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Dear Church Family, Last Sunday Husbandless, childless, and with no means of provision, Ruth returns with Naomi to a foreign land. She will put her lot in with the God of Israel and seek refuge [...]

Dear Church Family, Last Sunday Hardship always bring with it an opportunity and a danger, an invitation to grow or to shrink. Last week in Ruth 1:6-22, we saw three women respond to incredible hardship [...]

Dear Church Family, Last Sunday Last week Pastor Chuck preached from Matthew 18:15-20. In these verses, Jesus calls the church to take an active role in the discipleship and discipline of its members. We are [...]

Last Sunday We are three weeks into our series, Jesus on Church. So far we’ve seen from the gospel of Matthew that the church is a distinct people with kingdom values who rightly confess the [...]

Dear Church Family, Last Sunday In Matthew 5-7, Jesus gives his most famous sermon in which he describes the kind of people that belong to his kingdom. They are a distinct people—a people who stand [...]

Dear Church Family, Last Sunday It was great to have Pastor Chuck back with us after his 4-week sabbatical of study, planning, and rest. Last Sunday he preached on Psalm 73, which raised the question—what [...]

Dear Church Family, Last Sunday Psalm 23 is a familiar passage to many of us, but one packed full of profound and comforting truth. Last Sunday, Nick Fryberger helped us to see that Psalm 23 [...]

Dear Church Family, Last Sunday It’s hard to imagine what the people of Israel must have felt after being taken as captives to Babylon, removed from everything they knew and loved. We caught a small [...]

Dear Church Family, Last Sunday The search for happiness is universal, but how many people actually find it? Last week we heard the secret to happiness from Psalm 1: “Happy is the man who walks [...]

Dear Church Family, Last Sunday What is God’s will for my life? Have you ever asked yourself that question? Jesus’ disciples wrestled with that question in last week’s passage from John 21:1-14. They had spent [...]