Javier’s Testimony

The elders wanted to share Javier’s testimony.  Last Sunday we welcomed Javier as a member of our church. Good morning church, I’m also going to be leaving next week to college so this is my last week here. My name is Javier Alexis Maldonado Sanchez, and I...

Praying with David from Psalm 27 – Part 1

Psalm 27 is one of the great gifts to the church. In this Psalm, we learn how to pray. First, prayer sharpens our vision. David wrote in verse 1, “The LORD is my light.” We often pray because we feel we are in the dark. “Lord, what should I do, what should I think,...

We need not fear

John Newton had a practice of writing a hymn to go along with the text for his Sunday morning sermon. (…which, by the way, is how he came to write “Amazing Grace”—not at the moment of his conversion on the deck of his storm-tossed ship, as the inspiring legend goes,...

“Mommy, I’m Scared!”

How well I remember the nights when, more often than not, some little person in our house would cry those words out into the darkness. When we asked for specifics, it might be a dragon or the shadows on the wall or the dark place in the corner. It was anything and...