This Sunday begins the Advent season, I will be preaching from Mark 5: 1-17. In this text, Jesus encounters a man at the low ends of life. This is a story of hope and transformation. When Jesus asked him, “what is your name?” the man replied, “I am Legion, for we are many.” Theological scholars agree that Legion refers to a Roman army unit of about 6000 soldiers. So when this man says that he is Legion, in a practical sense he is saying, “My life is broken into thousands of p

Dear family and friends, It has been just over two months since our last prayer update. Do forgive our tardiness! Things have progressed at 100 mph it seems, and there are many praises and prayer requests to share (see bold italics for praises and prayer requests). Tessa continues to progress well with language school. She and her classmate (another missionary lady – she and her husband have a toddler Oscar’s age) have advanced quite quickly through the first few stages of

Matthew 6:25-33 The word providence refers to the care and benevolent guidance of God. It comes from the same root word as do “provide” and “provisions.” Providence means that everything that happens, however bewildering, is ultimately subject to God’s purposes, but today, we are sometimes quicker to attribute the things that happen to fate, luck, our own hard work, or the intervention of other people. The above text comes from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, and one of the theme

“If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.” Job 14:14 It would be terrible to look back over your life and see that the many times you thought your prayer request was denied was actually only delayed. Life will always present broken places, places of struggle and conflict. If you have a divine purpose and life has put you on hold, hang on! Stay on the line until life gets back to you. It’s worth the wait to receive

We will be having our Missions day this coming Sunday (November 22nd). We are excited to host a missionary guest speaker. She will speak twice. The first session will be at 9:00am in the gym. Don’t miss it, we will be serving free breakfast for all. Then the second session will be at the 10:30am worship service. As we come towards our Missions Sunday, I have been reflecting on the Lord’s Prayer and what it teaches us about missions. Especially Mathew 6: 10; “Thy kingdom come,

Habakkuk 3:16-19 Tomorrow morning, I will be preaching from the above text. My heart goes out to those affected by the attacks in Paris. StartFragment The OT prophet Habakkuk lived in a time back in the 7th century B.C. when everything also seemed to be falling apart in his world. All around him he observed sin, violence, and injustice. Habakkuk saw a dying world and it broke his heart. The world is going through tough times. When we think of the reckless wars and terrorism,

"And, behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eigteen years, and was bowed together and could in no way lift herself up... He called her to Him and said to her, Woman, thou are loosed from your infirmity" Luke 13: 11- 12 Perhaps like me, you find some point of similarity between this woman's situation and your own situation. There are three major characters in this story: the person, the problem and the prescription. For every person, there will be a problem a

"But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light... the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleaneth us from all sin." 1 John 1:7 Just think about this for a moment! The blood is the only element in our bodies that reaches and affects and fuels all the parts of the body. If the blood is restricted from reaching a certain part of the body, that part will internally asphyxiate (die, lose conciousness, choke, suffocate). Every organ in the body needs blood. The blood also delivers