Jan 30
2025
Pastor's Note
Do you have any recent experiences that highlight God's grace? Do you have compelling ministry stories? Have you seen God bringing fruit through some of your gospel efforts? If so, we want to hear about it!
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Pastor's Note
Earlier this week Karla sent out a substantive email with information on three important pieces - a Personal Ministry Survey, a draft for a revised CBC Constitution and Bylaws, and a prototype/draft of our new CBC Discipleship Pathway. We'll be talking more about each of those over the next weeks and months. For now, I just wanted to touch on the Personal Ministry Survey.
Keep ReadingElder Update from February
The elders met February 19. One of the first items on our agenda is prayer for our church and the individuals within our church. Many think of these as “joys and concerns.” There are always physical and spiritual needs (“concerns,” though it is a privilege to pray and care for one another and is joyful in a special way). But there are always many things that we would classify as “joys.”
Keep ReadingPastor's Note
This Sunday, we will be on question 20 in our catechism time on Sunday mornings. Thus far, the catechism questions have been establishing God's holiness, our sin, and the need for a Savior. The upcoming questions will revolve around the nature of redemption and our Redeemer. I've enjoyed these catechism times so far (especially this last Sunday), and I hope they've been fruitful.
Keep ReadingPastor's Note
I thoroughly enjoyed our Heritage Night last Friday evening, and am very grateful for those who worked hard to make it happen. That team is now asking the question - should we do it again? I would love to know what the rest of the church thinks. Should we host another "Heritage Night" next year, or sometime in the future? Should we make it an annual thing?
Keep ReadingPastor's Note
Now that we're into the second month of the year, it may be a good time for me to ask how your practice of spiritual disciplines is going. I think we all know the value and necessity of spiritual disciplines — the regular engagement in prayer, Scripture reading, singing, and corporate worship, to name a few — if we are to follow the Lord.
Keep ReadingElder Update from January
The elders met on January 22. We followed our normal pattern which includes discussion and prayer for the needs of our church family and our church before moving to other matters.
Keep ReadingJan 23
2025
Pastor's Note
If you're like me, there are certain passages and verses in Scripture that have always jumped off the page and stuck with you. One of those for me is Colossians 1:28; "Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ." According to Colossians 1:28, how does Paul present everyone mature in Christ? By proclaiming Him (which includes both warning and teaching).
Jan 16
2025
Pastor's Note
As hinted at by Pastor Russ last week, and as you might notice as you read this, the CBC Weekly looks a bit different this week! Led by Laura’s efforts, we’ve been working to update the CBC Weekly and Sunday Bulletin (something that we’ve actually wanted to do for a couple years). We are updating these because we found there was a lot of unnecessary overlap in information in the two pieces.
Jan 9
2025
Pastor's Note
Since we didn’t meet last week, we didn’t have a chance to tell you about our adult Sunday School classes coming up January 12th. (We’ll reschedule those member spotlights for another Sunday.) Here is the information on the new round of classes starting Sunday...
Jan 2
2025
Pastor's Note
How do you prepare for a new sermon series? I prepare to preach a new sermon series usually with a healthy mixture of excitement and panic. But how do you, or we as a church, prepare for a new sermon series? As we start Romans, I would like to recommend you familiarize yourself with the whole book over the next few months.