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…
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…
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…
Let’s begin, reading from The Message, the book of James, Chapter 3, starting at verse 3. 3-5 A bit in the mouth of a horse controls the whole horse. A small rudder on a huge ship in the hands of a skilled captain sets a course in the face of the strongest winds. A word…
We don’t know much about the prophet Habakkuk, not even his father’s name, but we know he likely spoke during the height of Babylonian power (608-598 B.C.) and that he asked hard, searching questions. Looking at his homeland of Judah, observing the violence and injustice on every hand, he cries out to God with some…
Have you ever benefited from the intervention of a stranger or have you ever come to the aid of a person you didn’t know? What was that experience like? I’ve benefited from the intervention of a stranger when I got a flat tire on a cold winter day and was incredibly grateful for the assistance….
Amos 5:14-15, 21-24, “Seek good and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, just as you have said. Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the…
If your family is anything like my family, there was great anticipation for Christmas. As a young child, it seemed like Christmas could not come soon enough. It seemed like it took forever for Dec 25 to come. Days without school, no homework or tests to study for. Plenty of good food (turkey or ham,…
12.24.14 Christmas Eve Service; Pastor Douglas Scalise Opening Prayer: O God of love, you have brought us together tonight and blessed us with your very self and in so many other ways. Open our eyes to the light of Christ which glows in the darkness of a world engulfed in violence, anger, misunderstanding, pain and…