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...
