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Newsletter — August 11, 2024 August 11th, 2024

Pastor Thacker in his recent sermon noted the high wall erected around sexual purity, as it would cost a man roughly three years wages if he seduced a virgin. That’s a high fence around one’s future marriage relationship. That’s because marriage, and sexual relationship within …

Newsletter — August 4, 2024 August 4th, 2024

As we look around, frustrated by the political shenanigans, the state of the world, the abounding of wickedness, it can be easy to get angry at the state of things. Which is why keeping James chapter 1 in the forefront of our minds is a really good idea. James wrote his epistle to …

Newsletter — July 28, 2024 July 28th, 2024

Recently I preached two sermons on Revelation 4 and 5, which gives the listener a view of heavenly worship as seen through the eyes of John. In that heavenly worship scene Jesus speaks with the voice of a trumpet, from the throne comes peals of thunder and rumblings, there are multiple …

Newsletter — July 21, 2024 July 21st, 2024

We all showed up last Sunday for worship somewhat stunned: an assassination attempt on former President Trump? That doesn’t happen here in America (at least not very much: I personally remember JFK and President Reagan being shot)!So, how do we think about this event? Here are …

Newsletter — July 14, 2024 July 14th, 2024

The conclusion of each letter to the churches in Revelation chapters 2 and 3 ends with a similar phrase: “To the one who conquers, I [Jesus] will…” and then you have a promise of Jesus to that church. They range from eating of the tree of life, not being hurt by the second death …

Newsletter — July 7, 2024 July 7th, 2024

This past Thursday, one way or another, you celebrated the birth of our nation. Either you blew off fireworks or took the day off and watched patriotic movies and cooked out with the family and friends, or you did nothing and tried not to notice. Celebrating on July 4 is often a …

Newsletter — June 30, 2024 June 30th, 2024

How shocking! “Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love” (Proverbs 5:18–19). Can you believe Pastor Thacker read that verse …

Newsletter — June 23, 2024 June 23rd, 2024

In Pastor Joe’s sermon last Sunday, he dealt with Exodus 21:20-21, which is a tightly written passage without a lot of explanation that we moderns would like. Verse 20 seems forthright and Pastor Joe summarized it concisely: the principle is “no excessive brutality” by masters over slaves …

Newsletter — June 16, 2024 June 16th, 2024

There was a time when the very idea of publicly talking about certain topics was frowned upon. The censorious nature of the television gatekeepers was such that to even use certain words (such as, say, the word “virgin”) would cause major controversy. How far we’ve come. The …

Newsletter — June 2, 2024 June 2nd, 2024

Pastor Joe noted last week that baptismal water and the Holy Spirit always go together (“…unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the KOG…”). That’s something us whole-bible, baby-baptizing people stress to other Christians! We stress it because we believe Jesus …

Newsletter — May 26, 2024 May 26th, 2024

When we think of Pentecost, we rightly think of the Great Commission and the unraveling of the confusion of Babel. Now the gospel can be heard and believed in every language!But what many Christians miss about Pentecost is that the Apostles spoke in actual known languages …

Newsletter — May 19, 2024 May 19th, 2024

Today we remember, celebrate, and rejoice in Pentecost, on which we wear red to represent the coming of the Holy Spirit. Acts 2 (one of our Lectionary readings today) tells us that when the Spirit appeared on God’s people as tongues of fire, that they spoke with other tongues in …