Announcements & Connections 10/14/23
Please join us for corporate worship tomorrow as we sing praises to Him and sit under His word. We will be continuing our series in Ecclesiastes and will be taking a look at Solomon's thoughts on wisdom when we live in a world that looks like it's all guided by chance. How are we supposed to respond? Is godly wisdom even something important to pursue if life is left to chance? Come tomorrow morning and find out!
Please also join us Sunday Evening as the Teens will be conducting the service. There will be a great time of singing and sharing by the teens. It is always an encouraging time to hear how God is working in their lives. Be an encouragement to them and be encouraged by them!
Announcements & Connections 10/7/23
Please join us for corporate worship as we sing praises to our great God and continue our series in Ecclesiastes. Last week we talked about how to have joy in life. Solomon pretty much talks about the same topic again in our passage this week, so we will see part 2 of how to have joy in life, the key being Christ-centered contentment.
If you are able, please also come back Sunday evening as Pastor Rowley teaches from a relatively obscure passage in Isaiah. We will learn how to obtain God's blessings and why others miss them.
Announcements & Connections 9/30/23
Please join us tomorrow as we worship our great God. We will be continuing in Ecclesiastes as Solomon returns his thoughts to the evil in the world where he sees the wicked prosper and the righteous suffer. Come and hear how Solomon resolves this issue with a proper understanding of God and the world He has given us.
Please also join us tomorrow evening as one of our missionaries, Todd Beaman, will be visiting us and sharing about his ministry. It will be great to reconnect with Todd and learn how we can better pray and support him and his family.
Announcements & Connections 9/23/23
Tomorrow Pastor Eli will be preaching, and I look forward to hearing what God has placed on his heart. Also, tomorrow we will be taking communion. Prepare your hearts even now as we worship God through the taking of the bread and the cup.
Please also come back Sunday evening as tomorrow will be the first meeting of both the Men's and Women's ministries. If there is any Sunday night that you can make it, I would encourage you all to come out tomorrow. There will be great opportunities to connect with people, share what's on your heart, and be encouraged from Scripture. We will also be having our fellowship night right after the Men's and Women's ministry which will also be a great time of connections and conversations.
Announcements & Connections 9/16/23
Please join us tomorrow for corporate worship as we lift up our voices to our great God and sit under His word. We will be continuing our series in Ecclesiastes and will be taking a look at some principles on how to deal with sin. Sin is a reality of our lives and without the proper perspective on how to approach our own sins and the sins of others, we could make matters worse. Join us tomorrow to see what Solomon has to say in Ecclesiastes!
If you are able, please also come back Sunday evening. Pastor Rowley will show us that after the Battle of Armageddon, Jesus sits upon a throne of judgment separating sheep from goats. As we observe His words to both the saved and lost we learn a lot about the heart of God. We also observe what He expects of believers who are facing opposition, persecution, government oppression and even death. I believe this passage can help us understand and know God better.
Announcements & Connections 9/9/23
We will be continuing our series in Ecclesiastes and our passage tomorrow will focus on some practical principles that we should have for our everyday lives. Please come out tomorrow to corporately worship together as a body of believers and to submit ourselves under the Word of God.
Please also join Sunday evening if you are able as we will have Sam and Heidi share about their trip to Nicaragua and what God is showing them for their lives.
Announcements & Connections 9/2/23
Come and join us for corporate worship tomorrow as we praise God for who He is and continue learning from His word in Ecclesiastes. We will be taking a look at how Solomon views the limitation of mankind and how that relates to our commitment to seeking wisdom from God.
If you are able, please also come back Sunday Evening as Pastor Rowley will be sharing about his trip to India and will talk about how the Christian life is like the Olympic games. The evening will be a great encouragement and an exhortation for us to keep on going to serve God and His people.
