by fpcw2023 | Nov 13, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone “Nuremberg” is the newest attempt at a film portraying the trials of Nazi leaders for war crimes after the war ended. The drama centers around the necessity to precisely show how the crimes the Nazi regime committed were crimes against humanity, as...
by fpcw2023 | Nov 6, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone In the middle of the night the door opens, a stumbling of little feet is heard dodging the laundry hamper and pile of stacked books by my bed. A voice is heard, “Mommy, daddy, I’m scared, I had a bad dream.” Fear has a powerful affect on our...
by fpcw2023 | Oct 30, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Sometimes sarcasm just feels good. For me, most of the time, it comes from a disillusioned heart. Malachi found himself preaching to a bunch of people with this very heart condition. One commentator described the setting as filled with, “…religious...
by fpcw2023 | Oct 23, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello everyone, I was speaking at a Sunday School class in front of 60 or so adults about how each book made it into the Bible when a gentlemen raises a question a bit off topic. He asked why the God of the Old Testament was, in his mind, portrayed...
by fpcw2023 | Oct 16, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone In 1980 Johnny Lee recorded and released a song called “Looking For Love in All The Wrong Places”. The song remained a massive hit across multiple charts and was used in the movie “Urban Cowboy”. In the song he describes that he was looking to be...
by fpcw2023 | Oct 9, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Growing up one of my favorite movies was the cartoon Disney film, “Robin Hood”. I loved the story of Robin the cunning fox and his faithful bear friend Little John, as they out maneuvered the nefarious King John. What made this “Phony King John” so...
by fpcw2023 | Oct 2, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello all! A recent Pope was quoted as saying, “A Christian without a Church is not a thing.” One could respond with, “A Christian without a Church is not an obedient Christian.” Why is the church so important to Jesus? The same question was asked...
by fpcw2023 | Sep 25, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello all, This Sunday we will continue our sermon series in Zechariah chapter three. The text helps us deal with a problem that is fundamental to human experience, the problem of dealing with shame and guilt. Often times people turn to religious...
by fpcw2023 | Sep 18, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello everyone! This week we will look at the ministry of the prophet Zechariah. He was a contemporary of Haggai, who we have looked at for the last two weeks. If Haggai was the prophet who promised God’s peace would come with a new temple,...
by fpcw2023 | Sep 11, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello everyone, The other night I watched an old Disney film with my kids, “No Deposit, No Return.” It’s a great film staring Don Knotts, a sort of comedy of errors. It filled my cup with nostalgia and warm memories. As I grow older, I look forward...
by fpcw2023 | Sep 3, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello everyone! Our Fall programs will be starting over the next few weeks which include; Sunday school for both adults and children, Youth ministry, Women’s Bible Study, both adult and student Choir, as well as handbells. Our men’s ministry...
by fpcw2023 | Aug 28, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone History reminds us that we are not alone. It can be easy in our Western Culture to feel like we are always experiencing something new in life. In a sense that is true, around every new discovery in technology, science, or maybe just a new app we...
by fpcw2023 | Aug 21, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello everyone, With our Fall coming shortly upon us I want to address one topic that has been heavy upon my mind: Sunday School. Those words probably mean something different to each and every one of us. Some of us might immediately think of...
by fpcw2023 | Aug 14, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello everyone, What will the future bring? If you pay attention to the major news networks, there seems to be a pessimistic or drab story given to us these days. After all, they do have to keep you coming back for more don’t they! When did we...
by fpcw2023 | Aug 7, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone I enjoy coffee. My journey with the beverage has been one of no interest for twenty plus years, to functional interest as a form of caffeine in my latter twenties, to social experiences associated with meetings, and finally one of appreciation for...
by fpcw2023 | Jul 31, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Last evening my wife reminded me that we only have three weeks of summer left. What she meant by that was that we only have three weeks until the kids are back in school, summer weather may stick around, but even that will eventually change. As...
by fpcw2023 | Jul 25, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone First Presbyterian Church will be offering a membership class every Sunday starting August 3rd – 20th from 10:15-11:00. After the worship service, you are invited to grab some snacks and coffee and head down to the class room #2 in the...
by fpcw2023 | Jul 17, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone The Church consists of all the Father’s people who are united to Him by the grace of His Spirit through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ. There are particular expressions of that community who worship on Sunday in different country’s, cities,...
by fpcw2023 | Jul 14, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone The Church consists of all the Father’s people who are united to Him by the grace of His Spirit through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ. There are particular expressions of that community who worship on Sunday in different country’s, cities,...
by fpcw2023 | Jul 10, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Week At A Glance Thursday, July 10th (this evening) Unwind, Bible Study with Donna Maddux. See info below Sunday, July 13th 9:00 a.m. Sunday Worship Service Tuesday, July 15th 8:00 a.m. Men’s Bible Study and Breakfast Wednesday,...
by fpcw2023 | Jul 2, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Week At A Glance Friday July 4th 11:00 a.m. Celebration of Life for Sid House, Grouse Moutain Lodge – See info below Sunday, July 6th 9:00 a.m. Sunday Worship Service – Join us in Fellowship Hall following service for...
by fpcw2023 | Jun 24, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone In keeping with the church’s vision statement’s last sentence, “We aim to ignite a lifelong passion for Christ and strengthen our church’s impact on the future of our community.”, we will begin Unwind, a Thursday...
by fpcw2023 | Jun 19, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Wisdom literature is a gift to the people of God because it gives us an understanding of how people operate, the realities of work, the difficulties of decision making, and the perspective of those who have gone before us. For many people, when they...
by fpcw2023 | Jun 12, 2025 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Wisdom literature is a gift to the people of God because it gives us an understanding of how people operate, the realities of work, the difficulties of decision making, and the perspective of those who have gone before us. For many people, when they...
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...
