Tomorrow, as we go into the New Year, I want to talk about the critical topic of trusting God in everything and with everything. I believe this is a topic that will help all of us orient our minds and hearts to God at the beginning of 2023 and hopefully into the rest of the year.

If you are able, please also come back Sunday Evening as I will guide everyone through some reflection questions as we intentionally look back at 2022 and look forward to 2023. During the reflection, there will also be some time for personal prayer as we lift up our hearts to God. 

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Merry Christmas! I hope and trust that you all have a wonderful Christmas Eve. I'm anticipating a great time at my place seeing everyone, sharing laughs, and having a good time with fellowship.

I know tomorrow is Christmas day and can be a busy day for some of you as you host family at your place and enjoy each other's company over a meal. With that said, I encourage you all to spend the morning in corporate worship with the church. Not because "we have to." But instead because the best thing we can do above time with family and the fellowship we will have is to worship our great Savior and praise Him for humbling himself down to earth, being born of a virgin, with the purpose of fulfilling the Father's plan that we may all be saved.

As a reminder, there will be no ABF hour and no Sunday Evening service tomorrow. We will have our worship service at 10:30am.

Please come and join us for worship tomorrow as we talk about the final attribute, peace. Peace is perhaps the one attribute that many in the world sort of get right in regard to the idea of peace. However, the world misses the most critical piece to peace, which is peace with God. From our peace with God flows many other kinds of peace we will have in this life. Join us tomorrow and let's explore the biblical idea of peace with God and the other kinds of peace we get because of our peace with God.

If you are able please come back Sunday evening and join us for our Christmas meditation program. This will be a great time for quieting our hearts before God in song and meditation, as we think and reflect on Jesus, our Immanuel, our God who is with us. Looking forward to seeing and worshipping with you all.

Tomorrow we will take a look at a Biblical understanding of joy. Often joy is associated with feelings of happiness, but is joy more than simply happiness? Is there such a thing as having joy with eternal value? Come out tomorrow to corporately worship with each other and hear about what the Bible has to say about joy.

Please also come back tomorrow evening as we get to enjoy the Children's Christmas program. The kids and everyone involved have been putting in a lot of work and I am sure all will be blessed by it.

Please join us tomorrow as we start a Christmas series that will end on Christmas Sunday. Three attributes that are seen at a higher volume during Christmas are love, joy, and peace. These three attributes are connected with the birth of Christ and rightly so! We will take each attribute and look at it from a biblical perspective. We will look at the birth of Christ with fresh eyes and a heart of worship. Come join us as we talk about love first!

If you are able, please come back Sunday evening as I finish up the series, "What does it mean to love God?" Specifically, we will talk about what loving God looks like and how we can grow in it.

Pastor Rowley will be preaching for us tomorrow. His message will lay the foundation for understanding an essential "mystery" revealed by Paul in the New Testament. This mystery holds the key to understanding God's prophetic plan for the ages and also the key to all victorious fruitful living that will bring eternal rewards. If you are able please come back for Sunday Evening service as I continue the series on "What does it mean to love God?"

Tomorrow we will have Dan Olson, one of our missionaries in town, and he will be bringing us the word of God tomorrow morning. I am sure your hearts will be blessed by what God has placed on his heart.

Please also take the opportunity tomorrow to encourage him and his family as well as pray for them. If you are able please come back Sunday evening. I will be starting a short series on, "What does it mean to love God?" We are all told by both Scripture and preachers to love God. Loving God is to be a daily act that we constantly do, but what does that really mean? What does it look like to love God on a daily basis?

I hope everyone has enjoyed the Bible conference so far. Dr. McGinniss has been able to give some profound truth regarding pain and suffering and how we as Christians should understand it properly. If you have not been able to catch the messages please look for them online. It’s worth the watch!

Please join us for corporate worship tomorrow as we continue our study in Hebrews. Tomorrow our passage gets into specifics about what Jesus' sacrifice has accomplished with regard to our access to the Father. It is such a wonderful truth that should encourage our hearts to know we do have free access to the Father and our eternal redemption leads us to serve our living God!

