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John 2:1-11 March 28, 2021 preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “What happens the next morning [the triumphal entry] is not a spontaneous act of outrage but a planned demonstration. Planned for prime time and maximum exposure, it was a ‘demonstration’ calculated to interrupt business as usual […]
John 2:1-11 March 28, 2021 preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “What happens the next morning [the triumphal entry] is not a spontaneous act of outrage but a planned demonstration. Planned for prime time and maximum exposure, it was a ‘demonstration’ calculated to interrupt business as usual […]
Haggai 2:4-9, 20-23; John 6:25-29 (ESV) March 21, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Human beings are hope-shaped creatures. The way you live now is completely controlled by what you believe about the future.” ~ Tim Keller, NYC-based pastor and author “Christians are no different from the […]
Haggai 2:4-9, 20-23; John 6:25-29 (ESV) March 21, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Human beings are hope-shaped creatures. The way you live now is completely controlled by what you believe about the future.” ~ Tim Keller, NYC-based pastor and author “Christians are no different from the […]
John 1:1-18 January 24, 2021 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it, If only we’re brave enough to be it.” ~Amanda Gorman, first-ever youth poet laureate at the presidential inauguration “It is not because the […]
selected passages January 17, 2021 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “I simply argue that the cross be raised again, at the centre of the marketplace, as well as on the steeple of the church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a […]
selected passages January 10, 2021 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. ‘One word of truth outweighs the world.’” ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), novelist and Soviet dissident “I freed thousands of slaves, but I […]
selected passages January 3, 2021 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Never let a single day pass over your head without a visit to the garden of Gethsemane, and the cross on Calvary…. [W]hen you come to Christ, you may come boldly. There is no fee required; […]
Matthew 1:1-16 December 27, 2020 preached by Noah Crane Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “The Son of God became man so that men might become sons of God.” ~Athanasius, 4th century church leader and Bishop of Alexandria “If Jesus didn’t come, the story of Christmas is one more moral paradigm to […]
Luke 2:8-12 December 24, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “We’re in a time where we exclude one major component out of this whole thing called life: God.” ~Kendrick Lamar, rapper, songwriter and producer “We don’t have any control. And so, if you don’t have any […]
selections from Hebrews 1 & 2 December 20, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “The Son is the Father’s All.” ~Athanasius (c. 196-373 AD), North African theologian and church leader “God cannot be Word-less, for the Word is God. Here then is a God who could […]
Luke 1:26-40 December 13, 2020 preached by Scott Sottosanti Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “One word became unbelievably clear, and that word was privilege. He didn’t take away pain or cruelty or humiliation. No! It was all there, but now it was altogether different. It was with him, for him, in […]
Matthew 1:1, 17-25; Micah 6:8 (NASB) December 6, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Something about the name Jesus Something about the name Jesus It is the sweetest name, I know” ~“Something About the Name Jesus” by Rance Allen (1948-2020) “We deserved death, wrath, and hell forever…. […]
selected passages November 22, 2020 preached by Robert Moore Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “For my name’s sake I defer my anger; for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off. Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have […]
selected passages from Ephesians 1 & 2 November 15, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “The grace of God is love freely shown towards guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit. It is God showing goodness to persons who deserve […]
Romans 1:18-32, 12:18-21 November 8, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Love is an act of the will…that leads to action on behalf of its object.” ~Voddie Baucham, Dean of Theology at African Christian University (Zambia) “A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, […]
1 John 4:7-14, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 November 1, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “…service and self-giving are themselves the highest of divine attributes.” ~C.F.D. Moule (1908-2007), biblical scholar and Cambridge professor “Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said […]
John 14:21 & Psalm 139 October 25, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.” “We must never rest until everything inside us worships God.” ~A.W. Tozer […]
selected passages October 18, 2020 preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “God only knows, God makes his plan, The information’s unavailable to the mortal man. We work our jobs collect our pay, Believe were gliding down the highway, When in fact were slip sliding away.” ~Paul Simon, […]
Jeremiah 32:36-41, 33-14-26 October 11, 2020 preached by Scott Sottosanti Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like […]
Hebrews 4:9-13 October 4, 2020 preached by Lindsay Whaley Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “For just as eyes, when dimmed with age or weakness or by some other defect, unless aided by spectacles, discern nothing distinctly; so, such is our feebleness, unless Scripture guides us in seeking God, we are immediately […]
