Posts from November 2022

Weekly Update – November 24th, 2022 Every year churches all around the world take time out of their normal schedule and celebrate the season of Advent.  Advent means “coming” and it is designed to prepare us for the celebration of Christmas.  As we look forward to this celebration, let us remember that it is more than gifts, lights and food.  It is a time for us to remember the first coming of our savior while also longing for his second…

Weekly Update – November 17th, 2022 What does it mean to be born again?  This phrase garnered a lot of attention back in 1976 when President Jimmy Carter officially declared that he was a “born again” Christian.  Being “born again” then became almost a sort of add on to the faith.  People began to proclaim that they were not only Christians but that they were “born again” Christians, as if there is a difference.   Even still, the use of the…

Weekly Update – November 10th, 2022 In Ephesians 1:15-16, the apostle Paul says that he does not cease from giving thanks in his prayers for the Ephesians.  The reason for his thanks is because of the Ephesians’ “faith in the Lord Jesus” and their “love toward the saints.”  Now, these two phrases about the Ephesians’ faith and their love, they are necessarily connected.  The reason why I said that is because within the church, there can be no display of…

Weekly Update – November 3rd, 2022 It is that time again.  It comes around every two years.  That’s right – it is election time.  Every two years it seems as though the stakes are higher, the parties are more divided and the nation is in peril.  Now I don’t want to downplay this election, there are clearly multiple ideologies being promoted that will take our nation in one direction or the other.  But I do want to communicate that despite…