Announcements & Connections 8/26/23
Please join us for corporate worship tomorrow as we praise God together and continue our series in Ecclesiastes. Pastor Rowley will be preaching for us. It is such a joy to learn from him and all the wisdom that he has to share from the Bible. Bring your hearts and mind ready to receive what God will have for us tomorrow!Please also join us Sunday Evening as one of our deacons, Jay van Achterberg, will be preaching for us. The Lord has been working in his heart with the gospel of Luke.
Announcements & Connections 8/19/23
Please join us tomorrow for corporate worship as we seek to give praise to our God and learn from His Word. We will be continuing our study in Ecclesiastes and tomorrow Solomon will give his brief thoughts on government. Although brief, it is very informative and will help us practically to think about the government and make sure we put it in its proper place.
If you are able, please come back Sunday Evening as I hope to wrap up our study on "Applying Scripture in a Fallen World." I will be providing several examples to help us all see how application works in real-time. If we have time at the end, I'll open things up for some Q&A.
Announcements & Connections 8/12/23
Please join us tomorrow as we worship God through communion. Communion is a special time for us to reflect on the death and resurrection of Christ. It is a time for us to reflect on the gospel, its impact on our lives, and an opportunity for us to reinvigorate our desire for Christ. We will also be continuing our study in Ecclesiastes as we take a look at how we are to approach our relationship with God.
Please also come back Sunday evening as we will continue the series, "Applying Scripture in a Fallen World." We finally finished laying the foundation and tomorrow we will look at how a fallen world impacts our application of Scripture.
Announcements & Connections 8/5/23
Please join us for corporate worship tomorrow as we lift our voices to God and hear from His Word. We will be continuing our Ecclesiastes series. Solomon once again brings up the topic of wisdom. He will provide more insights and reflections for us to consider as we seek to be wise in Christ by fearing God and obeying all His commandments.
If you are able please join us Sunday Evening as well as I continue the series, Applying Scripture in a Fallen World. We got started laying some ground work last week. I hope to finish laying the ground work and provide some examples to help us understand the three categories of application and how the process works.
Announcements & Connection Opportunities 7/29/23
Please join us for corporate worship tomorrow. We will be continuing our Ecclesiastes series with Pastor Keith preaching! As always I look forward to seeing how God has been working in his heart and how he will encourage and exhort us to live for Christ.
Please come back Sunday evening if you are able as I will begin a new series: "Applying Scripture in a Fallen World." We will be taking a theological look at what application of Scripture actually means and then pragmatically seeing what that looks like in the real world. This will not be a simple "just apply Scripture," but rather a nuanced look at how we can apply Scripture, why so many people differ in their application, and ultimately how we should understand the bridge between the interpretation of Scripture and the application of Scripture.
Announcements & Connection Opportunities 7/22/23
Join us tomorrow for corporate worship, we will be continuing our series in Ecclesiastes and Solomon returns to the topic of work once again. This time, Solomon will challenge us to reflect on our approach to work on a practical level. Tomorrow we will see some principles that we should all have as we think about work.
Please also join us Sunday Evening as Pastor Rowley will have his final message on prophecy, which will focus on possibly the most exciting moment in human history -- the moment when Jesus Christ returns to fight the Battle of Armageddon -- "The Battle of that Great Day of God Almighty."
Announcements & Connection Links 7/15/23
Please join us for Sunday morning corporate worship. We will continue our study in Ecclesiastes as we talk about Solomon's next topic, oppression. Here the sobering message that God has for us on how we should broadly think about the oppression that happens in our world.
Please come back Sunday evening as we are going to look at an important prophetic passage called Daniel's 70 Week Prophecy which is a key to understanding the coming tribulation period. We will see that Antichrist is a deceiving liar like Satan and cannot be trusted. Jesus mentions this prophecy in Mt 24 when He refers to the "abomination of desolations spoken of by Daniel the prophet". There are many practical life applications we can glean from this key passage in the Bible.
