This helpful and challenging message was presented by Caleb Lynch, a long-time friend of Pastor Joe. He walked through a familiar story and challenged us to consider it from a not-so-common perspective.

Pastor Joe preached this special sermon to help prepare our hearts for offering true Thanksgiving to God over the holiday set aside for just this purpose. Psalm 145 calls us to: (1) Give thanks for God's GREATNESS; (2) Give thanks for God's GOODNESS; (3) Give thanks for God's POWER; and (4) Give thanks for God's KINDNESS. What a fitting meditation for this time of year!

In this Quiet Time Meditation, Pastor Joe preached a sermon that his own soul needed as we enter the rapidly approaching Thanksgiving season. His prayer is that others may benefit and be challenged by these truths as well.

In this Quiet Time Meditation, Pastor Joe revisited a text in which our Lord makes clear the fact that He "came not to call the righteous, but sinners." And, if we are to be like our Lord, we must love sinners too.

This was the next sermon in our regular Sunday series from Genesis. It was a sermon entitled "Man's Blood" (from Genesis 9:5-6) that called us to wrestle hard with some deep questions about the sanctity of human life. The two big ideas in the text were these... (1) The RECKONING and (2) The REASON.

In this Quiet Time Meditation, Pastor Joe zeroed in on the final verses of the Sermon on the Mount and reminded us that: (1) HEARING is not OBEYING, and (2) AMAZEMENT is not CONVERSION. In the end, we saw that: We can only work out our on salvation as God works in us both to want and to do what pleases Him.

This was the next sermon in our regular Sunday series from Genesis. It was a sermon entitled "Covenant Promises" (from Genesis 8:20-9:17) that called us to wrestle with three big ideas... (1) A Striking CONTRAST, (2) A Repeated COMMAND, (3) A Sobering CORRECTIVE, and (4) A Reminder of the COVENANT. At the end of the day, the goal was to encourage us all with the truth that: We serve the sovereign One Who still reigns, Who still remembers, and Who is still keeping every word of every promise He has ever made!

In this Quiet Time Meditation, Pastor Joe finished his challenge for us to wrestle hard with some of the most misused and abused words in Scripture: "Judge not."

As Pastor Joe was away and in light of the upcoming mid-term elections, Mr. David Barnhart presented a message entitled "Honoring God in a Political World" (from 1 Peter 3:13-17).

In this Quiet Time Meditation, Pastor Joe challenged us to wrestle hard with some of the most misused and abused words in Scripture: "Judge not."