Stepping out in faith…
As we enter a new year, Jon Porter brings us a question to consider. “Does God’s love really include you?” It’s difficult for us, in our humanness, to make sense of God’s love. It doesn’t make much sense to us because we are more likely to love those who first show love to us. But, …
When we think of darkness, it’s usually in the sense that we can’t see. But, sometimes it’s an emotional or spiritual darkness that seems to hang over us. Pastor Jon Porter encouraged us this week to remember that this is a season of hope. Light is breaking into the darkness. Hope isn’t just a wish, …
We often think out of scarcity. That was the case with the four men with leprosy that we find in 2 Kings 7. They were in a hopeless situation and discussed the options they had: If they stayed where they were outside the city, they would die. Going into the city where the famine is, …
This blog post is my take on my pastor, Jon Porter’s sermon from 10/20/24. The story Kris Kristofferson tells about what led up to his writing the song “Why Me, Lord?” is an incredible story of the hand of God at work in a man’s heart. You can watch him tell about it on this …
Everything! All of God’s laws are summed up in that one little word. The central core them in the Bible is love and if we focus on that, no other laws are even needed. The problem is we are more concerned about our agendas and we forget about love. Love is the answer! We try …
It may seem like a strange thing to preach a sermon on, but stay with me and you’ll understand. Governments and the systems that run them are tools in the hands of God. ”For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free …
We’re still in our Dysfunctional Family Series centered around the family of Jacob. Our focus has been on Joseph who was sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. We’ve talked about how Jacob’s favoritism of Joseph over the rest of his brothers fed the dysfunctionalism. I think all families have some type of dysfunction that …
Genesis 39 Joseph’s brothers went on with their lives it seems without much thought of what happened to him. But God was with Joseph and had not forgotten him. Joseph was bought by Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials. Potiphar quickly realized that he was blessed as long as Joseph was in his house. God blessed …
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It can be easy to turn from God, well, at least who we’ve made him to be. We want God to do what we want. So, instead of trying to learn more about who he is, we try to put him in a box and look at him like a Jeanie who will make our …
Jesus will never endorse a spirit of hypocritical condemnation. We can’t condemn someone because we are sinners ourselves. We are all sinners saved by grace. It’s not something we can gain by anything we do. But, what motivates us to continue to try? We think we are so above others because it makes us look …
Where God Leads 