Announcements & Connection Opportunities 7/8/23
Please join us for corporate worship tomorrow! We will have a special guest speaker, Justin Smith, who will be bringing us the word of God. I am excited to hear what God has placed in his heart and how Justin will challenge us through the Scriptures. Also, for all the VBS teachers and helpers, tomorrow after service is time for you all to decorate your rooms!
Please come back Sunday evening as Justin shares about his ministry and gives us an opportunity to ask some questions. Sunday Evening will not be live streamed so please try to make it out if you are able. After Sunday Evening we will make final preparations for VBS, so if you can stick around and help that would be wonderful.
Announcements & Connection Opportunities 7/1/23
Tomorrow's passage will focus on the idea of justice. Does God dispense divine justice? Solomon has a very interesting application to this question. Please come out and see what God's Word has to say.
Please also come back Sunday evening when Pastor Rowley will be looking at the Rapture of the Church. How, why, and when will God remove the Church from the earth? Are you ready?
Looking forward to worshipping with you tomorrow!
Announcements & connection Opportunities 6/24/23
Please join us tomorrow for corporate worship. Pastor Eli will be preaching. He will be continuing our study in Ecclesiastes. I look forward to hearing how he will challenge us with Scripture and encourage us to live and worship God in our lives.
Please also return Sunday Evening to hear Pastor Rowley. When a spiritually dead, sinful, lost person is saved they are placed into the Body of Christ -- the Church. Like an organ transplant, the Body's immune system would never accept them unless tremendous radical supernatural changes are made to that person before they are installed into Christ's Body. We have seen that this process was called a mystery and began as a complete surprise on the Day of Pentecost. The Church will end in a similar mysterious way. Sunday evening we will begin a two week series on Why, How, and When the miraculous Body of Christ will be removed from the world. Please come so you will be better able to know, defend and live Bible truth.
Announcements & Connection Opportunities 6/17/23
Please join us tomorrow for corporate worship as we continue our series in Ecclesiastes. Solomon will talk about work and the meaninglessness of work. However, for the first time in Ecclesiastes, Solomon gives us some positive practical reactions to a seemingly depressing situation. Come join us tomorrow and be challenged by God's Word regarding our mindset about work.
Please also come back Sunday evening as Matt Rowley will be bringing the Word of God to us. It is always great to hear from him and I am excited to hear how God is working in his life.
Announcements & Connection Opportunities 6/10/23
Tomorrow we are in for a great treat. Ray and Wanda Hoover are back for a few months from Ethiopia and they will be at TBC tomorrow. Ray will be preaching the Word of God tomorrow and his passion for the Word and love for God’s people is very evident. Come join us for corporate worship tomorrow and be blessed by Ray’s preaching.
Sunday evening Pastor Rowley has reached a turning point in our series on Practical Prophecy. We will see that the Church appeared unexpectedly and without explanation on the Day of Pentecost. It will disappear in the same way. The disciples were still expecting Jesus to establish the Kingdom even after the Church began. But God's plan is so exciting when we understand what He is doing today in the Church.
Announcements & Connection Links 6/3/23
Please join us tomorrow for corporate worship as we seek to praise and honor God. We will be continuing in our Ecclesiastes series, and the next reflection that Solomon brings up is wisdom again. This time though, he looks at the specific aspect of living a wise life and how in the end, when compared to everyone else in the world, living wisely also seems to be a meaningless pursuit. However, like the previous weeks, we have to ask the question, "What is God's perspective?" Join us tomorrow to understand why Solomon has his reflections on living wisely, but we will also take time to realize the way God wants us to see things.
If you are able, please come back Sunday evening as we will see that the drama is increasing. John the Baptist, Jesus and the disciples are preaching for Israel to repent because the Kingdom is "at hand". However, there is a moment when Christ's message changes. Does Israel commit an unpardonable sin? How does all this apply to you and me? Understanding these messages will make the Bible much clearer. I trust the teaching will help us all grow closer to God.