This Sunday morning, our brother from FBC of Lapeer, Pastor Moses fills in for Pastor Martin. His message is from Psalm 19 and on the greatness of God’s glory.

Our guest speaker, Jansen Lorch is a missionary to Chile and we are delighted to have him preach the Word of God. His passage is on Ephesians 4 and what church growth should look like.

Pastor Martin continues his series through 1 Corinthians. This afternoon he is looking at the first 12 verses.

This Sunday, we turn to Jesus’s final words in the “Bread of Life Discourse” in John 6:52–59. This is a greatly debated and misunderstood passage of Scripture. Pastor shows us that Jesus was talking about faith in his sacrifice for sin, not the Lord’s Supper, in these verses. Our Savior’s sacrifice on the cross is what the believer truly does feed upon.

This afternoon, Pastor Martin looks at the first few verses of chapter 14 and how the Apostle Paul emphasizes spiritual gifts for the benefit of corporate worship.

This Sunday, in John 6 Jesus reiterates his offer of salvation to the grumbling Jews. Their grumbling and refusal to come to Christ showed they were not the objects of divine grace they thought they were. Their grumbling and unbelief did not change the mission of what Jesus came to do, which was to give himself as a sacrifice for sin so to provide eternal life to all who believed in him.

This Sunday, Pastor Martin returns to the Gospel of John, which happens to be itself a superb “Christmas” text. Jesus is the one who has come down from heaven. Are we those taught of God, who believe, or are we those who grumble and stumble at the humility of the Christ God has sent?

This Sunday, Pastor Martin’s message will again focus on the incarnation by looking at the Old Testament prophecies concerning the birth of the Messiah. We will look at Isaiah 7:14 in the context of Isaiah 7 and 8. This prophecy is explicitly cited by Matthew in his Gospel, and lies behind the assumptions of the Gospels of Luke and John: Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

The next several Sundays of Christmas Advent, Pastor will focus his sermons on prophecies of the Messiah. This Sunday, he is preaching on Micah 5, “O Little Town of Bethlehem.”

In the afternoon message, Pastor Martin continues to work his way through the chapter of 1 Corinthians 13.