What’s Wrong with Doing What’s Right (In My Own Eyes)

This week in worship, Pastor Doug concludes the series “Lessons from Leaders from the Book of Judges” by exploring the question “What’s Wrong with Doing What’s Right (In My Own Eyes)?” and the consequences for the Israelites when they failed to recognize God as Israel’s King. It shows us what happens to us when we…

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If A Good Tree Won’t Lead, A Bad Tree Always Will

This week in worship, Pastor Doug continues the Lessons from Leaders from the Book of Judges series sharing about Gideon’s son Abimelech and sharing about the kind of leaders we should strive to be. Thank you for worshiping with us. If you would like to give toward the work we are doing to share God’s…

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Remember It’s Not About You

This week in worship, Pastor Doug continues the Lessons from Leaders from the Book of Judges series sharing about Gideon, reminding us that God can use and work through our weaknesses and limitations. Thank you for worshiping with us. If you would like to give toward the work we are doing to share God’s mission…

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God’s Faithfulness to Flawed People

This week in worship, Pastor David Pranga kicks off our new worship series “Lessons from Leaders: from the Book of Judges” by sharing about the background that led up to this time of Judges and “God’s Faithfulness to Flawed People.” The short video included in worship about Judges comes from The Bible Project: https://youtu.be/kOYy8iCfIJ4 Thank…

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Where is Jesus Leading You?

This Sunday, we’ll be celebrating World Communion Sunday and we’ll begin sharing about the World Mission Offering which supports the work of our ABCUSA International Missionaries and Global Partners. We receive the WMO throughout the month of October. The passage International Ministries is focusing on this year is Mark 8.22-26 which is a story about…

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One Failure Doesn’t Mean You’re A Failure

Life is full of failures and disappointments so we might as well be prepared to accept them and learn from them, without being crushed by them. It’s important that we learn that One Failure Doesn’t Mean You’re a Failure. Click to listen: Click this link to get a printable version: One Failure Doesn’t Mean You’re…

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When We’ve Lost Someone We Love

The period in which the events of the Book of Ruth take place (the time in which the judges ruled) is among the worst in Israel’s history.  The Book of Ruth begins in this time of hardship and moves to great heartache. Click to listen: There’s no audio file this week, just video and PDF.…

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When You Run Out of Excuses

This morning, we are going to be talking about excuses. Every one of us has used an excuse from time to time. I found this article from Readers Digest, “Most Ridiculous Excuses for missing work.” Watch the video (above) Click to listen: Click this link to get a printable version: When You Run Out of…

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When You’ve Been Mistreated

When I was very young, many of the first books that were read to me and that I could read were Bible stories published by Arch Books. They were simplified versions of classic Bible stories with vivid illustrations. I really liked them. It was through one of those books that I first heard the story…

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