by fpcw2023 | Jun 12, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone This Sunday we will continue on our series of looking at the book of Proverbs as we ask ourselves; “How We Should Live?” This week’s subject asks us to look at whose counsel we listen to and are influenced by. In an age where we have...
by fpcw2023 | Jun 5, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Summer is here and we all have graduations, vacation plans, camping, hiking, bbq parties, fishing, and many more reasons to enjoy the out door life in the beautiful state of Montana. While there are many activities going on in life, I want to share...
by fpcw2023 | May 30, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Week At A Glance Sunday, June 1st 9:00 a.m. Adult Bible Study 10:00 a.m. Youth Sunday Worship Service Tuesday, June 3rd 7:00 a.m. Men’s Bible Study and Breakfast Thursday, June 5th 10:00 a.m. Bible Babes Coffee & Conversation in...
by fpcw2023 | May 22, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone This week we will continue to look at church values with Christian Worship in mind. Often times we use that word without ever having a clear definition of what it really means or entails. While serving as a youth pastor at a large church, I was...
by fpcw2023 | May 15, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone This week we will continue our sermon series through values that Christians have. We will focus on “Community” this week, but we first must define what that means. Some might think of the community of Whitefish, or the community of our church...
by fpcw2023 | May 8, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello all. This Sunday Rev. Tim Lanham will be ministering to our congregation from the pulpit while my family and I are attending a soccer tournament in Idaho. Rev. Lanham is connected with Glacier Presbyterian Camp which is a ministry of the...
by fpcw2023 | May 1, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello all, As a way of reminder, our Adult Sunday School will take a one week break from our study in Revelation and look at the Westminster Confession of Faith regarding the Sacraments and church community. Also, we will continue our look at...
by fpcw2023 | Apr 24, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello all, My wife and I had a conversation when we were going through the process of buying our house regarding insurance. When fire insurance was brought up we asked ourselves what we would grab first if a fire broke out at our house and all...
by fpcw2023 | Apr 17, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone All around the world this week Christians continue the two thousand year old tradition of celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ to the witness of hundreds, maybe more, of his closest followers. While this event has changed the course of human...
by fpcw2023 | Apr 10, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello all, This Sunday is traditionally the beginning of Holy Week. We start off with a celebration often called, “Palm Sunday”. Why the name? What is the story? Mark 11, Matthew 21, Luke 19, John 12, all record the story of the entry of Jesus into...
by fpcw2023 | Apr 3, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Every great story has a beginning, middle and end. The story in Bible is no different. While there are 66 books that tell individual stories, when we group them together we have a “Meta Narrative”, or larger story. On Thursday mornings I teach class...
by fpcw2023 | Mar 20, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone In Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians he writes, “But all things should be done decently and in order.” (14:40) This follows a long laundry list starting several chapters earlier about what was going wrong in the church. We actually think there...
by fpcw2023 | Mar 14, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Week At A Glance Sunday, March 16th 9:00 Adult Bible Study – Chapel 10:00 a.m. Worship Service Monday, March 17th 5:30 p.m. Bell Choir Practice Tuesday, March 18th 7:00 a.m. Men’s Bible Study and Breakfast 1:00 p.m. Presbyterian...
by fpcw2023 | Mar 6, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone The first few chapters in the book of Revelation contain messages for seven churches. While much of the book of Revelation is symbolic, these churches were actual, physical locations and congregations. For the most part, the messages that the...
by fpcw2023 | Feb 28, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Thursday morning I had the opportunity to teach at Heritage Academy, a school which combines homeschool and two days of in person learning. I was asked to teach students about Christian apologetics. Perhaps you have heard this word before. In 1...
by fpcw2023 | Feb 20, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone The ministry of Jesus consisted of traveling around the Sea of Galilee preaching about the Kingdom of God and calling people to repent of their sin and obey God by trusting in Him. Jesus very much called people specifically, like the disciples, and...
by fpcw2023 | Feb 14, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone John writes that Jesus did many miracles and taught so many things that they could not have all been recorded. (John 21:25) This has always made me wonder why the gospel writers chose to include the things they wrote. In a way every word authors...
by fpcw2023 | Feb 6, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone In the spring of 1992, while living in Germany, my family and I went to Romania on a missions/service trip. The goal was to build a playground and help with various work projects for an orphanage in a Romanian village. The previous soviet regime led...
by fpcw2023 | Jan 30, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone In the spring of 1992, while living in Germany, my family and I went to Romania on a missions/service trip. The goal was to build a playground and help with various work projects for an orphanage in a Romanian village. The previous soviet regime led...
by fpcw2023 | Jan 23, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Sarah Irving-Stonebraker is a professor of history at Australian Catholic University in North Sydney, Australia. She has written about the necessity of understanding history when it comes to orthodox Christianity. I find her arguments very...
by fpcw2023 | Jan 16, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
From time to time, I often hear two approaches from Christians to the idea of “doctrine”. The first is the elevation of doctrine to a point of identity. Church history is filled with stories like this, even at times leading to the worst of outcomes, like fragmented...
by fpcw2023 | Jan 9, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone As you may know, at Sunday morning worship we have begun to study through the gospel of Mark and will continue to do so through Easter morning. I wanted to take this time to address a few background items I might not have communicated this last...
by fpcw2023 | Jan 2, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello all, I had a conversation recently with a person who grew up in a Christian home and now is married with three kids of his own. We were conversing about some of the challenges of raising kids and discipling them into the fear and the...
