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Month: December 2025

Mary Had a Little Lamb – Pastor Chris Black

Immediately after the birth of Christ in scripture, the scene shifts to a group of shepherds that were in the same region doing what shepherds do…watching over sheep. The angel of the Lord appears to them and reveals that the greatest event in all of history has just taken place. The angel says the most gracious statement ever heard “for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord”. And over two thousand years later, we comprehend that these are tidings of great joy and they have been to all people. For the crowd that says that the birth of Christ shouldn’t be celebrated…heaven celebrated it!

This is as Far as I’m Going – Pastor Chris Black

Here in the text, we read about a family from Bethlehem who during a famine went to sojourn in the land of Moab. These people were not leaving Israel because they wanted to leave God or they didn’t like the culture there anymore, they left because they thought that’s what they had to do to survive. They spent ten years in Moab and their sons married to Moabite sisters. Naomi’s husband died and so did her two sons leaving the three women widowed. Naomi hears that the Lord has visited his people in the land where she came from in giving them bread and is going back. Her two daughters-in-law at first are of a mind to go with her but after much urging, Orpah kisses her mother-in-law goodbye and turns back to Moab. Ruth on the hand, turns her back on her heritage, her people, and her gods to be with Noami and accept her God as her own.

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For the Glory of God Part 3 – Pastor Chris Black

This is the third message in a series called “For the glory of God”. The phrase “the glory of God” refers to when God can be seen…either his attributes, power or presence. The meaning of life on earth is to glorify God meaning that through our lives, God can be seen. God is glorified in us when are character reflects his character. He is glorified when we do his will – Matthew 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. So God can be glorified in both who we are, and what we do. Sometimes God is glorified in our circumstances. The things that happen around us and to us that we have no control over.