Dear Friends, Continuing in this series of discussion in the Pastor’s Corner on the Order of Worship or Liturgy, we come now to the Invocation. The Invocation is the opening prayer in our service whereby we are invoking the presence of God to superintend our worship of Him. This prayer is about God and to God.  There are several things that should be noted… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, Continuing in this series of discussion in the Pastor’s Corner on the Order of Worship or Liturgy, we come now to the Call to Worship. The Call to Worship is exactly what the words mean – it is a call to God’s people to come in to God’s presence, on God’s Day, to worship Him.  The reason we… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, Continuing with our discussion of the Order of Worship or Liturgy, we will now dive into the specifics of our service. The first three parts of our Order of Worship have to do with preparation. It begins with the Prelude. During the prelude, the music team is signifying that it is time to take… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, A few weeks ago, I wrote about Doxological Evangelism and promised that I would take some time in future pastor’s corners to write about our order of worship that we use during Sunday morning worship.  What is an Order of Worship or Liturgy? It is just that – it is the formal way… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, At the end of A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charlie Brown finally gets his answer to what Christmas is all about when Linus reads the Christmas story from Luke 2. And, of course, Christmas is all about a Savior being born who is Christ the Lord. But what is Easter all about?  That is the… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, What is doxological evangelism? I’m glad you asked! First, we must understand that there are many ways to do evangelism. Evangelism doesn’t have to be a program you enroll in or a group that you sign up to be a part of. Evangelism doesn’t even have to be something you are good at. Evangelism… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, On Wednesday, March 27th, we said goodbye to another saint in our congregation, Tom Keown. It was almost five months to the date that his dear wife, Ann, preceded him in death. I will be honest with you, these two dear believers are heroes to me! Why? Because they were married for 63 years…. Continue Reading

Dear Friends, The Finance Committee has asked me to update you on the current status of our downtown property. Before I give any more details, may I ask you to pray? Please pray daily for God’s will on our path forward with the downtown property and for His provision. Thanks to strong year-end giving in 2018, we were able to pay down… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, This Sunday will be a wonderful Sunday in the life of our church as we welcome more new members and communicants. In addition, we will have three baptisms! What a wonderful joy it will be to celebrate this sacrament as a church family. The baptism will include one infant baptism as well as… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, I know that many of you reading this are sick or have sick family members. I am praying for you. I know this can be a difficult time to concentrate and do “normal” things. May God help us to have the mind of faithfulness demonstrated by the psalmist: “Bless the Lord, O my soul,… Continue Reading