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By Dr. Kevin Donley (Blog post written by Pastor Matt Angell) This post is a bit of a shorter one than you would expect. This past Sunday at church, our District Superintendent, Dr. Kevin Donley came to do my pastoral and our church review in a brief meeting following service. Prior to that meeting with … Continue reading A Tale of Two Prophets

Photo by RODNAE Productions on Pexels.com Acts 1:12-14; 2:1-41 Today, we are going to spend a little bit of time in chapter one and the majority of our time in chapter two. If you're reading this blog or tuning in online and you are not quite sure why we’d be reading about wood cutting tools, … Continue reading Real Revival

Today’s post is going to attempt to accomplish three things.  1) Take a look back and recap the past year in the life of our local congregation.  2) Talk about the coming year, things we’d like to see and accomplish.  3) Be inspired and encouraged by God’s word, seeing our story in his story. You … Continue reading Isaiah: Venues of God’s Glory

Sermon 6 in the Isaiah Series In your life, perhaps you’ve heard the phrase “a come to Jesus Moment.” Yeah? What do you think that means? (Here are some definitions from idioms.thefreedictionary.com) A moment in time where someone chooses to accept Jesus as their Lord and SaviorA moment of epiphany, enlightenment, or intuition regarding the … Continue reading Isaiah: A Come to Jesus Moment

Sermon 5 in the Isaiah Series Photo by Katie E on Pexels.com Last week we talked about Isaiah’s use of imagery, specifically focusing on plants and trees. He talked about the Stump of Jesse, the family line through whom the Savior would come would be like new life coming out of that which was dead. … Continue reading Isaiah: Blessed and a Blessing

Photo by KayVic P on Pexels.com Isaiah series part 4 Isaiah 11:1-16 Imagery is an amazing teaching tool. It can relate thoughts and feelings without words. Or words can paint pictures that the wise understand but the foolish do not. It can veil a warning in poetic threats. Imagery can make something imateral...like hope or … Continue reading Isaiah: The Botany Prophecies

Message 3 in the Isaiah series Today, I want to approach the scripture passage a bit differently than the way we’ve done the past few messages. We will start in Isaiah 6, looking at it step-by-step...but soon we will move into the topic of Calling. When we take a look at Isaiah’s encounter with God … Continue reading Isaiah: Callings

Part of the Isaiah Bible Study Series - Isaiah 15:1-16:14 This morning we’re continuing with our study of Isaiah. Like I said last week, we are jumping around a bit. The events written about in Isaiah don’t happen in chapter-and-verse chronological order. That being said, there’s nothing stopping us from looking at chapters 15 and … Continue reading Isaiah: A People in Pain

Week 1: True and False Worship Isaiah 1:1-31 Last week we looked at the final message in the Spiritual Disciplines series. We focused on 2 things: Knowledge and what we do with it. Specifically we focused on the confession - knowing you need saved  AND Jesus’ knowing of God’s word. But all that knowledge is … Continue reading Isaiah – True and False Worship

Easter 2021 Resurrection Sunday. Today we will finish off our series on Spiritual Disciplines. The ones we’ve covered: Fellowship, Consecration, Fasting and Prayer, Generosity, Ministry, Introspection, Meditation and Worship. Usually on this day of the Christian calendar we’d hear some passages on the various resurrection accounts. We will hear some, but today’s focus is about … Continue reading Knowledge and What We Do With It