We have our quarterly business meeting this week.  We will gather on Wednesday, October 21, at 6:30 pm in the fellowship building.  I hope that you will be there.  It’s important that we take care of business together.  At our core, we are a congregationally ordered body.  That means that you, the membership, make the decisions.  We do business as a family.  Your voice matters and your vote counts...  Read More

I just finished reading a fascinating book, The AI Apocalypse.  Not “apocalypse” as in the end of the world, but rather an “unveiling.”  The point of the book is that with advances in AI technology a lot is being revealed about us.  I was vaguely familiar with AI but not really.  I’ve used search engines and I’ve played around with Chapgpt, but I don’t swim in those waters.  It’s not something I u...  Read More

Thank you for your input yesterday with your nominations of men to serve our fellowship as deacons.  We have some been blessed by God with gifted, quality men from which to choose.  Over the next few weeks, we will be working through the process seeking to discern the Lord’s will in this matter.  I remind you, we do not “make deacons” we “recognize” them.  We find those the Lord has already given ...  Read More

In Sunday’s worship bulletin (October 4) you will find a deacon nomination form.  You will be given the opportunity to list men whom you feel are qualified and set apart by the Lord to serve our fellowship.  For the last two weeks, we been giving you information and asking you to pray.  Now we are asking for your recommendation.  Who is it the Lord has already given to us as servants?  Again, our ...  Read More

According to the New Testament there are two offices in the local church.  They are pastor and deacon.  Both of these are found in 1 Timothy chapter 3 as the apostle Paul outlines for young Timothy some procedures for establishing the church.  Over the years we have added various offices and ministries to the church that are necessary and vital to the life and well-being of the church but the only...  Read More

It’s hard to imagine it has been 25 years.  The images are so fresh, so vivid in my mind.  When I close my eyes, I can still smell the stench of the fire, dust and who knows what, filling the air.  I was standing at ground zero in New York, one month after the attack on the World Trade Center.  I was there as a Tulsa County Sherriff’s chaplain serving through the Port Authority Police Department. ...  Read More