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Posted on March 20, 2023March 20, 2023

Gains, Losses, And Making The Cut

Sometimes we have to choose joy, even if we don’t feel like it. In the same way we love our family although some days we may not feel like liking them. Joy is found in knowing Christ. It isn’t dependent on emotions the same way happiness is. When I was young, my aunt and uncle …

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Posted on February 13, 2023February 13, 2023

Is Your Vision Of God Too Small?

There’s a lot going on in our world that is hard to take in. It may seem that things look hopeless. It’s easy to get down and feel dread in your life. The earthquake in Turkey & Syria was devastating with so many lives lost. We’re shooting balloons of some unidentified objects out of the …

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Posted on January 30, 2023January 30, 2023

Have We Gained Anything From Christ?

This post is based on the sermon of my pastor, Jon Porter, at Milan Christian Church. The scripture reference is Philippians 2:1-11. This is from the letter Paul wrote to the people at the church he started in Philippi. As he writes this letter Paul is in prison, but he writes of the joy that …

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Posted on November 23, 2021November 23, 2021

Choose Joy; Happiness is Temporary

Imagine that you’ve been dragged away from your country and forced to work as a slave in a foreign land. As you and your group is returning home it was like the last years were just a dream. Your God has called you home. There is much laughter and joyful singing as you recall all …

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Posted on June 21, 2020June 21, 2020

How To Fix Everything

Bible and coffee. Image by mnplatypus from Pixabay Living in a time when we are all looking out for ourselves and just trying to get through tough times tends to turn people inward and we become self focused. But where has that gotten you so far? Today's sermon was based on Philippians 2:1-11. Paul's letter …

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Posted on May 24, 2020May 24, 2020

Joy Is A State Of Mind

Joy is directly connected to your state of mind. - Jon Porter, Sermon 5/24/2020 You know sometimes when you hear a sermon, it's like the pastor wrote it just for you? He must have been reading your mind. But you know that's not possible. That's how today's sermon hit me. I know these are unprecedented …

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Posted on December 20, 2019January 1, 2020

Christmas Joy

Christmas has been tough since my dad spent the holiday in the hospital in 2000. Christmas was always a very special time of year for him. I just couldn't get into it that year, I haven't sent out Christmas cards like I did before that year. I didn't want to decorate or do any of …

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Posted on October 27, 2019October 30, 2019

Treasure, Part 2

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; Psalm 24:1a “Mine!” Did you teach your child to feel like certain things belonged to them? We may think that we didn’t actually teach them that word and maybe we didn’t purposefully. But, children learn by what we …

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