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"Don't Worry. Trust God"

by: Pastor Eibel

01/16/2025

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Good morning and a blessed Thursday morning to you. 

The new year is still rather fresh, isn't it? But here's a question. Do you find that the challenges or problems that you had at the end of 2024 perhaps just carried into 2025?  When the ball drops in Times Square on New Year's Eve, signaling that new Year, there's that moment where the new year is fresh. But the reality, is that the problems and the challenges that we faced a minute before midnight just carry on into the

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"The Warmth of God's Love"

by: Pastor Malinak

01/09/2025

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Good morning and a most blessed Thursday to you. We are in the middle of a a winter storm warning today, and there's just a little bit of snow on the ground where I am. I hope that you are staying safe and warm wherever you are. And you know,  I was thinking about warmth and how really the great warmth that we have is from the light of the world.

The light of the world that is Christ. And regardless of how cold the world around us is, we have the light of Christ burning wit

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"New"

by: Pastor Malinak

01/02/2025

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Happy New Year. I cannot believe we're at 2025. And I know we say this every single year... that we can't believe it's a new year, but time marches forward and it is indeed a new year. So did you make resolutions? Do you have goals for this year? Did you make any spiritual goals?

You know, reading through the Bible in a year or maybe helping in a new ministry that you've never tried before, or joining a small group? Of course I have these wonderful ideas for you if you're l

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"Preparing the Way"

by: Pastor Eibel

12/19/2024

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We are approaching the fourth Sunday in this glorious season of Advent, as we anticipate entering into the Christmas season. This Sunday, the fourth candle will be aflame. And during the season of Advent, one of the characters from Holy Scripture, it is so often and rightly so, associated with Advent, is John the Baptist.

Remember, as we've been studying in this series, Mary and Elizabeth, that Elizabeth and Zechariah were the parents of the forerunner of the Lord Jesus Chr

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"God's Presence in Us"

by: Pastor Eibel

12/12/2024

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Have you ever met someone where you feel like they just kind of stand just a little bit too close to you and then you kind of take a step back just a little bit, just to give it a little bit more distance? And then you notice that they take a step toward you. They can be very nice. Of course, perhaps they just have a different kind of spatial orientation. But it can be a little awkward, can't it? Because we like our distance, right? We like our distance.

When we hear in Hol

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"Preparing for Christmas"

by: S B

12/05/2024

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Good morning and a most blessed Thursday to you. As you know, we are in the Advent season, the season where we look forward to Christmas. We look forward to preparing for Christ. The first two weeks in Advent are really focused on the coming Christ, the second coming of Christ. And it's that time of preparing for Christ to make his appearance.

And we get so bogged down, thinking and wondering and making sure we're ready for Christmas.  But if we're being honest with ourselv

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"Give Thanks"

by: Pastor Malinak

11/21/2024

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Good morning and a most blessed Thursday. 

In this devotion, a week before Thanksgiving Day, I would like to share with you a beautiful poem written by Reverend Gerhard E. Frost. He was a Lutheran pastor and seminary professor, and this is a wonderful poem written by him. It's called "Let Us Give thanks."

"Let us give thanks this moment for the sturdy fact of God's continuing love, for mercies which go before us and follow after us, for those free gifts which cost God so muc

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"The First Two Questions"

by: Pastor Eibel

11/14/2024

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Good morning and a blessed Thursday morning to you. Would you open up your Bible please to Genesis, the third chapter. Genesis chapter three for our time in God's Word. Here's a question. What are the first two questions recorded in Holy Scripture?

To answer that, we go to Genesis. The picture is the Garden of Eden. God had placed our first parents, Adam and Eve there. God had clearly communicated to them his will.

They could eat of any tree of the garden save one. The tree

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"Praise the Lord"

by: Pastor Malinak

11/07/2024

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Good morning and a most blessed Thursday to you. Let's read from Psalm 150. "Praise the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary. Praise him in his mighty firmament. Praise him for his mighty deeds. Praise him according to his surpassing greatness. Praise him with trumpet sound. Praise him with lot and harp. Praise him with tambourine and dance. Praise him with strings and pipe. Praise him with clanging cymbals. Praise him with loud clashing cymbals. Let everything that breathes

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"Time, Talent, and Treasure"

by: Pastor Eibel

10/31/2024

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Good morning and a blessed Thursday morning to you. 

 

When we turn to the Lord in prayer, we can have the confidence that God doesn't only hears our prayers, but he also answers our prayers. And one of the great prayers that all of us pray for, is that more and more people will know of the Lord Jesus Christ; that more and more people will know of God's great love for us. Jesus taking our sin on the cross.  Death overcome. The tomb is empty. God forgiving us of our sins. God

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"Blessed, Peace, and Kingdom"

by: Pastor Malinak

10/24/2024

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Good morning and a most blessed Thursday to you. Today, in our time of devotion, together, we are going to take three seemingly random things and bring them together to see how God works in the bigger picture and through, through his Spirit. 

So the first word that we're going to think about is "blessed." The second word is "peace."  And the third word is "kingdom."

Okay. So recently,  I was meditating and thinking about how blessed I am. And it's not because I'm a milliona

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"The Real Christ"

by: Pastor Malinak

10/17/2024

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Good morning and a most blessed Thursday to you. 

I heard a really interesting story of a conversation between a pastor and a banker. The banker was explaining to his pastor that he had been trained as a high level bankers in Washington, DC for a week on counterfeit money. This pastor was very intrigued.

The pastor asked him how he was trained. He said, "Do you go into a room for a week in Washington, DC, and just look at various counterfeit monies? That must be so interesti

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"Sin's Effects on Creation: Natural Disasters"

by: Pastor Eibel

10/10/2024

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Good morning. Would you open your Bibles, please, to Romans, the 8th chapter. Romans, the 8th chapter for our time in God's word today, as I record this, it's actually Wednesday morning, the eve of when that big storm is going to hit Florida. We have some members that are currently there now, so we will be keeping them, of course, in our prayers and in fact, the entire state and all those affected here by the recent storm. And now this one.

Coming at a time such as this, it

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"Prayer"

by: Pastor Malinak

10/03/2024

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Good morning and a most blessed Thursday to you. In our time of devotion together this morning we are going to spend our time in prayer. We will read from God's Word. But there has been so much happening in these past few weeks and you have been experiencing so much in your lives that I think it's a good time for us to come together and pray with one another and pray for one another.

It's always a good time for prayer. But as I was preparing for this time together with you,

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"Success"

by: Pastor Eibel

09/19/2024

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Good morning and a blessed Thursday morning to you. Would you open up your Bibles, please, with me to the Gospel of John, the 21st chapter.  

Success. We hear that term a lot, don't we? And the world can define success in terms of accumulations or achievements, power or influence. Like a child sitting in the back seat of a car on a trip. We can continue to ask, am I a success? Yet?

Have I arrived?  Am I a success? It's interesting when you look at the Bible. The Bible tells

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