selected passages September 2, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “God cannot be Word-less, for the Word is God. Here then is a God who could never be anything but communicative, expansive, outgoing. Since God cannot be without this Word, he simply could not ever be […]
Matthew 17:1-13, 2 Peter 1:16-18 September 20, 2020 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “When we lose sight of the majesty of God, we invariably fill the gap in our vision with the fable of the majesty of someone else.” ~Jen Wilkin (1969-present), American writer, speaker and […]
Jeremiah 9:23-24; John 17:1-3 September 13, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “It’s not what you know. It’s who you know.” ~A Common Proverb “My hands, head, face, legs, hips, hormones, private parts, voice, feet, fingers, feelings, were all made by Him and for Him. Apparently, […]
Psalm 45 September 6, 2020 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “God created the world to provide a spouse and a kingdom for His Son: and the setting up of the kingdom of Christ, and the spiritual marriage of the spouse to Him, is what the whole […]
Psalm 133 August 30, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Truth is under attack…. Rare is the person who believes that there are facts that correspond with reality (truths) and…are true for all people in all places and at all times…. [T]his will ultimately lead us […]
Romans 12:1-2, 9-21 August, 30, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “The household of God must offer a clear and lovely alternative to the madness of this world.” ~ Ray Ortlund, contemporary pastor and author “We don’t come to church, to be a church. We come […]
Romans 12:1-2, 9-21 August, 30, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “The household of God must offer a clear and lovely alternative to the madness of this world.” ~ Ray Ortlund, contemporary pastor and author “We don’t come to church, to be a church. We come […]
Psalm 133 August 23, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “God has already laid the only foundation of our fellowship, because God has already bound us together in one body with other Christians in Jesus Christ, long before we entered into common life with them…. [Therefore] […]
Psalm 133 August 16, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “To dwell in love with saints above— Oh that will be glory! But to dwell below with saints we know— Ah! That’s a different story!” ~Christopher J.H. Wright, missiologist, Anglican clergyman and scholar “Christianity means community […]
Psalm 11 August 9, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.” ~Plato (~424-348 BC), Athenian philosopher “Mao thought he could eliminate religion. He thought he had accomplished this. It’s ironic – they didn’t. They actually failed […]
Psalm 11 August 2, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.” ~Tim Keller […]
Psalm 130 July 19, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” ~Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), lawyer and 16th President of the United States “The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but […]
Psalm 13:1-6 July 12, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Too many Christians are doctrinally malnourished so that any bacteria or virus of heresy that comes their way wreaks havoc in their lives.” ~Conrad Mbewe, Zambian pastor and educator “The secret formula of the saints: When […]
Psalm 105:1-15, 42-45 July 5, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Video or Download Audio Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.” ~ Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese-American writer, poet, visual artist and philosopher “The secret formula […]
Psalm 105:1-15, 42-45 June 28, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.” ~ Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese-American writer, poet, visual artist and philosopher “The secret formula of the saints: […]
Psalm 23 June 28, 2020 preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Everyone reads, everyone hears things discussed. Consequently, if you do not listen to Theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones—bad, […]
Psalm 105:1-15, 42-45 June 28, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.” ~ Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese-American writer, poet, visual artist and philosopher “The secret formula of the saints: […]
Selections from James June 21, 2020 preached by Chris Audino Download Audio or Download Video Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the […]
James 5:13-20 June 14, 2020 preached by Abrm McQuarters Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one” ~Bruce Lee (1940-1973), actor, director and martial artist “I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is […]
James 5:13-20 June 14, 2020 preached by Abrm McQuarters Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one” ~Bruce Lee (1940-1973), actor, director and martial artist “I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is […]
James 5:13-20 June 14, 2020 preached by Abrm McQuarters Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one” ~Bruce Lee (1940-1973), actor, director and martial artist “I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is […]
James 5:7-12 June 7, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio or Download Video Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” ~Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), lawyer and 16th President of the United States “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is […]
James 4:13-5:8 May 31, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Worldliness is a spirit, a temperament, an attitude of the soul… It is a gaze always horizontal and never vertical.” ~ J.H. Jowett (1864-1923), British minister and author “Might like to wear cotton, might like to […]
