Posts from November 2025

Weekly Update – November 20th, 2025  By God’s grace, we have new faces walk through our doors on a regular basis. Some are repeat guests, and others try for a Sunday and then we may see them again in the future, but either way, our church always has a number of new people come through its doors.  In the New Testament we see a command given to Christians to show hospitality towards others.  Hospitality literally means “welcoming strangers.”  It is…

Weekly Update – November 13th, 2025  In Luke 11:1, one of his disciples come to Jesus and says, “Lord, teach us to pray.” Perhaps there was some confusion over what prayer was meant to accomplish or look like. That is not too uncommon among Christians presently either. The common trend is either we don’t pray, or we try to pray for everything we can think of in 3 or 4 minutes. What results then is the feeling of praying the same…

Weekly Update – November 6th, 2025  Last week we had the privilege of singing “A Mighty Fortress is Our God.”  This hymn, written by Martin Luther, was likely a testimony of his own life as he wrote, “the ancient foe who doth seek to work us woe, with his craft and power are great, (while) armed with cruel hate.” This hymn, as well as the many others that Luther wrote, not only communicate the reality of spiritual warfare present in…