December 4, 2023 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, December 4. This past weekend, our choir and bells got to be in a parade! Each year, on the first Saturday of December, our town has a nighttime lighted Christmas parade. Once again, hundreds of friends from the community gathered at our historic courthouse square to kick off the holidays. It was fun!
 

November 30, 2023 - Good Morning! It's Thursday, November 30.

Today, on the threshold of December, we focus on the nativity characters who journeyed the farthest to see the Christ Child. This morning we consider the kings, the wise men, the magi.

The magi are only mentioned in the 2nd chapter of Matthew. The verse, perhaps, that sums up who they were and what they did is Matthew 2:11 -

November 28, 2023 - Good Morning! It's Tuesday, November 28.

On this day, in 1974, John Lennon performed for a sold-out crowd at New York City's Madison Square Garden. That's not very surprising - Lennon was a natural born performer. What is surprising, astounding really, is the fact that this would be his last public performance. In 1980, a psychotic fan ended his life. But for the last six years of his life, he didn't do the thing that he was born to do, he didn't share his music with the world.

November 22, 2023 - Good Morning! It's Wednesday, November 22.

Our focus this morning is thankfulness, and in almost every one of the Apostle Paul's letters he takes the opportunity to express thankfulness for the churches to which he is writing. Here are just a few examples:

November 20, 2023 - Good Morning! It's Monday, November 20.

Today we'll take a look at a Bible character... who was thankful.

Leprosy is considered by historians to be the first known and recorded disease. Scientific proof dates back to 2000 BC and Hippocrates wrote about leprosy five centuries before Bethlehem. It was incurable and those who contracted it were quarantined, not for 10 days, but for the rest of their agonizing lives.