Pastor’s Message: Dec. 13, 2021
Another school shooting a couple of weeks ago, this time in Oxford, Michigan. Hoax threats made at hundreds of schools across the nation last week. Devastating tornadoes sweep across multiple states this past December weekend destroying and uprooting lives. These are reminders that while the celebration of the Advent and Christmas seasons persist, life on earth with...
Giving Tree for Genesis Women’s Shelter
We are collecting coats, hats, gloves, and socks to send to Genesis Women’s Shelter through the month of December. Please bring your donations to the Giving Tree in our main hallway.
Pastor’s Message: Dec. 6, 2021
You will recall we held a pair of all church meetings earlier this year to discuss what was then a proposed transition to a single board model of local church administration. After that discussion, the transition was approved unanimously at our annual Charge Conference on October 18. Everyone present was allowed to vote as the Charge Conference members...
Pastor’s Message: Bible Year 2022
Why The Bible Year in 2022? That’s a good question. First, I would encourage you to consider the means of grace, the promised means that, when practiced, we are assured to receive God’s prevenient, justifying, and sanctifying grace. Ever since the invention of the printing press, searching the scriptures has become a more prominent means...
Pastor’s Message: Nov. 22, 2021
Psalm 100:1-5 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness!Come into his presence with singing! Know that the Lord, he is God!It is he who made us, and we are his;we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving,and his courts with...
Did You Know? – Leonardo Haro
Once again, God has blessed us with a staff member to walk with us in our ministry of discipleship. Leonardo (Leo) Haro joined our staff in September as our Family Life and Minister of Community Involvement. Leo is married and has two daughters, ages 11 and 14. He presently lives in Grand Prairie but will...
Pastor’s Message: Nov. 8, 2021
On Sunday, October 17, we considered what faith and life look like when we recognize that sacrifices of atonement, interpreted in light of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice, were acts done under the paradigm of restitution rather than retribution. In the newsletter that following week, we considered what that suggests to us concerning sin post-faith. Life after faith is more than...
Pastor’s Message: Oct. 18th, 2021
In worship yesterday, we discussed the focus of sacrifices of atonement being restitution rather than retribution. In other words, the sacrifices were offered as gifts to right the wrongs committed toward God rather than a result of a wrathful God needing to exact revenge but finding a substitute to receive that revenge rather than the...