Posts from 2016
Pastor’s Note: Thankful for You
By rights, every Christmas ever celebrated should have begun with a worship service. It’s literally hard to imagine something more appropriate. With Christmas now long buried under commercialism, this year we have the opportunity to vote with our feet against the trivializing of the One who is genuinely glorious, high, and noble. Life in Christ requires intentionality:…
Angels We Have Heard on High | Thou Dost Reign on High
Pastor’s Note: Pagan Christmas
• Years ago, riding a train across Switzerland (some of you know this story), I met a gracious woman who was returning home from a Bible study. She invited me to stay a few days with her family in a small alpine village. As God would have it, I was there the day she and her mother met with the pastor of their decreasingly-biblical church to tell him they were leaving. It…
Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus | Thou Who Wast Rich
Pastor’s Note: The Doctor
• As Julie mentioned in announcements, the president of Covenant College, Derek Halvorson, will be with us Sunday. If you are in high school, or have kids in high school, you’ll want to come early enough to catch announcements. You’ll also have a chance to meet Dr. Halvorson between services. • I think I’ve mentioned a couple times that I’m reading Ian Murray’s one-volume…
O Come, All Ye Faithful | Good Christian Men, Rejoice
Joy to the World | Hark! The Herald | Let All Mortal Flesh
Pastor’s Note: The Last Full Measure of Devotion
• Join us for the Thanksgiving service this evening at 7:00. Be the one-in-ten who turns back to give thanks. Also, remember this coming Sunday is our JOINT SERVICE at 10:00a and, if you would, pass word along to anyone you may suspect is unaware. Thanks. • In a mailer on behalf of persecuted…