WHAT SACRIFICES REMAIN?

by | Aug 23, 2016

Hebrews 13: 11 The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. 12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. 13 Let us, then, go...

MYF Deschutes Campout 2016

by | Aug 17, 2016

MYF Campout at Deschutes Canyon: July 2016 The MYF (Harrison and Emma Gingerich, Camryn and Jayce Roth, Tristan Oakes and Jared Oyer) had a great campout in the beautiful Deschutes wilderness, July 15-17 with Craig and Jana; We thought about how God is present with...

TIME TO TAME THE CHURCH?

by | Aug 2, 2016

Does the Gospel need to be “tamed?” Does Christianity need to bend the knee to post-modernity and worship at the altar of tolerance and progressivism as the only alternative to religious terrorism? That is what Dr. Gary Gutting, professor of philosophy at The...

ALL KINDS OF GREED

by | Aug 2, 2016

LUKE 12: 13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” 14 Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” 15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed;...

I COULD HAVE BEEN THE THIRTEENTH

by | Jul 12, 2016

Luke 9: 51 As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. 52 And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; 53 but the people there did not welcome him, because he was...

THE FOLLOWING IS A PAID POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT…..

by | Jul 7, 2016

…..from Pastor Mathew Swora, of Zion Mennonite Church, paid for through the time he put into writing this essay (about $3.75 worth). It is political in that it has to do with our public lives, as well as our personal ones. Any other similarity to the upcoming...