Christmas is here! Gifts will be shared! But the first and greatest gift was Jesus Christ. John 3:16 is our reminder of what the First Gift was all about—God’s unconditional love. Merry Christmas!
– Pastor Marlin Betts
Christmas Program on Sunday
We invite all of you to our annual Christmas program this Sunday, December 15, beginning at 10 a.m. We will be reminded that the real gift of Christmas is Jesus Christ!
– Pastor Marlin Betts
Advent Week 2
Advent, the season of waiting, the time of preparation. But when we look around, we see hunger, we hear anger, we feel helpless. What is God going to do about our world? He already did it! He loved the world! He sent Jesus! He saved you!
– Pastor Marlin Betts
Entering Advent
We hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving and are looking forward to the Advent season, anticipating the arrival of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Our youth will help lead in worship this Sunday, the first Sunday of Advent. Come and worship!
– Pastor Marlin Betts
The Gift of Eternal Life
Someone said that when he got to Heaven there would be three surprises: who was there, who wasn’t there, and that he was there. This Sunday we will look at God’s gift of eternal life, and when it really begins.
– Pastor Marlin Betts
The First Result of Love
The Bible is very clear that life is a choice and there are only two options: God or Satan, good or evil, truth or lie, light or darkness, salvation or sin. John 3:16 makes the choice clear as well: perish or life. Every person has made a choice between the two options. But some may want to change and choose Jesus.
– Pastor Marlin Betts
Pastor Appreciation Meal
Continuation of John 3:16
If you could change a word or two in John 3:16, what would you change? Well, there is one word I would sometimes like to change. Yet if I changed it, it would destroy the whole meaning. I will share that word with you this Sunday.
– Pastor Marlin Betts
Worldliness
I grew up hearing about “worldliness.” If I recall correctly, worldliness was mostly a warning against abandoning traditional dress codes, playing cards, and going to bowling alleys because “they serve alcohol there.” Today I am so overwhelmed by a world full of terrible sins, that those issues of yesterday seem trivial. And so I wonder, what did Jesus mean when He said: “For God so loved THE WORLD….”
- Pastor Marlin Betts