Posts by Pastor Bill (Page 2)
Update from Pastor Bill
April 9, 2020 Dear Faithful Church Family, I hope that you are having a meaningful Holy Week, complete with some quiet time to reflect on the value and meaning of remembering the journey to the cross while looking forward to the celebration of the resurrection! We received some positive news today at my oncology appointment and I wanted to share it with you. I have been having regular blood work done over the last several weeks. We don’t usually think much…
A Word From Pastor Bill
March 26, 2020 I just wanted to update the church family on my health situation. It seems like the days go by and I think I have been better about reporting than I actually have been. The truth is, nothing is changing from the last 2.5 months. I went off chemotherapy, have been working on my general health, and will see the oncologist in a couple of weeks to receive the next “plan”. We haven’t been silent because we simply…
Finding Our Way Through This Season!
We refer to this time of year as the “Christmas Season.” It begins the night before Thanksgiving and ends the Monday after New Year. It is a stretch of the year when we seem to go from holiday to holiday. Most of us experience this time as a mixed bag. On the one hand there are things we look forward to and enjoy greatly. On the other, most of us have things about the season we dread. How do we…
FAITH TAKES ACTION!
“Blessed is the man who always fears the Lord, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.” (Proverbs 28:14) This Sunday, as we continue to look at the life of Elisha, we will look at 2 Kings 3. My desire is that we can discover that faith isn’t just something you talk about. It’s something you do. Faith is only activated when we act. We have faith in God when we do what he says. Proverbs 28:14 says, “Always…
Evaluate the Circumstances, Then Choose Faith!
“Then Jesus got into the boat and started across the lake with his disciples. Suddenly a terrible storm came up, with waves breaking into the boat. But Jesus was sleeping.” Matthew 8:23-24 (NLT) If you are going to deal with worry and anxiety, the first thing you have to do is face reality. In Matthew 8 we see the reality of the situation that Jesus and the disciples faced. As they went through the storm it shows us the reality…
Do You Need Help?
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. 2 Corinthians 3:5 As we have studied 1 John on Sunday mornings we have learned that we are called to love one another. John says this over and over again. However there are some times when this is a difficult thing to do and the only way we will fulfill God’s plan for our life is to rely on God’s strength. And…
Walk in the Light!
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.” (1 John 1:7) We will begin a new series this Sunday. We will look at the Book of 1 John. As I read at God’s Word, it’s like spiritual nutrition. 1 John is a small portion meal to be enjoyed slowly. The contents of the book are to be…
Which Prayer Should You Pray?
“Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way. She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them.” Hosea 2:6–7 When Gomer, the Old Testament prophet Hosea’s wife, continued to chase after other lovers, God placed a hedge of thorns around her, keeping her from finding adulterous relationships and eventually driving her back to her husband. Job, on the…
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