Pastor Brian gave us a great message yesterday!  If you weren’t there to hear it, check it out by clicking on Sermons.  It’s worth a 30 minute listen.  In a nutshell—if you want to grow in your faith exercise it.  Bible study is great, but if you’re going to grow you have to live that faith out, put the truth of the Scriptures into practice.  As you do, you’ll find that Faith Works!

One of the things that our guest speaker, Brian Ruark, said yesterday morning was that faith is sometimes spelled R-I-S-K.  

At the risk of sounding morbid (and I don't intend to!), all the memorial services of late have been a reminder of our own mortality.  It's a subject we don't like to think about but should.  

Does the beautiful Christmas music ever end!?  Some worshipful and reflective, some glorious and monumental, some lively and fun.  One of my favorites from way back is Amy Grant’s Love Has Come - check it out on You Tube when you have a minute. Or Jars of Clay singing Love Came Down at Christmas.  It’s true, that God’s ultimate expression of love came in the person of Jesus—born, lived, died, raised, ascended and coming again!  

“Joy to the world, the Lord is come!”  And there, in one line, is the reason for the lasting, doesn’t-depend-on-my-circumstances joy that God wants us to have.