by fpcw2023 | Mar 5, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone There is a famous painting by Dutch painter Rembrandt called, “The Return of the Prodigal”. It currently resides in St. Petersburg Russia. In this famous painting the character of the younger son, who ran away from home after demanding his Fathers...
by fpcw2023 | Feb 19, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone In the deeply profound book, “If You Give A Pig a Birthday Party”, the author, Laura Numeroff, offers us insight into the human condition that rivals most western continental philosophy in the last several hundred years. My daughter, Kyria, was...
by fpcw2023 | Feb 12, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello everyone. We have an opportunity for those who are exploring membership at First Presbyterian Church coming up starting February 22nd. The class will run four consecutive weeks and we meet directly after the worship service from 11:20-12:00....
by fpcw2023 | Feb 5, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello all, just as a way of reminder, this Sunday is our congregational meeting in which we will vote to accept our budget and you will receive our annual report. If you are a member of this church, this is part of your congregational involvement....
by fpcw2023 | Jan 29, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello Church! I wanted to write to you and explain what we mean by “congregational meeting”, which we will be having in a few weeks. Our church government is structured around multiple layers of accountability, and that is very good. Let’s take the...
by fpcw2023 | Jan 22, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Few tales inspire me more than sports movies which portray some individual or some team overcoming overwhelming odds to glory. In many ways that is the American tale. In the movie “Hoosiers”, (based loosely on a real story), a coach with a...
by fpcw2023 | Jan 15, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello all! On my windowsill in my office sits a tiny playmobil figure of German reformer Martin Luther. Yes, I have toys in my office, but Jesus said judge not less you be judged. The reason I have this little figure is that it reminds me where...
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...
