The Messenger – January 2014

Christmas in the Heart

“I will put my love in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

Jeremiah 31:33 NIV

What does it mean to celebrate Christmas all year long? Are we talking about leaving the tree and decorations [...]

The Messenger – December 2013

From the Pastor’s Desk

For many of us Christmas is a time of hoping, of anticipation, of remembering. It’s a time of

dreams. I think of the familiar poem “Twas the Night before Christmas” where it says “visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.”

Often as I think about the dream, the hope, the [...]

The Messenger – November 2013

From the Pastor’s Desk

Philippians 1:3-5  “I thank my God upon every remembrance of you.  Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day of Jesus Christ.”

That is my exact feelings about our relationship in the last 9 years.  [...]

The Messenger – October 2013

From the Pastor’s Desk

“By this time you ought to be teachers yourselves, yet I find you need someone to sit down with you and go over the basics on God again, starting from square one- baby’s milk, when you should have been on solid food long ago! Milk is for beginners, [...]

The Messenger – September 2013

From the Pastor’s Desk

“Jesus bids us shine, with clear, pure light,Like a little candle burning in the night;In this world of darkness, we must shine,You in your small corner, and I in mine.       – Tabernacle Hymns, p. 256

This hymn made me remember a first grader saying a program in The Children’s Program [...]