Posts from May 2025

Weekly Update – May 29th, 2025  As you all know, Vacation Bible School is just around the corner.  Every summer our church has a week where we specifically focus on teaching the children of our church and the community the gospel of Jesus Christ.  This week always requires a lot of effort, resources and time.  Therefore, for the sake of simply doing something because we have always done it, I want to remind you, just as I do every year,…

Weekly Update – May 22nd, 2025  In Luke 9:51, we see an interesting phrase that will set out for us the rest of Jesus’ ministry on earth.  Luke says, “he (Jesus) set his face to go to Jerusalem.”  Now, on the surface of it, this may seem like Luke is only giving us the physical direction as to where Jesus is going.  He is now headed to Jerusalem.  In actuality though, I believe that Luke says this phrase with a…

Weekly Update – May 15th, 2025  As Christians, we are all called to a type of ministry.  There is no such thing as isolating ourselves from other believers, just as there is no such thing as inactivity when it comes to serving the Lord.  We are to be actively investing ourselves into the lives of others, younger and older, mature and immature, similar to us or different.  Ministry isn’t only a call to those who are paid or to those…

Weekly Update – May 8th, 2025  The Biblical command issued by Jesus throughout the gospels to those who would be his disciples is, “Follow Me.”  We saw this clearly last Sunday in Luke 9:23.  Here Jesus says, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” Now, every passage in the New Testament in some way or another gives us this command.  As we have seen so far in the…