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Weekly Updates
New Year – 2026
Weekly Update – January 1st, 2026 All week I was thinking about ways that I can encourage us as a church to approach the new year. Should there be some major goal that we pursue? Should there be a specific discipline that we should dive in to? Or perhaps we should simply reflect upon the past year? I think addressing all of these questions are good and helpful, but I think even more so, we should simply strive for consistency…
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
In March of 1863, 18-year-old Charles Appleton Longfellow walked out of his family’s house on Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts to board a train bound for Washington, D.C. He traveled over 400 miles across the eastern seaboard to join President Lincoln’s Union army to fight in the Civil War. Charles was the oldest of six children born to Fannie and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. That name Henry Wadsworth Longfellow might sound familiar to you. He was a famous poet who is still…
The Glory of Christmas
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This is how the Bible starts the creation story. Then we read that from chaos God brought order and out of darkness God created light. Ultimately it was out of nothing that God brought forth something. But as great and majestic as all of this is, God’s purposes in creation were much bigger than simply filling the earth with stuff. In Genesis 1:26 God said, “Let us make man in…
Missionary Biographies
As we continue to remember this month’s focus on international missions, I want to take this opportunity to explain the benefit of learning about missionaries from the past. As Hebrews 12:1 says, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.” Though this passage is referring to Hebrews 11 and the…
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