Our All Church Prayer – all three congregations – is tonight, Friday, August 20, 2021, 7:30 p.m. on Zoom. We want to pray kingdom prayers. Jesus taught us: “This, then, is how you should pray . . . your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:9-10). We…

What started as a chance conversation is now happening – distributing non-perishable food and others items as a good neighbor! Blessing our community. Showing God’s love. All three congregations engaged. Our T-shirt motto: love God & others. • We need people setting up at 9:00AM – three tables, two canopies, carrying bags to the first…

In Psalm 139, after David reflects on God’s omniscience, God knows everything . . . God’s omnipresence, God is everywhere . . . God’s omnipotence, God can do anything – he considers God’s omni-righteousness, God is holy. “If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty! They speak of…

Actually, God cannot do many things. God cannot lie. God cannot break his promises. God cannot be tempted with evil. God cannot tempt people. God cannot learn. God cannot change. God cannot sin. God cannot fail. God cannot save those who refuse to obey him. God cannot make you love him. When we ask for…

Where do we begin in answering the question, “Where is God?” God manifests his presence in particular places and situations. But he himself is present everywhere at the same time. In the Old Testament, God met with his people in particular places – in a bright cloud of glory, at the tent in the wilderness,…

Google states, “In a fraction of a second, Google’s Search algorithms sort through hundreds of billions of webpages in our Search index to find the most relevant, useful results for what you’re looking for.” David wrote: “You have searched me, LORD, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you…

The famous Swiss theologian Karl Barth was asked by a student during a seminar in United States, “Dr. Barth, what is the most profound thing you have ever learned in your study of theology?” Barth thought for a moment and then replied with the words of a children’s song: “Jesus loves me, this I know,…

Abandoned by friends, without their support, as the apostle Paul sat all alone in prison, the Lord himself stood by him and gave him inner strength. He tells us further: “And I was delivered from the lion’s mouth” (2 Timothy 4:17). Some see this as a metaphor for evil people like the Emperor Nero whose…

Ben E. King expressed the hopes of all lonely hearts as he sang: “When the night has come, and the land is dark, and the moon is the only light we’ll see. No I won’t be afraid, oh I won’t be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.” When no friend stood…

Someone prayed, “Dear Lord, help us to realize that some of our greatest times of devotion to you come when we are the loneliest. Amen.” At the end of the apostle Paul’s life and ministry, imprisoned in Rome for the second time, realizing he would not be released, soon facing death as a martyr, Paul…