by fpcw2023 | Mar 28, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. As I read through the headings in my Bible between Palm Sunday and the Upper Room, here are the topics I find in this year’s Gospel, the Gospel of Mark: Jesus Cleanses the Temple The Authority of Jesus Challenged The Parable of...
by fpcw2023 | Mar 21, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. Roller Coasters. I remember the last time I rode a roller Coaster. I can’t remember the name of that roller coaster. It wasn’t famous like the “Cyclone Roler Coaster” at Coney Island, the “Storm Runner” at Hershey park or the...
by fpcw2023 | Mar 14, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. Housekeeping. I know. Housekeeping is not something we like to think about, but it is a reality of life with which we must deal. If you think about it, that is what Jesus was doing when he prepared his disciples for both his...
by fpcw2023 | Mar 7, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. Some of you probably have or have seen what are now being called “Smart Watches.” They are made by the Apple brand with all of the connected resources as well as android systems. As the technology has advanced these watches can...
by fpcw2023 | Feb 29, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. On Sunday mornings at 9 Am in the Chapel, we have been working our way through the Book of Romans. Of all the books in the New Testament, Romans, especially chapters 1 through 8, is the key development of what Christians believe....
by fpcw2023 | Feb 22, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. I can remember the “pastoral visit” to this day. I was a young pastor. I had made an appointment to visit one of the oldest members of the church I was serving. I understood a bit of what I would be walking in to. The husband had...
by fpcw2023 | Feb 15, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. Due to a busy schedule of meetings we don’t have our usual midweek message from Pastor Paul. Please take note of our upcoming events and dont forget about our wonderful volunteer opportunities. Sign up sheets are on the...
by fpcw2023 | Feb 8, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. As a congregation, we are deeply blessed. We are what many would call an “intergenerational” church. We have young children (we will have the privilege of baptizing our youngest, Neveah Nassert, on February 18), we have...
by fpcw2023 | Feb 1, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. Acts 15 presents a very interesting picture of the earliest Christians. The early church had started in Jerusalem. Because of the death of Stephen (Acts 8), the beheading of James and the imprisonment of Peter (Acts 12) the...
by fpcw2023 | Jan 25, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. I am writing to give you good news of my update. I am writing this note from my office at church! I am not in everyday but in the process of slowing working myself back into a full-time presence! I will be here on Sunday and plan...
by fpcw2023 | Jan 18, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. By now you have probably heard that I am out of the church loop for a couple of weeks. I had surgery on January 15 to correct a hernia at the lower end of my esophagus. This is my 2nd hiatal hernia surgery at that location and so...
by fpcw2023 | Jan 11, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone… The Old Testament lesson for this coming Sunday is a wonderful lesson found in 1 Samuel 3. It is the story of young Samuel being awakened as he slept in the Temple. It seems God was working to get young Samuel’s attention....
