Awesome
You guys and gals are awesome. I mean, God is awesome, through you. But you're pretty awesome too. This past Sunday was a great Sunday. Besides the fact that a small army of folks helped decorate and beautify our building for the upcoming Christmas season, we had a handful of Central folks – along with some non-Central friends – cook Thanksgiving meals for 14 local families, totaling over 40 people. And then, on Monday, a handful more distributed and delivered those meals. Awesome. Here are
You Are a Work of God
This coming Sunday, we are wrapping up our (all too!) short series called “BeLoved”, on our identity, dignity, and destiny in Christ. On Sunday, we talked about how as God’s beloved children, we are also created to be his beloved ‘co-workers’. That is, we are made in “the image of God” to ‘be’ like God in the way we do a sort if imitation of what God has done in creation: brining order to disorder, peace to chaos, light to dark, and life to
The Gift of God Within You
In both the women’s and men’s bible studies this week, we hit on the topic of gifts. By gifts, I don’t mean gifts we give people for Christmas, or birthday gifts, or anything like that: I mean the gifts (abilities) that God has given us for…well…what for? The ‘gifts’ that God has given us: what are they for? In the men’s bible study, we’re (slowly!) studying our way through First Corinthians, which has extensive discussion on gifts. Before I answer the main
Pray For Them…
It’s Wednesday, and yesterday was election day – but I am actually writing this to you on Monday (sorry to confuse you right off the bat!). On Tuesday, our reading in our bible reading plan happened to be a passage that is very fitting for election day. Look at what Paul writes in to Timothy in chapter 2 of his first letter: 1 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, 2 for kings and