Tag: test

• So Many Blessings, So Little Time

  1 John 3:17  But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? Why do good things happen to people?  That’s not the usual question, is it?  Usually we ask the opposite – why do bad things happen…

  Pastor John

  December 5, 2016

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• Test Your Commitment

  In today’s world we lament a lack of commitment.  We applaud and show excitement when people last long in positions.  Why? because we don’t see it very often!  We lament that people just can’t stay committed.  We complain.  Yet, when talking about encouraging commitment to God’s church we get gun shy about it.  We say…

  Pastor John

  July 20, 2015

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• When God tells you something

  A funny thing happened to me since our church had Vacation Bible School.  VBS was great.  We saw 36 kids during the week and had another 15 student workers who helped out.  We had buckets of fun.  We learned about Daniel.  We discovered what it means to trust Jesus with all of our life.  Our…

  Pastor John

  July 6, 2015

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