Monthly Archives: April 2026

April 12, 2026

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This Sunday we start a 4-week church wide emphasis on prayer based on the Lord’s Prayer as found in Matthew 6:5-13. We are breaking the Lord’s Prayer into eight small sections where I will preach on one section on Sunday, followed by our Community Group Studies that week. We will repeat that pattern for 4 weeks. In our Community Groups we will use the Video based material “The Prayer Course” on Right Now Media. If you don’t have Right Now Media, you create an account for free through a link in our church newsletter every week. If you are not in a Community Group this is a good time to join one, even if it’s just for these 4 weeks.
Jesus begins his teaching in the Lord’s Prayer with the phrase, “When you pray . . .” Jesus assumes all people will pray at some time and in some way. But do they pray as God intended for them to pray? Join us for this important series on prayer as we discover what it means to pray the way God intended us to pray.

Easter Sunday – April 5th, 2026

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What is the most significant event that has happened during your lifetime? You could look at it from just your personal experience but maybe try to think of something that has happened on a bigger scale that has affected many people, including you. For me that would be the events of 911 on September 11th, 2001. I knew the moment I saw the second plane hit the World Trade Center our world would never be the same; and I was correct.
Throughout the course of human history there have been events, for the better or for the worse, that have changed the course of humanity. Time is the only way to know if the changes we are experiencing right now will be for the good or for the worse. However, there is one event that is tied to one person that stands out as the pivotal moment of all history. Easter and the resurrection of Jesus Christ is that event. The life of Jesus stands above every other life ever lived as the most important life. People the world over see this as the year 2026, which really means, “This is the year, In the Year of Our Lord, 2026.” The resurrection of Jesus is the most important and amazing event of all history: A person died and came back to life! If God can do that, God can do anything. Easter Changes Everything!
Some of the major events of history will not have a direct effect on our lives at this time. But the resurrection of Jesus still affects people’s lives today. We may think our lives are inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but that is not how God sees it. Through the resurrection of Jesus God offers us that same amazing gift of resurrection: life after death. That is an event that affects our lives here and now as well as in the future. Easter does change everything. Join me this Sunday as we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and how that one event changes everything.