On My Mind...
Can you believe we are days away from 2026? I don’t see how that’s possible. 2025 has been a good year. We’ve added some new folks to the church, some of us have added to our families, we’ve also said, “Good bye” to some we love. That’s life. I’m not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, but I can tell you 2026 will bring the unexpected, the unwanted and the despised. I know that because we live in a fallen world. A world corrupted by sin. Yet, we do not despair because of the Gospel, because of the love and care of our Sovereign God. Because of Christ, our future is bright.
As we anticipate this new year, I want to encourage you to make the year count. Determine that you will take it upon yourself to seek to do spiritual good to those around you. Make it a point to share the gospel in word and deed. Invest your life in one or two others. Find someone who knows more of the gospel and about the things of God and get to know them and learn from them. Find one or two who are not as far along as you, and build a relationship with them that you might impart some of what you have learned. This is what it means to live in relationship, in covenant with one another. This is life in the Church.
My prayer for you this year is that, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:14-19).
Don’t forget our annual New Year’s Day Breakfast. We will be serving from 8:00 – 10:30 am on the first. Bring a friend or two or three and enjoy time together around the table. There is no cost and you will be glad you came.
We made copies of the proposed 2026 budget available on Sunday and we will be voting on the proposed budget on Sunday morning January 11, following the morning worship service.
I’m looking forward to worshiping with you and your family, as we gather this Sunday. Have a blessed week, and I’ll see you Sunday.
Rod
As we anticipate this new year, I want to encourage you to make the year count. Determine that you will take it upon yourself to seek to do spiritual good to those around you. Make it a point to share the gospel in word and deed. Invest your life in one or two others. Find someone who knows more of the gospel and about the things of God and get to know them and learn from them. Find one or two who are not as far along as you, and build a relationship with them that you might impart some of what you have learned. This is what it means to live in relationship, in covenant with one another. This is life in the Church.
My prayer for you this year is that, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:14-19).
Don’t forget our annual New Year’s Day Breakfast. We will be serving from 8:00 – 10:30 am on the first. Bring a friend or two or three and enjoy time together around the table. There is no cost and you will be glad you came.
We made copies of the proposed 2026 budget available on Sunday and we will be voting on the proposed budget on Sunday morning January 11, following the morning worship service.
I’m looking forward to worshiping with you and your family, as we gather this Sunday. Have a blessed week, and I’ll see you Sunday.
Rod