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Sunday School 9 a.m.
Morning Worship  10:30 a.m.
Evening Worship 6 p.m.

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Vacation Bible School begins July.

Do the Hard Things

My oldest daughter owns a red book with an eye-catching title.    I don’t know if she left it out by design where I could see it.   But I did see it. The young author wrote it to challenge his fellow teens to “Do the Hard Things”.    And it contains story after story of [...]

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True and False Guilt

There are two kinds of guilt which require two very different approaches to resolve.   I’ll take the easy one first. True guilt involves a real, specific offense against God or one’s neighbor.   It is where we violate the clear, enduring, outside-of-us standard of right and wrong–a law which God also implanted on everyone’s heart. [...]

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Primitive Religion

The Punishment-Reward worldview is deeply embedded in all of us.   As children, when we pleased our parents we were rewarded, and when we were naughty we were punished.    In movies with a classic ending, the good guys win and the bad guys are destroyed.   In the Old Testament, when Israel was obedient [...]

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The Power of Fathering

Father’s Day is maybe yesterday’s news, but fatherhood is every day’s news and every body’s issue. There’s an old Gypsy Proverb, “You have to dig deep to bury your father.”   Like it or not, our fathers leave a large footprint in our lives–for good or for ill.    Many of us carry “father wounds” which [...]

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Iran and Freedom

Seeing hundreds of thousands of people standing up to a tyrannical government uplifts all of us.    It resonates with our God-given love of freedom implanted in all our hearts. Whether it was the students in Tienanmen Square, or the German people taking sledge hammers to the Berlin Wall, or the street dancing in Soweto when [...]

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