10:49 PM April 24 is Upper Room Sunday. We’ll be premiering a brand-new video about the Upper Room Service featuring well-known actors, including our own Pastor Davis Duggins. There is also something special happening in the 10 AM service, but I am sworn to secrecy and cannot reveal it. 10:37 PM Notes from the baptisms yest…
10:21 PM Today’s entry in the Crosswalk weblog is called Martina McBride and God’s Will. 9:47 PM In all three sermons this morning, I described the common area behind Mike and Pam Steger’s apartment that received the Backyard Makeover Miracle yesterday as being bounded on one side by a chain-link fence. Marlene said later t…
Pressing Needs by Ray Pritchard A few days ago I ran across this quote from Martin Luther on how we should pray: We should pray by fixing our mind upon some pressing need, desiring it with all earnestness, and then exercise faith and confidence toward God in the matter, never doubting that we have been heard. St. Bernard sa…
Sermon Series: Ponder This - 20057:32 PM Today’s entry in the Crosswalk weblog is called Backyard Makeover Miracle. Please read this story! 2:23 PM I just took an online test that answers the question, What Kind of American English Do You Speak? My results seem about right, although I think my Dixie percentage would have been higher before I moved to Oak P…
12:47 PM Do you know where Bob Boerman, Rob Gaskill, Darin Weil and Craig Hammond will be tomorrow night? They’re going to the rodeo. 12:47 PM The latest entry in the Crosswalk weblog is called It’s Friday and I’m Glad. 10:30 AM Just found an excellent short introduction to multi-site ministry called One Church, Multiple Co…
10:40 PM The latest entry in the Crosswalk weblog is called Ken Trainor Has a Good Point. 11:05 AM Thursday shout-out to Madge Laitala, Matthew and Jack Sagin, Wilbur Ellsworth, Chuck Samec, Ryan Whitley and Buddy Gray in Birmingham, AL, Wanda Draus, Naomi Johnson and to David Huizing. 10:50 AM So what do you think I’m doin…
10:56 PM A big Wednesday night shout-out to the following folks from the Pastor’s Bible Class: Al Allen, Patrick Italia, Ernie and Jean Schulz, Wayne and Catherine Watkins, Diane Koslowski, Bud Hinchman, Scott and Doreen Mahlstedt, Nikki NNam, Victor the Greek, Victor Dixon, Nellie Krems, Helen Mildenhall, Betty Arnold. 10:…
3:55 PM I think something is wrong with this survey of the most livable states. How can New Jersey (# 9) be ranked ahead of Hawaii (# 26)? That’s just not right. 11:29 AM Several months ago I wrote about a wonderful opportunity to partner with Word of Life to provide spiritual supplies for our troops in Iraq. We have donate…
10:44 PM In my sermon on Sunday, I mentioned how much I enjoy riding my bike. This note put a smile on my face:We took a family bike ride yesterday for the first time in a long time because you were so inspirational!!!9:33 PM Reformation and Revival Ministries is sponsoring a Saturday seminar called A Christian Perspective …
11:07 PM The latest entry in the Crosswalk weblog is called Alice Cooper and Me. 10:06 PM Earlier this evening Marlene and Mark and I visited the Brown Cow Ice Cream Parlor on Madison Street in Forest Park. When we saw Connie Brown at church this AM, she told us that business has been good, even during the winter months. To…