John 1:35-51 – Great Expectations We all enter into new experiences with expectations, whether we realize them or not. How our experience then measures up to our expectations will often dictate our opinion of how well it went. If I go into a new experience with the expectation that it
Read more →Although we had been shut down most of last spring and summer CBC has continued to further our Local Missions reach into our local community. One big update that occurred over the summer is that we hosted a Mobile Market Food Distribution Center for the Montgomery County Food Bank. We
Read more →Beach Camp Report A few weeks ago, Refuge and Rooted, our student ministry groups, held their Summer Camp against all odds! The original camp was meant to be held in early June, but Student Life canceled their entire summer schedule, and then as time approached we wondered if we too
Read more →Are you tired yet? Ready to give up? Do you feel weak? In chaotic and trying times it takes more effort to do even the most common of tasks in our lives. When we are given a race that keeps going on and on we start to lose heart, we
Read more →Fear begins in the heart of a child and remains in the heart of the adult. The face of it changes some, but it is there all the same. If we can teach our children to call on God immediately when he is afraid, he will retain this response as
Read more →The Knowable Will of God I’m picking back up on my long train of thought related to Clear Thinking, Transformation, and Renewing Your Mind. The last two write-ups have come out of Romans 12 and we’ll stay there for now. But first, a quick story… I grew up sharing a
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Scripture for Today Romans 8:35, 37-39 (ESV) 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor
Read more →Scripture for Today Romans 8:29 (NIV) 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. God’s grace seems to escalate as we immerse ourselves in it. Perhaps a brief story might help me explain my thoughts
Read more →Scripture for Today Romans 8:28-29 (NIV) 28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. I like the words of the witty humorist, Judith Viorst. She wrote, “They say traveling makes you broad. Suffering makes you deep.
Read more →Scripture for Today Romans 8:17-18 (NLT) 17 And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering. 18 Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to
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