This Sunday Pastor Tim began a new series on the Parables of Jesus. After a brief introduction on parables, he led us through a study of Luke 6:36-50 and the parable of the two debtors, asking his listeners, "Who would love the most?" What began as a dinner hosted by a pharisee to investigate Jesus, became an investigation of the heart of the Pharisee -- and each of us!

Scott Brubaker presents part two of his messages on holiness. This week's sermon is based on Hebrews 10:14 whereby believers become progressively, and imperfectly more and more like Christ in the sanctification process as they mature as they mature in their faith.  

This week, Scott Brubaker, one of church elders, taught about the all sufficient sacrifice of Jesus in full and final payment for the sin of the world, applied to individuals by grace, through faith wherein believers have been credited ‘once for all’  with the perfect holiness of Christ from God’s point of view.

God never ceases to expand who we think He is and what we think He is going to do. The perfect example of that is when we consider the holy God, transcendent and separate from all creation, offended by the sin of mankind,  and He still wants a relationship with man. He still wants his creation to know Him and to experience His love and mercy and benevolence. But it goes even further! God accomplishes this through the sacrifice of His own Son!!

As we continue our series on the holiness of God, this week Pastor Tim teaches on the relationship between God's holiness and the reality of hell. Many believe that hell is extreme and too harsh for a loving God, but they fail to consider that God is not only loving, but pure and utterly holy and sin is an offense to his holiness that demands punishment in keeping with the crime. Hell is that punishment. 

How do you convey matters so weighty and important as the holiness of God and the magnitude of our sin? Today, Pastor Tim took on that task describing the chasm that our sin created between mankind and our Creator and why that has to be. 

This morning we had the pleasure of hearing how God called Mary Montagnon into a relationship with himself.  Mary's honesty and humility is moving to those who hear her story. Please take a moment to hear Mary talk about her walk with God. 

Today, Pastor Tim began a new series on the holiness of God by defining what it means to be holy and an encouragement to us to pursue holiness at all costs. 

The book of Joshua provides an outline that we can use to look backwards at our walk with God so that we can find the confidence we need to move forward into the new year!

As we read through Luke 1, we find two examples of faith in Mary and Zacharias. One didn't believe God and the other did. Which are you? How easily and often do you believe in God's promises and character?