When We Gather To Pray…

When We Gather To Pray… …WE GAIN THE BIG-PICTURE PERSPECTIVE ON OUR LIVES. For you, O Lord, are my hope,      my trust, O Lord, from my youth. Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;      you are he who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of […]

When We Gather To Pray…

When We Gather To Pray…

When We Gather To Pray… … THE CHURCH REALIZES ITS PURPOSE. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”  —Matthew 21:13 What makes the church the church? The word ‘church’ means an assembly, or gathering. But an assembly for what? […]

When We Gather To Pray…

When We Gather To Pray…

When We Gather To Pray… …We Experience Peace “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”     —John 16:33 What fills you with dread? Public speaking, perhaps, or a deadline. Maybe the weather report, or […]

When We Gather to give Thanks…

When We Gather to give Thanks…

Sunday, November 21st at 6:00pm Join us for an evening of prayer, praise, & giving thanks! Stay after for fellowship & pie (provided by us)!   ..WE REMEMBER GOD’S SALVATION. Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by a […]

When We Gather to Pray…

When We Gather to Pray…

…WE MAKE A PLEASING OFFERING TO GOD. “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” —Romans 12:1 How do you please God? Have you ever thought about that question? I know I’ve thought about […]

When We Gather To Pray…

When We Gather To Pray…

When We Gather To Pray…   …WE DRAW NEAR TO A GOD OF MERCY. Then Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?”  — Genesis 18:23 Someone from our church family was really sick in the hospital this week. Things could have gone really bad, very quickly. And because […]