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Lent is a season marked in the church calendar for us to reflect on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. It’s a season of prayer, repentance, lament and often includes fasting. We are reminded of our own mortality and we are pointed to the hope of our salvation,…

Lent is a season marked in the church calendar for us to reflect on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. It’s a season of prayer, repentance, lament and often includes fasting. We are reminded of our own mortality and we are pointed to the hope of our salvation,…

Lent is a season marked in the church calendar for us to reflect on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. It’s a season of prayer, repentance, lament and often includes fasting. An invitation to respond to the Holy Spirits invitation and reorient our lives to the Way of…

Lent is a season marked in the church calendar for us to reflect on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. It’s a season of prayer, repentance, lament and often includes fasting. We are reminded of our own mortality and we are pointed to the hope of our salvation,…

Providing Pastors with a Rest from Productivity In 2023, after realizing the need to offer our pastors extended time for rest and renewal, the elders implemented a sabbatical policy. Between the eighth and tenth year of full-time continuous service, the church extends a three-month sabbatical (paid time off) to…

An Advent (week four) devotion adapted from “Living the Christian Year.” After weeks of patient expectation, now we celebrate with boisterous joy and wide-eyed amazement the actual arrival of the “Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord.” Something utterly glorious! But surprisingly, he arrives in virtual obscurity; born a…

An Advent (week three) devotion adapted from “Living the Christian Year.” The fourth week of Advent will be full, with all the purchases, the preparations, the parties. So much to get ready. Spiritually the goal is the same, to get ready. Yet we must find a way to settle…

An Advent (week two) devotion adapted from “Living the Christian Year.” This week we begin to anticipate joy. We are growing more aware of Christmas Day approaching, with all its bright celebration. Still, we must wait, and this is good practice. Like the faithful of Israel in their day,…

An Advent (week one) devotion adapted from “Living the Christian Year.” At the start of a new Christian year, it is fitting to contemplate both the first coming of Christ, and the second; the birth of our Savior alongside the second coming and the promised new heaven and earth.…