Posts from January 2019

Winter: Is there any good in this most difficult season?

By Desiree Glass “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” —Genesis 8:22 Gray skies cast its gloom over me and frigid temperatures kept me captive inside my own home. The landscape, dead and devoid of any color except brown, caused me to question why anyone would like winter.…

Selfless: Extravagant in Generosity

Series: SELFLESS Message: Extravagant in Generosity Text(s): Matthew 16:24, Proverbs 21:26, Haggai 1:6, Deuteronomy 28:2, 5, Luke 6:38, Proverbs 3:9-10, Exodus 13:2,13, Malachi 3:7-12 Pastor Tom Cogle Sunday, January 27, 2019 All day long [the lazy and selfish] craves and craves, but the righteous gives and does not hold back. Proverbs 21:26 ESV THREE MINDSETS ABOUT GENEROSITY 1. THE BAG: THERE IS…

Selfless: Faithful in Service

Series: SELFLESS Message: Faithful in Service Text(s): Matthew 23:11, Acts 9:36, 1 Samuel 17:17-18, Luke 19:31, John 13:4-5 Pastor Tom Cogle Sunday, January 20, 2019 What would others say you are always doing? G – O – A – T (Greatest Of All Time) Matthew 23:11 The greatest among you will be your servant. (Not your GOAT!) I am a servant of…

Lifting Weights: How is being weak a good thing?

By Desiree Glass That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. —2 Corinthians 12:10 Side lateral raises. Even hearing those three words brings pain, let alone actually doing them. Last February I started an exercise program that involves toning with hand weights three…

Selfless: Bold in Witness

Series: Selfless Title: Bold in Witness Text: Acts 4:12-13, 29 Pastor Tom Cogle Sunday, January, 6, 2018 If you aim at nothing you will hit it every time! But God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to do. Many people think God exists for them when in reality,…