Welcome! This morning we gather together as a community of faith to worship Jesus Christ our risen Savior. Thanks for joining us!  This is the way it's going to go: we are going to lift our voices and we are going to open our hearts.  Jesus Christ...

Today is Palm Sunday, a day in which Christians remember the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem the week before His death and resurrection (Matt. 21:1-11).  Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week which concludes on Easter Sunday.  The...

A pastoral letter:

I'm changing it up a bit this week.  Instead of the usual sermon notes, summarizing the main points of the sermon, I want to write a short pastoral letter.  I want to share my heart with you.  I pray God will use this little letter...

The Sweet and the Sour The first part of Revelations 11 (verses 1-14) has been called the most difficult passage to interpret in the whole book.  Wow!  Considering the whole book is a challenge, that's really saying something.  It's difficult for...

Unusual Intermission: A Giant Angel and a Little Edible ScrollIn the best sense of the word, the book of Revelation is unusual. The sights and sounds John recorded stretch our imagination and demand our attention. The visions are so intense they're...

Sounding the AlarmIn biblical times, they used a trumpet to sound the alarm.  It was the early warning system of the ancient world.  Today we have elaborate systems of sirens wired to a central emergency command center.  Back then they just pulled out...

Silence in HeavenIn Revelation chapter 8 we come to a dramatic pause in the action that is taking place in the Heavenly Throne Room.  The Lamb who was worthy to open the first six seals of the scroll now opens the seventh and final seal, and all of...

Who Can Stand?Revelation chapter 7 is known as an "interlude" chapter.  The flow of the book is interrupted to give us a special thematic message.  There are several chapters like this in Revelation and they are a key to its profound meaning for our...

Putting Things in PerspectiveRevelation 6 contains one of the most well know pictures in the whole bible, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.  These four riders accompany are introduced with the opening of the first seal of the scroll that we saw in...

We Worship to Say "Yes" to the Reality of GodWorship is an act of faith in which we say "yes" to the reality of God.  That's why we gather together as believers.  We have come to say "yes" to God.  We open our bibles and we open our hearts.  We take...