While greeting the congregants at the sanctuary doors following the sermon, one parishioner turns to comment to the Pastor. “Pastor, that was a pretty good sermon today...but then I guess it should be, you only work one day a week!” This misconception has become so common place through the years that it's a very well-known [...]
John 16:27 (ESV) 27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. Reporting for Duty Have you ever seen or heard it told of a wedding where one (or both) of the “happy couple” doesn’t look so happy? It’s a look of doubt, of fear. [...]
Read Mark 14:3-9 At the time of writing this, Pastor Scott recently preached from chapter 14 of the Gospel of Mark. Towards the beginning of the chapter is the widely known account of Mary, as identified by John (John 12:3), anointing Jesus while he was at Simon’s house in Bethany. There is numerous teaching [...]
Continuing the Discussion We’ve talked about our basic rules as worshipers, in general, to minister to God and to minister to people. Let’s focus in a little bit on practically what that could mean for those in our worship ministry. There is always an element where we want to bless and minister to God himself. [...]
Have you ever ordered a meal at a fast food restaurant when you are in a hurry and upon arriving at your destination and opening the bag you find that you were given the wrong meal? There’s nothing like looking forward to a juicy, savory hamburger only to open the bag and find a garden [...]
Task force to Team We have a new official team, or committee if you prefer that term. In July council approved making the Creative Design Team an official team. As some may know, this team was originally formed as a task force by Pastor Ed Rosenberry for the planning of the Christmas season services and [...]
Things change. It’s one thing we can all count on. When it comes to technology and social media, things change at a rapid pace. In the not so distant past a good number of people were seeing our posts. In their Facebook news feeds each week our posts were commonly included. It wasn’t uncommon for [...]
So what's been happening in worship and tech recently? Let me share a little bit... Worship Evening Last month I shared about the worship evening that we had on March 3rd. I just wanted to relate to those of you who missed it that it was a great evening! Thank you to everyone who came [...]
In case you haven’t heard, we are having an evening of worship on Saturday March 3rd at 6:30pm. This is intended to be an evening where we can spend a bit more time in singing our praise and worship (in the contemporary style) to the Lord than what time typically allows on a Sunday morning. [...]
By now we are all settling into 2018. Every January many of us feel that excitement of a restart. A clean slate. A chance to change a few things that we have realized are not the best for us. We see a chance to grow. We recognize an opportunity to break free of things we [...]