Tomorrow night, Pastor Rowley will be talking about the Perfect (Mature) Christian and how the goal is that he or she would be capable of being placed in any situation with the resources we have available as Christians and would handle them in a way that is appropriate and brings God glory. We will see good applications for child training and regular Christian living.

Tomorrow we are continuing our study in Hebrews. We are finally in Chapter 8, which is the main point of what all of Chapter 7 is trying to say. Essentially, the author tells us the New Covenant is better than the Old Covenant. It is better because Jesus is better. This truth will help us realize some principles and practical applications with how we see our own lives when we compare what the world has to offer and what Jesus has to offer.

Please come back Sunday evening. Pr. Rowley is beginning a series called "God's Portrait of the Perfect Man". God has a goal for each of us to move toward in this life. A good verse to memorize along with this series is Ephesians 4:13 and/or Matthew 5:48. Paul's goal in ministry was to "present every man perfect [mature, complete] in Christ. We should have this same desire for ourselves, our families, and our disciples.

Dear TBC Family and Friends,

Tomorrow we will continue our study in Hebrews and further our understanding of Jesus as a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. As we look more closely at Jesus as high priest, I trust the hope found in Christ will encourage all of us to live all the days of our lives for him.

Sunday evening Randy Prahl, the first assistant pastor of TBC and the person who was in charge of building our first buildings, will be with us. He and Pastor Rowley are planning to share a few clear and exciting ways they saw God's hand in founding of the church and in the building of our the first building.

Please join us for corporate worship tomorrow as we continue our study in Hebrews. We are finally at chapter 7 where we can chew on the solid food on the teaching of Melchizedek. If you have ever wondered about Melchizedek and how he fits in with Jesus, make sure to join us tomorrow to learn about it and be edified!

If you are able, please also come back and join us on Sunday Evening. Pastor Rowley will be continuing his Jehosaphat series as he teaches us the wisdom that we can learn from the life of Jehosaphat. There has already been a lot of great application for us to consider applying in our lives. I am sure he will add to that great list tomorrow.

I hope that you all will be able to make it out to corporate worship tomorrow. We will be continuing our study in Hebrews, and we will see from Scripture our life's best hope. In particular, we will see the hope that we all have in the promises of God because God is a God who cannot lie. I hope and pray that the message will be an encouragement to you all.

Please, if you are able, return Sunday evening to continue to learn from the life of Jehosaphat. Pastor Rowley has been able to show us great truths and practical applications from the life of Jehosaphat. I know for myself, it is always interesting and profound how Pastor Rowley expounds the OT Scripture. Looking forward to worshipping with you all tomorrow.

Dear TBC Family and Friends,

Tomorrow we will be taking a short break from Hebrews to discuss the topic of deacon nominations. It's that time of year when we vote on new deacons and have some of our current deacons rotate off. I want to take the time tomorrow to teach on what the Bible says about deacons and also to talk about our process this year as there will be slight differences from the years past. Please come out, worship with your fellow brothers and sisters in Christ and hear about our deacon nomination and voting process.

Sunday evening Pastor Rowley will be continuing his Jehoshaphat series. Jehoshaphat was a great king but had one primary flaw that ruined his family and hurt the nation for many years after he almost died and nearly got himself killed. God sent a prophet to teach and warn him with a searching question. The same question can help us avoid many heartaches for us, our families, our church and even our nation. Come Sunday evening to learn with Jehoshaphat. Memorize 2 Chronicles 19:2 to get the most out of the message. Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!

Tomorrow we will be walking through one of the most debated passages in Hebrews. It will get quite theological, but there is some good application in the midst of the solid food we will be feasting on tomorrow.

Please also come back Sunday evening as Pastor Rowley continues his study on Jehosaphat. He will be looking Jehoshaphat's friendship with Ahab, one of the worst people in the Bible. Lessons include the danger of wrong friends, manipulative people, politically correct religion and God's kind grace.