Posts from January 2022

Weekly Update – January 27th, 2022 Is there value in praying together?  Hopefully you would respond with a resounding, YES! That is why we keep our prayer list up to date, or we take prayer requests during Sunday school, right?  We pray before meals together, before meetings at church, and before various other events as well.  Therefore it should be a given that we would also pray together during our Sunday morning services.  But praying multiple times in our service? …

Weekly Update – January 20th, 2022 After two years, we are going to pick back up in our study through 1st and 2nd Timothy.  As we do, what we will once again see is that there is a foundational truth that we must be crystal clear on.  That truth is the gospel message. The problem that the apostle Paul is addressing as he writes to his “child in the faith” (1:2) is that a distraction away from truth, leads to…

Weekly Update – January 13th, 2022 Last week we looked at 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13 in our worship service.  In this passage, verse 6-7 says this: “But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you – for this reason, brothers, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted…

Weekly Update – January 6th, 2022 One of the things that has encouraged me over the course of my Christian life is reading biographies of Christians who have gone before us. Hebrews 12:1 says, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.” Though this passage is referring back to Hebrews…