Personal Worship (Page 20)

Happy Christmas Eve! If you are able to attend, we invite you to either the 4PM or 6PM candlelight service this evening. We have all you need to know about parking and childcare on our Christas Eve page. Just tap or click on the graphic above. If you can’t be with us in person, consider…

Greetings, Saints at Rio! From out here in Vacationland, it’s Mark Lautenschlager filling in for Ryan Brasington who is ill this week. Pray for Ryan, if you would. I’m doing my best to channel my inner Brasington today, I hope you find the subject matter as interesting as I did. This…

Hey Church! We have so much to celebrate in worship this weekend! It is our third Sunday in Advent, we will light the Shepherds’ candle to remember how they were told of Jesus’ birth, Tom will preach on the third “Emmanuel Song” from Isaiah 11, we will…

Hey Church! Today’s reflection is on pain. It has been heavy on my mind as of late, so I hope something of my own experience on the subject will engender a timely word of encouragement to some of you who suffer. If this is not written for you, perhaps it is written for your ministry to a friend or neighbor.  We all experience pain in various forms and degrees. For…

Hey Church! This Sunday we will leave the season of Pentecost behind (be honest, who remembered that we were still in Pentecost?) and enter into the four-week season of Advent. The four Sundays preceding Christmas have traditionally been a time when Christians long for Christ’s coming (“advent” means “appearance; arrival; coming”)–both…