Pastor's Corner

"Reaching Forward Together"
Loving God, Loving Each Other, Loving to Share His Story

      Yesterday after Sunday lunch, I had a series of important lessons with my three year old grandson and fifteen month old granddaughter. Elliott, our son, had brought a large ice-cold watermelon for our dessert after lunch. It was a Sugartown Melon and lived up to its name for sweetness. As we sat around the table afterwards, past memories of childhood watermelons rushed to the present. I turned to Lauren, our daughter, and asked if she knew how to "shoot" a watermelon seed. Her puzzled look made me know that I'd neglected teaching my now adult daughter an important lesson: how to shoot watermelon seeds with your fingers. Needing a demonstration, I placed a watermelon seed between my fingers and, after a quick squeeze, sent it sailing across my wife's clean floor. After three successful shots, I decided my grand-kids needed watermelon shooting lessons!
      Seeds and grand-kids in tow, we went outside for further cultural refinement. Whether I taught them anything or not, I thought about how grateful I am that their parents are teaching them the most important lesson: Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so. The Apostle Paul reminded young Timothy of his Biblical heritage: "But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus" (2 Timothy 3:14-15). Parents and grand-parents, please continue teaching our children and teenagers God's eternal principles.

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Read the Bible through in a year!

    Many of our members have chosen to participate in the "Read the Bible Through" project. In one year you too can read the entire Bible. It takes only about 15 to 20 minutes a day. Just think, you can read every word of God's message to us contained in Old and New Testaments. There are no other testaments or books of doctrine that are from God, just the Bible. Make this year the time your life changed! If you would like to view or print the reading schedule, Click here for "Read the Bible Through in a Year.pdf" (76kb)