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Jun 2021
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:21) Ken Kuhn, our Church Council president, pointed me to a concern that’s been on my mind ever since. As we’ve trudged through COVID and social upset, church membership in the United States has dropped below 50 percent for the first time in 80 years, according to Gallup. Through the 20th century, membership in churches, synagogues, and mosques hovered around 70 percent. Beginning around 2000, however, membership began to drop rapidly, finally reaching 47 percent in 2020. The trend is......
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Follow Me
While they were going, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened. 12 After the priests had assembled with the elders, they devised a plan...
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Everything Has Become New
So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and...
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Our Identity In Christ
For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. (1 Corinthians 12:13) It comes out of nowhere...
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Not By Might But Spirit
Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. (Zechariah 4:6b) When the above words were spoken, the children of Israel were a conquered people. They were under...
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They Can’t Do That!
They can’t do that! That’s the refrain that is loaded and waiting in our minds just in case family gatherings are limited due to COVID-19 – or a mask order is put into place....
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Jesus Teaches and Heals
“I’m stuck and I’ll need a pull.” It was a distress call from a hunter who had gotten himself into a “pickle”. His four-wheel drive truck met its match when he tried to navigate...
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Right Now Media Solutions
We continue to face concerns that isolate us. The political situation pulls us one direction & then another motivating us to point fingers at each other. We want to open every opportunity for you...
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Glory to God in the Highest
Now to God who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages 26...
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Join or Die
For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the...
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