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There is 1 Enemy (POHFW)

Preparing our Hearts to Worship We have but 1 Enemy   In an effort to help you prepare for the October 9th, 2016, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on The Armor of God, I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is entitled, “There is 1 Enemy”. The main Scripture for the day is Ephesians 6:10-13. The other passages…

Who chose the 4 gospels?

Often we hear things like, “The church just chose the gospels it wanted, and left out competing ideas that didn’t mesh with what she wanted to tell people.”  The Da Vinci code was notorious for this type of undermining of the Biblical canon.  But some may wonder, why these 4 – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John – as opposed to the Gospel of Thomas and things like that.  Dr. Hill answers that for us in this 3 minute clip from…

Working our Direct Communication Muscles

  We all have muscles. Some of us have bigger muscles; and some of us have smaller muscles. I have often been envious of those with giant arms and thick chests. My body just didn’t seem to be able to grow muscles the same way other guys could. That is, until I started going to a gym that had a trainer who knew what to have me work on in order to strengthen those parts of my physique that were…

Bulletin – Week of October 2, 2016

We hope that no one in our midst feels like a stranger. Please know that you’re welcomed here in God’s house. Today we join with Christians around the world in celebrating Holy Communion. Message: A Spirit Filled Workplace Scripture: Eph. 6:10-13 Offering: General Fund Prayer Requests: This week we are asked to pray for Marion Martin, Dan and Tanya Obbink and their children, Lisa Oppenhuizen, Dale and Deloris Perry, Joe Pruitt, Debra Reamer and Mona Reardon. Suggestions for prayers would…

Loving those at the Office

Preparing our Hearts to Worship   In an effort to help you prepare for the October 2nd, 2016, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on Love and submission in the office, I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is entitled, “The Ethics of the Workplace”. The main Scripture for the day is Ephesians 6:5-9. The other passages are either…

Reclaiming the World for Christ

“What is needed is a new generation of Christian preachers, ethicists, politicians, economists, artists, musicians and parents to carry the Christian world-view into their realms of endeavor, aiming to see those realms more, rather than less, conforming to the will of Christ, and more, rather than less, pleasing to God. It falls to us today, who are the heirs of the Reformation world-view, to pursue the glory of God in every sphere of life, until, in Kuyper’s words, ‘God’s holy…