by fpcw2023 | Dec 19, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Week At A Glance Sunday, December 22nd 10:00 a.m. Worship Service 5:00 p.m. Christmas Caroling & Chili Dinner Tuesday, December 24th 4:oo p.m. Christmas Eve Service – Kids & Family, nursery care available 6:00 p.m. Traditional...
by fpcw2023 | Dec 12, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Week At A Glance Sunday, December 15th 10:00 a.m. Worship Service Monday, December 16th 7:00 p.m. Choir Tuesday, December 17th 7:00 a.m. Men’s Bible Study and Breakfast 1:00 p.m. Presbyterian Women Christmas Party Wednesday, December...
by fpcw2023 | Dec 5, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone During my senior year of high school at Black Forrest Academy our class made two trips that are forever memorialized in my mind. The first was our senior trip to Rome, with stops in Florence and Venice. It was in Rome that I first felt the magnitude...
by fpcw2023 | Nov 21, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone “Praise the Lord!” This is the phrase that begins each Psalm 147-150, and thus ends the book of songs. Why was the book constructed in this way? Because the use of the book of the Psalms is to instruct God’s people in worship. God’s Word over and...
by fpcw2023 | Nov 14, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Giving thanks or remaining thankful in life is a hard discipline to sustain, it is especially hard in times of both trials. In the movie Batman vs. Superman: The Dawn of Justice, the sworn enemy of Superman, Lex Luther (played by Jesse Eisenberg),...
by fpcw2023 | Nov 7, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone There was a book recently published called “The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, And What Will It Take To Bring Them Back”. The book contained largely the findings from a massive research project funded by major institutions....
by fpcw2023 | Oct 31, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone “Chosen and exiled. That is the norm for God’s people.” (Jim Davis) Snow is falling outside as I am sitting here in my office. It is only October, yet with trick or treating happening tonight, the weather, and making plans for Christmas services, it...
by fpcw2023 | Oct 24, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone I remember when I first started going to seminary full time at Westminster in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kristin and I had moved out to the east coast all the way from the San Francisco peninsula and the setting couldn’t have been more...
by fpcw2023 | Oct 17, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone The Bible is a unified story which highlights certain events in the course of redemptive history which tell us what we need to know for our salvation. Peter tells us (2 Peter 1:21), that men were carried along by the Holy Spirit to tell the...
by fpcw2023 | Oct 10, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone This week we will look at the second act in the life of Ruth and Naomi. As the story goes, reality begins to set in as Ruth and Naomi have to find a way to live in the community to which they recently returned. Ruth leans on the Law of Moses...
by fpcw2023 | Oct 3, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Week At A Glance Sunday, October 6th 9:00 a.m. Adult Bible Study with Lynn Cale 10:00 a.m. Sunday Worship Service with Pastor Benn Melli Monday, October 7th 5:30 p.m. Bell Choir Tuesday, October 8th 7:00 a.m. Men’s Bible Study and...
by fpcw2023 | Sep 26, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Week At A Glance Sunday, September 29th 9:00 a.m. Adult Bible Study with Lynn Cale 10:00 a.m. Sunday Worship Service with Pastor Glenn Burfeind Monday, September 30th 5:30 p.m. Bell Choir Tuesday, October 1st 7:00 a.m. Men’s Bible...