Your Most Important Relationship
Text: John 10:10b and 17:3 How you feel about life often boils down to how you feel about your relationships. We are designed for relationships. When our relationships are balanced and healthy, life is good. But, too often, we ignore the most important relationship – our spiritual connection with God. I. You were created in…
Read MoreCulture Grip
Published 11-11-2015 Stephen C. Meyer’s interview series with John Ankerberg on the JAShow in July and August presented a conceptual and descriptive outline of the broad subject of popular evolutionary theory birthed by Charles Darwin. Meyer is primarily an advocate of the Intelligent Design paradigm. He reviewed the evolutionary proposal that earth life has progressed…
Read MoreBe Wise About Your Response to Grace
Message, Tim LaFleur November 1, 2015 If you have your copy of the Word of God, turn to the book of Ephesians if you would. And you will remember, during these days we have been talking about being wise; seeing things from God’s viewpoint so that we can apply it to real-life situations so that…
Read MoreRedefining Miracles
Miracles create an interesting study in the Bible and apologetics in general. Most often, when the word “miracle” is mentioned in the Bible, the first thought is the miracles of Jesus – such as his turning water into wine, healing the sick and lame, raising the dead, and exorcising demons. However, miracles are woven into…
Read MoreBe Wise About Selecting a New Pastor
Tim LaFleur, Message November 8, 2015 If you have your copy of the Word of God, turn if you would to the book of I Peter and Chapter 5. The book of I Peter and Chapter 5. During these days we have been talking about godly wisdom. And so, what I want to talk to…
Read MoreHard Problem of Consciousness
Published 11-5-2015 Philosopher/cognitive scientist David J. Chalmers formulated an expression to characterize our quest for knowledge of consciousness. In 1996 he called it “the hard problem.” The term has since become associated with the scientific subject of consciousness. Consciousness is indeed a “hard” problem. Chalmers claimed that “Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the…
Read MoreBe Wise About Worship
Tim LaFleur October 4, 2015 Message, Tim LaFleur, Discipleship Pastor Amen. Good morning. Aren’t you grateful for our choir and orchestra. Thank Abby as well. Lets give the Lord a hand. Praise the Lord. Sometimes I think when I say lets give the Lord a hand, I am thinking to myself, lets give the Lord…
Read MoreBasis of Consciousness
Published 10-30-2015 When our neighborhood birds decided to engage in high-spirited, ebullient behavior, our thoughts wandered toward, “What caused this sudden display?” Description of the behavior is easy; explanation is complex and difficult. Our previous post on “Exuberant Wildlife” described the collective antics of thirteen different bird species in the woods behind our home one…
Read MoreBe Wise in your Giving
Tim LaFleur, Discipleship Pastor October 25, 2015 If you have your copy of the Word of God, turn if you would to the book of John and Chapter 1. The book of John and Chapter 1. While you are turning there, let me remind you that during these days we have been talking about…
Read MoreDo you know five good reasons for believing God exists?
Yes, there are people who claim to believe in God who do not live consistently with this belief. However, this does not erase the power of the many other people who have believed in the God of the Bible and whose lives have turned from an opponent of the Christian faith to a person willing…
Read More