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Newsletter

June 11: How to Witness to Anyone and Everyone

June 7, 2011

Now that is a stimulating title for a short newsletter!  I have recently been challenged about the need to help with instruction on how to share our faith. I agree that a course or a speaker could be very helpful in encouraging us to overcome our natural fears that get in the way of personal [...]

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May 11: We the Church

May 12, 2011

WE THE CHURCH – May 2011
 
We have written about how the church works as a body of God’s people, gathered together and scattered into the society as salt and light.  We often emphasize how important it is that we not forget who we are when living in our neighborhoods, or being productive and faithful at [...]

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Apr. 11: He Is Risen

March 31, 2011

Easter Week Schedule
Wednesday, April 20 – NO Mid-week service Friday,
April 22, 6:00pm — Good Friday service
Easter Weekend Services:  Saturday, April 23, 6:00pm , Sunday, April 24, 8:45 & 10:45am
Baptisms to follow each weekend service. If you’d like to be baptized please sign up at the i-centre and pick up a Baptism teaching CD (also available online) One [...]

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Mar 11: The Month of Faith and Joy … and Love and Peace and Patience

March 2, 2011

Last month I reminded us all that 2011 as the year of Faith and Joy, then I added Love to the list.  This month two other ‘fruit’ of the ‘fruit of the Holy Spirit’ are being added.  Our theme of Faith and Joy is very appropriate for us to think about during 2011.  Joy should [...]

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Feb 11: “Love”

February 4, 2011

We have declared 2011 as the year of Faith with Joy.  Since joy is a fruit of the Spirit then we should think of the other eight words that describe that fruit.  So in February we will add to our theme, love: The Month of Faith with Joy and Love!  Of course when February comes [...]

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Jan. 2011 – Year of Faith with Joy

December 28, 2010

For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. 1 Timothy 4:8   (NIV10)
It is not the purpose of this first article of the year to extol the benefits of physical exercise, except to point out that as one [...]

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Thanksgiving 2010

November 9, 2010

November is Thanksgiving month.  I love the Thanksgiving holiday because it does not come with all the commercialism of Christmas or even Easter.  Thanksgiving is a great time to stop for at least a day and thank God for all He has given us.  It is a time of family celebration – a time for [...]

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The Separation of Church and Stan

October 5, 2010

The Separation of Church and Stan
Meet Stan.  Stan is a 34 year old male.  He is a pretty good guy.  Doesn’t drink, works hard, comes to church fairly regularly.  He likes church, especially the music.  He thinks the Pastor is a pretty neat guy.  He likes most of what is being said, although he must [...]

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October 2010 Monthly Messenger

September 29, 2010

TRIALS – bring ‘em on!
The last weekend sermon I preached in September was about the need for trials to come into our lives to prove our faith.  Without trials we have no idea how we are doing.  Without competition a runner, rower, gymnast, or any athlete will not get better.  It is only in the [...]

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September 2010 Monthly Messenger

August 28, 2010

Church in our time is often an ‘event’ planned by a committee to cause those attending to have an experience that will bring them back to the next service.  Many books are being written accusing the church of irrelevancy. They suggest the days of gathering together in buildings while being told how to live are [...]

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