Will You Go?

“When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples 2 and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden; untie it and bring it. 3 If…

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Pizza & Movie Night!

When: Saturday, April 18th Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm Where: Fellowship Hall Who Can Attend: ANYONE! Cost: FREE! Movie: Despicable Me 2 Join us for pizza and the wonderful family comedy (nominated for two Oscars!), Despicable Me 2. “When Gru, the world’s most super-bad turned super-dad has been recruited by a team of officials to…

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A picture of Doug Scalise in a sweater

A Centurion – Finding God in Someone You Don’t Expect

For the last month in worship we’ve been talking about Finding God in Unexpected Places and those sermons were about finding God in undesirable circumstances like when we’ve been mistreated or can’t sleep, when our life gets turned upside down and we have to get used to a “new normal” or when we can’t get…

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A Little Girl and a Woman – When You Can’t Get Well

How do you feel about a trip to the doctor’s office? For example, do you look forward to it because you think it will help you live a healthy lifestyle or to feel better? Do you dread it because you’re afraid of what you might hear and what it might cost? Would you rather cope…

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A Prayer for Healing

Creator God you are the giver of life and you know me better than I know myself. You know where I am hurting or broken physically, spiritually, and emotionally. Pour your power out in me and through me that I may be healed, renewed, and strengthened. Grant me grace to accept the changes that come to all people as we move…

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Jeremiah – Seeking the Welfare of the Place You Live

Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be a person in the Bible? What would it have been like to be someone like Hagar, Samuel, Isaiah, John, Mary, Elizabeth, or Paul? It might be an amazing experience, but I know I wouldn’t want to have been Jeremiah. He had a tough…

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Samuel – When You Can’t Sleep

Many of the characters we encounter in the pages of the Bible, we see for a single moment, or only at one period in their life. Samuel is that rare person we learn about from before he is born, to childhood and adulthood to the very end of his life. In the book that bears…

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Hagar – When You’ve Been Mistreated

For the next five weeks we’re doing a series in worship and in small groups on Finding God in Unexpected Places. There are some places we kind of expect to find God – like in a worship service, reading the Bible, in our personal devotional time, when we’re serving others for God’s glory and to…

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The Better Life of Peace

Our guest preacher this week is Rev. Steve Youd. Steve holds degrees from both Gordon College and Yale University, the latter awarding him the Mersick Preaching Prize. Steve has served as Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hanson, Massachusetts – – a congregation that engaged dozens of their people in hands-on mission to such…

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