Pastor’s Notes (Page 19)

• In the west, as distractions have increased and discretionary time has decreased, people skip worship. For most of us, all sorts of things qualify as sufficient reasons to skip worship, but worship itself hardly ever qualifies as a reason to skip all those other distractions. Oddly enough, if we were under persecution, those of us who had made the decision to continue…

We will have our next combined worship service on Sunday, April 10th beginning at 9:30a. We will meet at the Pickering Barn (1730 NW 10th Ave NW Issaquah). Please join us!

• Men’s ministry Saturday Morning at 8:00. It’s time we dealt more forthrightly with all this: the average age for viewing porn in America is 10. In churches, it’s estimated that 40% of men are viewing porn.

Come, gather with our church in worship of our Lord’s sacrifice. Our Good Friday Tenebrae service begins on March 25th at 7p wherein we reflect on the gracious work of the Lord on the cross.

Our Women’s Bible Study will work through Nancy Guthrie’s third book, Son of David which is part of her series on Seeing Jesus in the Old Testament. This study will run from mid-March through May. Please contact Sylvia Winans for more information. Copies of the book may be purchased for $8 and are available at the book table.

» “…taking part in the relief of the saints— and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us” 2 Cor 8:4-5. »  I am so grateful and encouraged by your response to the need at the Stachofsky’s. There were plenty of barriers to this: they live in Duval, the particular challenges they face are unfamiliar to most…

Several weeks ago one of our members, Julie Bilbro, returned from her trip to SE Asia. There she had the joy and pleasure of visiting with our newest missionary family which is engaged in the strategic ministry of translating the Scriptures. The people whom they serve have never before had the Scriptures in their mother tongue. What a glorious work! Join us for dessert at…

• Our annual meeting creates a space to speak to things that have no other venue: the associate pastor search, strategic thinking about finances, new missionaries, current initiatives in the congregation, overall vision for our character and ministries. The meeting will start around 10:00 am this Sunday and run for about 45 minutes. This is your church. Please join us.

• Men’s Ministry: This Saturday morning Garrett Grigas, son of Glen and Kris, will tell his story of abandoning Christ only to find out that Christ had not abandoned him. It’s an account filled with honesty and hope. Join us at 8:00 am for breakfast and fellowship, then Garrett’s journey at 9:00.

• My generation and, if you’re under 40, your generation especially, is far more eager to terminally analyze the problem than embrace the answer. Your generation’s tendencies (sadly) are a by-product of my generation — the psychologized generation — and connected to the Pandora’s Box that Freud opened in the generation before mine. We have a kind of fascination with what…