Echo 3-25-12 (Zane) March 26, 2012

  This week PM and PJ preached on the believer’s call to righteousness; specifically as it relates to sin in the believer’s life. As we grow in Christ, we ought to sin less. Our example in living a life of righteousness and holiness is Jesus Christ. Jesus is not only the model and example for [...]

ECHO- 3/18/12 (Zane) March 20, 2012

The sermon about Christlike prayer this week was a helpful guide to moving into a place where we are able to delight in prayer. This happens as we dedicate ourselves to the task of prayer. Perhaps the greatest takeaway from PM’s sermon was that there is no place for legalism in our prayer lives. God [...]

ECHO 3-11-12 (Pastor John) March 12, 2012

Christlike Faith and Prayer   Pastor Mike’s sermon, Sunday, hit me hard when he got to his second point.  The whole idea of faith and prayer mixed together is a foundational concept for Christians, but the working out of that concept sure has a varied look to it.  What is clear is that Christians believe [...]

Echo 3/4/12 March 11, 2012

This is an incredibly late follow-up to last week’s sermon about Christlike forgiveness. I would apologize but I feel like that might put you in a weird position where you would feel like you would have to forgive me, lest you be accused of not putting a sermon into practice. Forgiving people is a difficult [...]

Echo 2/26/2012 February 28, 2012

This Sunday, Pastor Mike shared the need for us, as believers in Christ, to have a Christ-like concern for other people and specifically for other believers in Christ. Galatians 6, reminds us to help in carrying the burdens of others while also taking care in carrying our own burden. Essentially, this requires believers to be [...]

Echo for 2/19/2012 (Zane) February 21, 2012

This Sunday, Pastor Mike   preached out of Matthew 7 and  John 7. More specifically, he taught about the process of “de-logging”. This process speaks to the need to lovingly speak the corrective truth of the Bible to those in need of correction but also of the need to examine ourselves and to deal with the [...]

Echo for February 12 (Pastor John) February 13, 2012

Pastor Mike, in his series “What Does Christlike Look Like?” presented a challenging message last Sunday concerning the capacity that believers have to love like never before.  In fact, his message clearly demonstrated the overarching power and impact of God’s love expressed through His followers.  However, PM (Pastor Mike) couched the sermon in a word [...]

Echo 1/29/2012 (John) February 1, 2012

What’s Next?   The idea of a hell, a place of absolute darkness and separation from God for all eternity, is not a savory thought.  Jokes are made of the fun that the incredulous will have with their buddies, partying the “night” away, as if this design was somehow a subset of an afterlife that [...]

Echo- 1/22/2012- Zane January 25, 2012

The reality that Jesus is returning escapes me most of the time. Living with the kind of intentional purpose that such a reality demands is difficult at times. Maybe you are like me and it is easy to take for granted that there is a definite end in sight. There is a definite point in [...]

Echo 1/15/2012 (Zane) January 16, 2012

I’m not a huge fan of perilous times…or of being affected by them. I don’t like it that Jesus said that believers would suffer or be the object of persecution. I hate that there are believers around the world that are ostracized from their families, or put in prison, or even killed because of their [...]