As we approach our 2026 membership meeting on March 1st, our Nominating committee - made up of a few members at large (Jack Timmerman, Bob DiStefano, and Allyn McCarthy) and two board members (Pam Hess and Pastor Chris Francis) -- will be meeting a couple times to discuss and pray about any new potential board members. According to our by-laws there is a minimum of ...

When my husband and I were first married, we automatically agreed to give the first fruits of our income to the Lord. As believers in Jesus, our parents, no matter what the situation, ingrained in us the importance of living within our means and obeying God's command to tithe. With that, they stressed that in doing so, the joy and blessing are many. A tithe, in the Old Te...

This past Sunday our church took a moment to pray for Charlie Kirk's family and for our nation (like we often do for big tragedies). At the time, I was still processing a lot. It's now been over a week since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, and I am surprised by three things: 1. How many people in my life were fans of Charlie Kirk, and I didn't even know it - especially teen...

When you think of your marriage, it's unlikely your mind goes to the second law of thermodynamics (or law of entropy), but it needs to. Otherwise, you risk losing the person you love the most. "In physics, the law of entropy says that all systems, left unattended, will run down. Unless new energy is pumped in, the organism will disintegrate. Entropy is at work in many ar...

Now that the Summer in the Psalms is wrapping up, you may be asking, What's next? My hope is that this time in the Psalmsin our Sunday sermons and through the 45 day reading planhas sparked a deeper love for them, and that you'll want to keep making them part of your devotional life. Christians throughout the centuries have done this, and we can too. 1. Keep a Reading Pla...

Starting tomorrow (Tuesday), we'll be reading Psalm 119. It's a lengthy psalm so we'll spread it over four readingsmorning and eveningacross two days. Here are a few interesting facts to help you enjoy it even more. Psalm 119 is the longest psalm in the Bibleand the longest chapter in the Biblecoming in at 176 verses. It's also highly structured. The psalm has 22 stanzas...

This past Sunday, Pastor Chris preached on Psalm 22a powerful and deeply prophetic passage. While Psalm 22 is a psalm of lament, it also belongs to a group of writings often called the Messianic Psalms. These are Psalms that not only anticipate the coming of the Messiahthe anointed King of Israel who would restore all thingsbut also foreshadow specific events in ...

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Below are three ways 1. Slow Meditation and Prayer First read a psalm all the way through. Get a feel for what kind of psalm it is. Is it about praise? Is it a lament? Is it a psalm of thanksgiving for blessings, or is it a declaration of faith through difficulty? Is it calling down God's justice on wickedness or is it asking for mercy for his own sin? Just get a feel...

One book I keep coming back to when I read the Psalms is The Message of the Psalms by Walter Brueggemann. It's not a long book, but it helped me see something that really stuck: not all Psalms are the same. Brueggemann says the Psalms fall into three big categoriesorientation, disorientation, and reorientation. That might sound a little academic, but here's how I've come ...