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Happy or Blessed?
I recently celebrated my 45th birthday. Halfway to 90! I enjoyed the annual reminder of the passing of time – a reminder to redeem the time and use it for God’s glory. On my birthday, many people wished me “happy&rdquo...
Active Worship
Dear Church Family, I started attending First Christian Church in the late spring of 2012. I told myself I would be a pew sitter and did so for 3 or so years before I started to worship here. I remember a knock at my back door. It was the...
Understanding the Call to Serve
One of the last gifts that I gave my daughter, before she started her own story in the world, remains at my house today. It walks around, when it wants to, in the shell of a 25-pound French Bulldog named Cooper. In fact, he is a very demanding...
Supporting Church Safety & Security
Setting aside a preacher who don’t know “Come Here from Sick’em” about the Bible and a personal relationship with Jesus, there are probably three things that turn people away from a church. They are: 1) unkept restrooms...
Hope and Trust in Christ
Dear Church Family, I came across a short story about a man named Henry Stanley. Henry Morton Stanley was born on January 28, 1841, and passed away on May 10, 1904. Stanley was a Welsh-American known as an explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial...