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...
