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We know what happened over 2000 years ago. We celebrate it every year around this time. We rejoice and recognize the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. The Nazarene. The Galalean. The Son of God. The Messiah. But do you know who was born about 300 years later? Most of us did not study the … Continue reading Saint Nicolas and the Christmas Spirit

Carols Advent series 4 This particular service is very different than the others in the series. It actually is the whole service: Music, readings, Advent candle lighting, and the sermon/message is scattered through out the whole service. I have made this blog post as close to the original experience as one can have through a … Continue reading O Come O Come Emmanuel

Carols Advent Series - 3 Today we are continuing our series entitled “Carols.” It’s a teaching series developed by Life.Church and freely provided to all those who’d like to share the message. As always, I bring each particular message into our context here at Viroqua Naz. Last week we looked at “O Come All Ye … Continue reading Away in a Manger

Carols Advent series - 2 In this post, we continue with our Advent series "Carols" and will focus on "O Come All Ye Faithful." This series was originally developed by Life.Church and is updated/edited by me to fit our local context and situation. I personally and professionally appreciate Life.Church's desire to equip and strengthen leaders … Continue reading O Come All Ye Faithful?

Carols Advent Series - 1 In this post we begin our advent series, Carols. It was originally developed by Life.Church. They encourage churches to share and utilize their teaching series and I found this one and thought it was just what we needed this year. I’ve modified it for our local purposes here at ViroquaNaz.  … Continue reading O Holy Night

2 Timothy 1:3-5 In the past several years, there has been a cultural phenomenon. Whenever someone does something you don’t like, or an organization does something you don’t agree with, people lobby for them to be fired or their businesses shut down. The term for this is Cancelling. Cancel Culture. I think much of this … Continue reading Thanksgiving – Cancelled?!

1 Tim 6 1 Timothy so far has been a whirlwind of topics! Heresy, Food Rules, guidance for the ministry of widows. All very important topics and ones that specifically spoke to the church in Ephesus. Not only did they address concerns that Paul had in the congregation there, they are of course...applicable to us … Continue reading “If I had a nickel for every time I was content…”

1 Timothy 5 Last week we took a plunge into the topic of the church and food. Not the rules of potlucks. We focused on Paul’s instructions to Timothy that fought against the heresy of the day: Gnosticism. Gnosticism claims that matter is evil, therefore certain foods (and possibly all food) was unholy. Paul said … Continue reading You Make a Better Door than a Widow

If you'd like to listen to the Audio recording of this message, please CLICK HERE. This morning we will continue on in our series on Timothy 1 & 2. Today’s key passage is from 1 Timothy 4:4-5. We will be looking at other New Testament passages as well. But I want to start off by … Continue reading You Want Me To Eat What?!

Today we’re beginning a new journey through First and Second Timothy. Timothy, as we will go into more detail about, was brought to the faith by his mentor, Paul. He also had a family that influenced and guided him toward knowing and serving God. These two letters are instructions from Paul to Timothy concerning how … Continue reading I’m Not Superstitious…I Am a Little Stitious…