel unqualified, not prepared, a little scared. We may be e...  Read More

Our Director of Youth Ministry Pastor Ashley Watson continues our series on Life Reimagined with a personal story from her experience as a basketball trainer for an after-school program for elementar...  Read More

In this series on Life Reimagined, we have seen how our resources, relationships, and caring for the earth can accomplish God’s mission to reconcile, reunite, and restore the brokenness of this world....  Read More

Pastor Tammy, basking in the refrain from the song “You Deserve It”, asked us to think back over our lives and recall a time when our backs were against the wall, and God met us at the point of our de...  Read More

We continue our series on our journey of life reimagined as stewards of God. Recall our definition of stewardship: Stewardship is trusting in the promises of God, to deploy the resources of God, to ...  Read More

Last week, Pastor Tammy Long introduced a new sermon series entitled “Life Reimagined.” From the beginning of human existence on the planet, God has wanted us humans to be Stewards. To broaden our thi...  Read More

In recent history, our country has been in a polarized and divided state, with tension, anxiety, devastation, and brokenness. We need God’s Word of encouragement. Contemplating Father’s Day and Junete...  Read More