Posts from January 2024

Weekly Update – January 25th, 2023 On Sunday morning, Clint Blankenship reminded us why it is we pray the way we do in our morning services.  We pray together as a church with intentionality, as we come before God unified as one, following the pattern given to us in the scriptures.  As we pray, we have four prayers during our service.  These prayers are meant to give us the full breadth of prayer before the Lord, but they are also…

Weekly Update – January 18th, 2023 Just like that, we are now in the third week of January. Many of us set goals and in our minds, we perhaps proclaimed that this was going to be the best year yet.  But maybe you are like me as I look back at the last few weeks and you notice that the goals you set for this year, are not really being accomplished.  Personally, I have already found myself behind on my…

Weekly Update – January 11th, 2023 Last Sunday we took time to look at 1 Peter 2:9-12.  Here we saw that because of our calling from God to himself through Jesus Christ, we have been rescued from darkness (2:9) to become his people who have now received mercy (2:10).  Therefore, we are now a people who are to proclaim (2:9) and display (2:12) the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ. We said that our ambition as God’s people…

Weekly Update – January 4th, 2023 The New Year always brings with it a sense of excitement. Not because it is in the dead of winter or because the Christmas season is over. No, the excitement comes with an opportunity of sorts to begin again. One way to begin the year is with a set of goals, of which I will recommend some for us as a church this Sunday.  But another way to begin a new year is to…