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Sunday School 9 a.m.
Sunday Morning Worship  10:30 a.m.
Sunday Evening Worship 6 p.m.
Wednesday Night Youth 7 p.m.

Enjoy the Christ-centered Celtic worship as Amy and her husband Gary lead our worship service on Sunday, April 18th. 60 minutes of enjoying the unique sounds of harp and guitar!

Helps to Trust

It’s easy to obsess over roadblocks to trust and ignore the other side. And this other side are the events, people, and reminders that encourage trust.   In other words, God sends people, God uses events, God re-enacts patterns, and God Himself reminds us about our previous choice to trust. Several years ago I was [...]

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Hurdles to Trust

The essence of trust is surrendering myself into the care of another.  And there are few “others” who won’t fail us to some degree or another. Ultimately, trust is surrendering myself to Someone ultimate, to Someone outside of me and beyond me and far higher than me, whose character is thoroughly good to the very [...]

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Difficult Trust

Faith has never, ever come easy for me.    It needs constant work. That’s probably why God keeps putting me in situations where I need to trust Him more, in more and more areas of my life, at deeper and deeper levels.  He just won’t change the subject. It’s easier to trust God for what [...]

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Growing Up is Hard to Do

What is maturity?   What is adulthood?   And how does one know when one is on the path to growing up? Our society celebrates prolonged adolescence and delayed adulthood.    All around us is the spectacle of today’s 35 year olds acting like yesteryear’s 15 year olds. My theory is this:   idolatry, the [...]

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The De-Idolatry Process

It’s so  human to ask the question, “Why?”    Especially when things are happening that we don’t understand and that hurt us deeply. For instance, why is our nation so thwarted in so many areas right now?   Our economic, political, and social institutions don’t appear to be up to the job of saving our [...]

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