On Sundays, we meet for Bible study at 9:30am. Worship service begins at 10:30am. On the second and fourth Sundays of the month, we have lunch together followed by a topical discipleship study. Easter Sunday Schedule: Sunrise Service @ 6:30a, followed by breakfast and Morning Worship @ 9:30a.
As time permits, meditations from the Scriptures will be posted here in the blog for your encouragement in God.
There are those among us who desire to love God with their whole heart and find no reason to hope in themselves or in this world. They find their chasing of fleshly desires and the opinions of other people to be bondage and not freedom. To be sure, they have doubts. They have hard questions
How often we try to talk ourselves into having hope based on ourselves… “Surely God must see my earnestness. I’m an improvement on my former self and definitely not as bad as I could be. And there are all those times that I did nice things instead of what I might otherwise have done. God
Last time we considered from Psalm 62 some the things that David mentioned as faulty alternatives to seeking God for refuge and how that God is indeed the answer to noisy, anxious waiting. This time we’ll meditate on the things that are part of waiting in silence. So, what is silence? Is it absolute? Is
In the text of this week’s sermon, Psalm 62, David wrote twice of “waiting in silence.” “For God alone my soul waits in silence” (verse 1, ESV)“For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence” (verse 5, ESV) This silent waiting is such a key part of Psalm 62, we would do well to understand
The exaltation of man is a dangerous thing. Of course, it all seems to make sense at the time. Great orators and charismatic leaders move minds and inflame passions. Civic pride swells under strong leadership. People sing the praises of one who promises deliverance. On the other side, there are those who are exalted in
This past weekend, Pastor Mike led us in worship from Psalm 46 which includes a statement attributed to God Himself which is repeated with enlargement: “I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” (v 10) Note the boldness of these claims! There is no hint of contingency in them.
There’s a viral pandemic in progress as this first meditation is being written. By now, it’s just about all that’s on anyone’s mind. There is real danger out there. But with the widespread danger to our health, there lurks another danger that is more significant and is of greater consequence – that we would forget
A rich man approaches Jesus asking how to receive eternal life. Yet he already has his own answer in mind – works and riches. Jesus shows him how neither of these things will suffice for salvation. The text is from Luke 18:18-30.
The disciples around Jesus felt an obligation to keep him “on task” – no need to waste his time with little children running around. Yet Jesus sees these little ones differently from them, and encourages them to come. Pastor Michael Rattin considers the humility on display in Luke 18:15-17.
A prideful Pharisee who thinks himself already righteous enters a temple and leaves in his sin. A tax collector, recognizing his sin, enters the temple and leaves justified. The deciding factor is simple: humility. Pastor Michael Rattin speaks on Luke 18:9-14.
