By Travis Albers, Christian Education and Youth Leader at Sully First Reformed Church
Every Christmas before my family opens presents, we read Luke 2:1-20, which is about the birth of Jesus. With each passing year, I find my mind focusing on different parts of the scripture, and this year, I find my mind wandering to the...
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Pastor’s Pen: The True Treasure of Christmas
By Pastor Tim Morgan; Kellogg – Pleasant View United Methodist Churches
I have always tended to approach the Christmas season with mixed feelings. Certainly, it is a time of year that has many good and pleasant qualities. We outdo ourselves to make our surroundings extra beautiful for all those we share them with. We take more...
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Pastors honor Nancy Pick’s retirement
At its meeting on Dec. 3 at Coffee Cup Cafe in Sully, the Lynnville-Sully Ministerium wished Nancy Pick the best and God’s blessings as she has announced her retirement and will be leaving as pastor of St. Andrews Lutheran Church on Jan. 1. Pastors present, from left, were Brian Ochsner of Sully Christian Reformed Church,...
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Heart of Worship spreads Christmas cheer with community activities
Lynnville Heart of Worship was a flurry of excitement and joyful activity this past weekend as the church ladies came together to give back to the community. Over 70 Plates of Cheer were piled high with homemade treats and fruit to tempt the most rigid dieter! This has been a long-standing event at the church...
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Pastor’s Pen: Providence
By Jerry Morningstar, Sully Community Church pastor
As a Christian, I believe in the doctrine of providence. Providence refers to God’s sovereign rule over the affairs of life. All the apparent surprises and accidents of life somehow fall within the wider sphere of God’s providential order.
J.I. Packer writes: “The doctrine of providence teaches Christians that they...
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Pastor’s Pen: You are wanted
By Tom Pool, Lynnville Heart of Worship pastor
As we journey in this life and deal with the ways and actions of this world we live in, it is hard for us to realize there is a God in Heaven who cares and wants us. In Philippians 4:13-19, the Apostle Paul is telling us real unity...
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Pastor’s Pen: For the good of others
By Brian Ochsner, Sully Christian Reformed Church pastor
In his book “Invitation to a Journey,” Robert Mulholland Jr. writes, “Spiritual formation is a process of being conformed to the image of Christ for the sake of others.” And while each part of this definition has great weight in helping us understand what it means to be...
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