Pastor Chris
Pastor's Pen - January 2022
"Put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.” - Ephesians 4:24 NIV - 2022. It’s time for a new...
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Pastor Chris
- Dec 2, 2021
- 3 min
Pastor's Pen - December 2021
"Mary said, 'Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.'” - Luke 1:38 - “Here am I.” When Mary uttered...
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Pastor Chris
- Nov 12, 2020
- 2 min
November 12, 2020
"I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten . . . You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of...
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Pastor Chris
- Nov 5, 2020
- 2 min
November 5, 2020
"The Lord is King! Let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad!" (Psalm 97:1). As I write this devotional on the morning of...
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Pastor Chris
- Oct 8, 2020
- 2 min
October 8, 2020
"It is in pardoning that we are pardoned." In November 1945, ten Polish prisoners of war broke into the home of the Hamelmann family in...
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Pastor Chris
- Sep 24, 2020
- 2 min
September 24, 2020
"O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved, as to...
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Pastor Chris
- Sep 10, 2020
- 2 min
September 10, 2020
"Where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope." The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened more than just our physical health. The...
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Pastor Chris
- Sep 3, 2020
- 2 min
September 2, 2020
"Where there is injury, pardon." The prayer on which we're meditating in this season is called the "Prayer of St. Francis,", though...
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Pastor Chris
- Aug 20, 2020
- 3 min
August 20, 2020
"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace . . ." So begins the famous prayer attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, a prayer which speaks...
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Pastor Chris
- Aug 20, 2020
- 3 min
August 13, 2020
This week's devotional was provided by Earl Fashbaugh. Scripture References: Acts 6:13-15 (Stephen's Accusers); Acts 7:1-53 (Stephen's...
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Pastor Chris
- Aug 12, 2020
- 3 min
August 5, 2020
This week's devotional was provided by Dorothy Kurlander. "While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of...
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Pastor Chris
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
July 23, 2020
"She said to the bystanders, 'This man was with Jesus of Nazareth. Again [Peter] denied it with an oath, 'I do not know the man'"...
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Pastor Chris
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
April 7, 2020
"We felt we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves, but on God who raises the dead" (2 Corinthians...
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Pastor Chris
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
March 31, 2020
Then the Israelite supervisors came to Pharaoh and cried, "Why do you treat your servants like this? No straw is given to your servants,...
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Pastor Chris
- Aug 12, 2020
- 1 min
March 17, 2020
"It was not you who sent me here, but God" (Genesis 45:8). As our world is awash in anxiety over the spread of the novel coronavirus and...
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Pastor Chris
- Jul 30, 2020
- 2 min
July 30, 2020
"Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Let your good spirit lead me on a level path" (Psalm 143:10). A few days ago, I started...
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Pastor Chris
- Jun 11, 2020
- 2 min
June 11, 2020
"Jesus said to them, 'But who do you say that I am?' Simon Peter responded, 'You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God'" (Matthew...
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Pastor Chris
- May 28, 2020
- 2 min
May 28, 2020
"Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts" (Zechariah 4:6). The Lord said this through the prophet Zechariah...
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Pastor Chris
- May 21, 2020
- 2 min
May 21, 2020
"Jesus came and said to them, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all...
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Pastor Chris
- Apr 21, 2020
- 2 min
April 21, 2020
"Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them" (John 14:23)....
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