This past Sunday I taught on Psalm 46. It was a fitting cap to the previous week—grieving with hope at the loss of Becca, spending time with my mother-in-law as she starts chemo, attending a conference for pastors on the necessity of mortifying sin.
It was a week of strained emotions and...
This past November, we hosted Pastor Robert & Karen Cheong for a weekend seminar titled "Redeem Marriage." It was a fruitful and practical discussion of how the gospel shapes and changes how we relate to our spouses.
If you weren't able to join us for the seminar or want to review what the...
The audio from the session of the marriage seminar, "Christ, Not Kids, at the Center" is now available. Mike & Susan Hanafee shared about how even in the throes of parenting, Christ must remain the central, orienting figure in your marriage.
In the first two sessions of the seminar, Mike...
At our members’ meeting last night, we touched on a number of exciting updates:
We approved Dwayne & Patricia Provo to join as covenant members;
Amy Prange and Margaret Robertson were unanimously voted on to serve as deaconesses; and
Pastor JJ announced Jim Gardner as a new elder...
Across our nation today, churches and communities are calling special attention to what is always true: life is a valuable and sacred gift from God. While science can only speculate about life's origin, the Bible definitively declares that all life, spiritual and physical, is from God and of...
For two weeks this August, a team of 21 individuals will be going out from among us to minister to AIDS-affected children and their families in Kenya. While there, they will be serving with Christ's Hope International at six of their CarePoint mission outposts, including hosting a three day...
Prior to his departure, William Carey, missionary to India and the “father of modern missions,” told the leader of his newly founded missions organization, “Well, I will go down, if you will hold the rope.” The idea Carey was getting at was that a significant part of...
About three weeks has passed since the one year mark of being home from the World Race. In that time I have started, and quickly erased, blogs—desiring to commemorate the year of growth and change; but always with the lingering uncertainty of the right words to use.
It was actually the...
The following is the update one of our missionaries shared at our last monthly women's gathering. Consider how you can help care for our missionaries that we might send them in a manner worthy of God (3 John 6). Names and places have been edited out for security reasons.
People usually...
In 2014, we set up a fund for designated giving that would be used for helping bring relief to the theological famine of the Global South—approximately 85% of the 2.2 million evangelical churches in the world are led by pastors who lack sufficient training. Organizations like the...