James 4:13-5:8 May 31, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Worldliness is a spirit, a temperament, an attitude of the soul… It is a gaze always horizontal and never vertical.” ~ J.H. Jowett (1864-1923), British minister and author “Might like to wear cotton, might like to […]
James 5:1-8 May 31, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio or Download Video Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Put God first.” ~Denzel Washington at the 2015 Dillard University commencement speech “…man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun…” ~Clifford Geertz (1926-2006), noted American anthropologist “There […]
James 4:13-17 May 24, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire” “You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, […]
James 4:13-17 May 24, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire” “You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, […]
James 4:13-17 May 24, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.” ~Simone Weil (1909-1943), French philosopher and political activist; Albert Camus described her as “the only great spirit of our times” “Today is yesterday’s tomorrow […]
1 Corinthians 11:17-34 (ESV) May 17, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “God had one Son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.” ~St. Augustine (354-430), bishop in North Africa “Jesus had the guilty in mind when He hung high and stretched out wide…. […]
1 Corinthians 11:17-34 (ESV) May 17, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “God had one Son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.” ~St. Augustine (354-430), bishop in North Africa “Jesus had the guilty in mind when He hung high and stretched out wide…. […]
1 Corinthians 11:17-34 (ESV) May 17, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “God had one Son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.” ~St. Augustine (354-430), bishop in North Africa “Jesus had the guilty in mind when He hung high and stretched out wide…. […]
James 4:1-1 May 10, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “It’s not religions that contain hatred, but human hearts.” ~Valley News lead editorial borrowed from the Los Angeles Times (4-30-2019) “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” ~Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), lawyer, […]
James 4:1-12 May 10, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply provide the occasion for the heart to express itself.” […]
James 4:1-12 May 10, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply provide the occasion for the heart to express itself.” […]
James 3:3-4:12 May 3, 2020 preached by Lindsay Whaley Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Envy is an ulcer of the soul.” ~Socrates, Greek philosopher (470-399BC) “But by the envy of the devil, death entered the world, and they who are allied with him experience it.” ~Book of Wisdom 2:24 (an influential […]
James 3:3-4:12 May 3, 2020 preached by Lindsay Whaley Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Envy is an ulcer of the soul.” ~Socrates, Greek philosopher (470-399BC) “But by the envy of the devil, death entered the world, and they who are allied with him experience it.” ~Book of Wisdom 2:24 (an influential […]
James 3:3-4:12 May 3, 2020 preached by Lindsay Whaley Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Envy is an ulcer of the soul.” ~Socrates, Greek philosopher (470-399BC) “But by the envy of the devil, death entered the world, and they who are allied with him experience it.” ~Book of Wisdom 2:24 (an influential […]
James 1:26, 3:2, 7-10; Proverbs 15:1-2, 4; 16:24; 18:21a April 26, 2020 preached by Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Talking is the most dangerous thing people do, especially when they are stressed, and listening is the most infrequent thing people do, especially when they are stressed.” ~ Harville Hendrix […]
James 1:26, 3:2, 7-10; Proverbs 15:1-2, 4; 16:24; 18:21a April 26, 2020 preached by Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Talking is the most dangerous thing people do, especially when they are stressed, and listening is the most infrequent thing people do, especially when they are stressed.” ~ Harville Hendrix […]
James 1:2-4, 12 April 19, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet “I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.” ~ Marie Curie (1867-1934), French physicist and two-time winner of […]
James 1:2-4, 12 April 19, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet “I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.” ~ Marie Curie (1867-1934), French physicist and two-time winner of […]
John 11:1-53 April 12, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.” ~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955), famed theoretical physicist “Things aren’t always […]
John 11:1-53 April 12, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.” ~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955), famed theoretical physicist “Things aren’t always […]
Matthew 20:29-21:11 (ESV) April 5, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Jesus had the guilty in mind when He hung high and stretched out wide…. He, bare-bodied and face set on joy, became as a slaughtered lamb underneath the wrath of God… Didn’t He know that […]
Matthew 20:29-21:11 (ESV) April 5, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Jesus had the guilty in mind when He hung high and stretched out wide…. He, bare-bodied and face set on joy, became as a slaughtered lamb underneath the wrath of God… Didn’t He know that […]
Habakkuk 3:1-19 March 29, 2020 preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect […]
Habakkuk 3:1-19 March 29, 2020 preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect […]