“One of these years I’ll get to vote in an election that won’t be the most important of my lifetime.” – Anonymous Adapted from an essay written in 2016 As we approach voting for a president this fall, consider the long and short of things. Look at what Paul tells people about marriage in I Cor. 7:29-31: But this I say, brethren, the…

Lessons from the life of Saul of First Samuel See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God – that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble and by it many be defiled. – Hebrews 12:15 A Brief Summary of King Saul and His Bitterness The people of Israel wanted a human king and God gave them…

We have resumed our Sunday Service at 9:00 am with Sunday School following. Below is how we plan to conduct ourselves as a church. We seek to worship our Lord as He is worthy, faithfully, in spirit and in truth, in season and in out.  Regarding meeting time and our building We will meet at 9:00 a.m. for our church service with Sunday…

Novel corona, perennial issue. That issue is, we are all headed toward death. Death is the most final state any living human can enter, though we know there is life after death for some, and eternal dying after death for others. Our culture has forgotten our frailty. Or, it’s not so much that society has forgotten it, so much as people have done a…

By Pastor Tedd Mathis Let me begin by addressing the common idea, “You can’t legislate morality.” Here’s the truth: Not only is morality supposed to be legislated, it always is. The issue is whose morality. According to the Bible, there are three permanent institutions God has ordained to uphold or establish laws and apply them to others. The home: Parents are to…

Part four of a series —  By Pastor Tedd Mathis Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 O My people! Their oppressors are children, and women rule over them. O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray and confuse the direction of your paths.   — Isaiah 3:12 In this essay I want to show you the connection between the ordaining of women as pastors…

Part three of a series —  By Pastor Tedd Mathis Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles… You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst… Do you…

Part two of a series —  By Pastor Tedd Mathis Part 1 | Part 3 | Part 4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed…ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. – Jude 4 From last month’s installment: Today there are two prevailing camps that want you to believe one can be gay…

Part one of a series —  By Pastor Tedd Mathis Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 I’m addressing this topic because the godless assumption behind the idea of gay Christianity inundates us today. My prayer is you read this in accordance with Colossians 2:8 – See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according…

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths. – Proverbs 3:5,6 Below are a few memories of my education in the school of Proverbs 3:5,6. My schooling is far from over but I’m far enough along to have some sense of what I’ve…