Posts from December 2023

Weekly Update – December 28th, 2023 The end of a year is always a good time to reflect.  You might personally consider what went well or perhaps even what didn’t go well in your own life. It is good for us to do this as a church as well.  Therefore, what I want to do here is consider with you what the Lord did among us in 2023 and then praise him for the year that has gone by.  With…

Weekly Update – December 21st, 2023 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”  This is how the Bible starts the creation story.  Then we read that from chaos God brought order and out of darkness God created light.  Ultimately it was out of nothing that God brought forth something.  But as great and majestic as all of this is, God’s purposes in creation were much bigger than simply filling the earth with stuff.  In Genesis 1:26 God…

Weekly Update – December 14th, 2023 On Sunday, we took the Lord’s Supper together as a church.  We did so on the second week of November as well.  For years, our church, like many other Southern Baptist Churches, took the Lord’s Supper once a quarter.  We then moved it to once every other month.  But now, we are scheduled to take it monthly together.  Perhaps you are wondering why?  Why have we moved it to monthly, and then furthermore, does…

Weekly Update – December 7th, 202 Every year we collect an offering for international missions.  Most of you should be fairly familiar with it since this offering has been a part of our denomination since 1888.  What that means is that this offering is not a generational tradition started by an older generation or our parent’s generation, but instead it is a tradition that has been in our denomination and in our church since its early days.  But why is…