HOMECOMING & REVIVAL Guest Speaker: Dr. Thomas G. Ewald Until his retirement in 2010, Tom Ewald was a college and seminary professor of psychology, pastoral counseling, theology, and Bible survey for 45 years. He was Dean of Students and chairman of the disciplinary committee of Lincoln Christian University for over 30 years. He has an… Read More »

In the gospel of Luke, chapter 18, verses 9 – 14, Jesus shares a parable emphasizing the importance of humility before God. It may be easy for Christians to feel like the Pharisee, who was so enthused with how good he was. It’s easy to think we are better than we are because of our… Read More »

We had a good time last evening at the church building. Some of us met for fellowship, snacks and a game of Bible Pictionary. We learned that the children are better at drawing and guessing drawings than we adults, lol. Thanks to Dawn for coordinating our evening!

In Matthew chapter 4, Jesus is shown being tempted by Satan: first by tempting Him to turn stones into bread because He had been fasting for 40 days and was very weak, second by tempting Him to jump off the highest point of the temple to prove who He was and third, tempting Him to… Read More »

Matt 28:18-20 “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am… Read More »

Matthew 19:4-6 4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one.… Read More »

According to God’s word in Proverbs 22:15, Folly is bound up in the heart of a child. The verse goes on stating that discipline will drive folly far from him. God also said in Proverbs 22:6: Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from… Read More »

In the Bible, the apostle Paul referred frequently to our “sinful nature,” that is, our nature that is corrupted by sin. We develop evil desires (desires that go against God’s design for us) and expect it to work out fine, but ultimately it doesn’t. In the book of James we learn that our sinful desires… Read More »

In 1981, my favorite rock group, the Kinks, released a social commentary song entitled, “Give the People What They Want.” Part of the lyrics were “give them lots of sex, perversion and rape, give them lots of violence and plenty to hate.” The song is just as relevant today. These things are still in our… Read More »

It’s always interesting to discover the many reasons for what people think and do. Our tendency is to make them excuses for our thoughts and behavior. There is, however, no excuse for any sin, no matter the reason. That’s why repenting of our sin and turning to Christ is so important. He wants to forgive… Read More »