9.2.21 Newsletter
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4.25.21 News and Bulletin
News / Event Information · Get Your Picture Taken: Gina Thompson will be taking pictures in the left-hand side Sunday School room, near the sanctuary, for a new photo directory. This will take place Sundays before or after church during the month of May — except Mother’s Day (May 9th). Please sign up on the Google…
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4.18.21 Church News & Pastor Balmer’s Bulletin
News / Event Information · Get Your Picture Taken: Gina Thompson will be taking pictures in the left-hand side Sunday School room, near the sanctuary, for a new photo directory. This will take place Sundays before or after church during the month of May — except Mother’s Day (May 9th). Please contact Gina to sign up…
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Pastor Balmer’s Bulletin 4/8/2021
Psalm 133:1 was painted on my fraternity’s dormitory stairwell: “How Good and Pleasant it is when Brothers Dwell Together in Unity.” I thought about that verse a lot, as I passed it. Especially if guys in the house were fighting! Now the full version, in another translation, is on a poster in my office. “Look…
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Easter Is Not for Springtime, but All Time
Pastor Balmer’s Bulletin: Easter Is Not for Springtime, but All Time For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only…
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It’s not a list!
That’s what the late preacher Fred Craddock bellowed when he was preaching on the end of Paul’s letter to the Romans. Romans 16 ends with a series of instructions: “…Greet Mary, who worked hard for you, Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the…
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The Friar’s Fragment
One of the essential ministries of the church is to help its members set their spiritual gifts free. There is a wide variety of gifts within the church, and a part of the charge which the church has is to help set these gifts free in people. How are we going to run the church?…
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Finished?
From the Pastor… Finished? To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. —…
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Moving Forward
From the Pastor… Moving Forward I am delighted that we can resume getting together for worship! Yes, it’s wise to refrain from handshakes and hugs, etc., but just being in the same room (even with face masks, if desired) will be a pleasure. – I have missed you! These past Sundays…
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That’s Stupid!
From the Pastor… “That’s Stupid !” There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. — Will Rogers Life is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid. — Unknown Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always…