What Is Church For?What are we doing when we go to church?This is the question that has animated our current sermon series. In the first sermon, we answered the question by looking at where we are when we come to church. In the second sermon, we did the same by observing who was present at the hill of the Lord. But this week, as we take another step toward understanding the business of Sunday, we ...

This is a bulletin.When football legend Vince Lombardi arrived in Green Bay to coach the Packers, he started with a simple statement: “This is football.” For reasons that go beyond our interest today, we can appreciate Lombardi’s back-to-basics approach, and how it forged the foundation of a football dynasty that would lead to multiple champions and countless hall-of-famers. And all of this, becau...

The ordering of worship is known as liturgy, and for the next few weeks, our church is going to examine the Bible to see what it says about worship and how to order our services according to God’s revealed will. ...

If your week has been like mine, many of your plans were interrupted by last week’s storm and you’ve spent a fair amount of time shoveling. In Psalm 147:16-17, the psalmist writes “He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes. He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before this cold?” Weather events like this are humbling as we see the power of God and all plans are b...