faith in God

What We Need Now Is Hope

What We Need Now Is Hope

This sermon is based on Hosea 6:1-11. You can also view each week's sermon/worship service on our YouTube Channel during the weeks we cannot meet due to Covid-19 restrictions: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5ncsq_QNvCv61bIwKUpP5A SERIES OVERVIEW: Hard times. They come; they go, and then they come back. It’s hardly fair, but that’s life in a fallen world. Let’s face it: if hard times were dollars, we would all be rich. There are all sorts of stories in the Bible about people in difficult situations, even impossible situations. The people are enslaved in Egypt. They are oppressed and beaten down by foreign tyrants. They are carried off into exile. They find themselves starving and exhausted, wandering in desert wastelands. And then there are the lepers, the possessed, the blind, the deaf and the lame, each agonizing in their own private anguish. And don’t forget the dying, the brokenhearted and the despondent. In every case, there is

What We Need Now Is Faith

This sermon is based on Daniel 3:13-28. You can also view each week's sermon/worship service on our YouTube Channel during the weeks we cannot meet due to Covid-19 restrictions: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5ncsq_QNvCv61bIwKUpP5A SERIES OVERVIEW: Hard times. They come; they go, and then they come back. It’s hardly fair, but that’s life in a fallen world. Let’s face it: if hard times were dollars, we would all be rich. There are all sorts of stories in the Bible about people in difficult situations, even impossible situations. The people are enslaved in Egypt. They are oppressed and beaten down by foreign tyrants. They are carried off into exile. They find themselves starving and exhausted, wandering in desert wastelands. And then there are the lepers, the possessed, the blind, the deaf and the lame, each agonizing in their own private anguish. And don’t forget the dying, the brokenhearted and the despondent. In every case, there is

Blurbs in the Blogs

Now many of you are thinking, “What a waste of time these blogs have been. All this talk about giving when everything we needed to know was already in the printed BLURBS we read in our programs each week.” And you know what? You are right. But familiarity breeds contempt. Many of us haven’t read the offering blurb since 2005, and some people simply skip that section of the program thinking that it must be advertising. But our whole philosophy of giving is articulated in these eight rotated blurbs. If you’ve never read them, here they are in one fell swoop. If you read them long ago, but have forgotten what they said, here they are in DDTS (Dolby Digital Theater Sound). If you always read them (or read them once a year), you get to take today off! You may pass go and collect two hundred “way to go’s.”