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Newsletter — September 24, 2023 September 24th, 2023

If you are looking for a great paedo-communion passage to talk with your friends about, Exodus 12 is it! First, God invites His people to a feast — a saving feast. The Passover feast! They didn’t earn their place there; they were granted it. Invited! The whole household was …

Newsletter — September 17, 2023 September 17th, 2023

Admittedly, this is a PTL Weekly Perspective. For what am I praising the Lord? For Pastor Thacker! While I was gone for eight weeks I visited four Presbyterian churches. What was good to see at each was weekly communion, though at least two did not pray over the bread and the …

Newsletter — September 10, 2023 September 10th, 2023

Often when you hear a sermon or teaching on Romans 16:3-16, it’s called the “Greet One Another” passage and a lot of hay is made of how we should great one another in the church. You hear this sermon in church plants, encouraging everyone to greet visitors so the church will be …

Newsletter — September 3, 2023 September 3rd, 2023

We have seen in Pastor Thacker’s sermons how God makes a fool of His enemy, Pharaoh. We see how Pharaoh’s schemes make less and less sense. His ramblings seem almost those of a mad-man as he defies God in the face of the plagues bringing greater and greater disaster upon the land.

Newsletter — August 27, 2023 August 27th, 2023

The signs of life abound in our congregation with the births this year both past and upcoming. And what a joy to welcome these dear ones to our midst, as the waters of baptism bear witness that they belong to Christ. This is the life of the church as we look around at our congregation and …

Newsletter — August 20, 2023 August 20th, 2023

The Church’s life is one of hope because all of her activities express and nourish hope. The word gives hope, prayer nourishes hope, singing expresses and builds hope, and baptism certainly nourishes hope as we contemplate the union with Christ that we “hope” will be but the conduit …

Newsletter — August 13, 2023 August 13th, 2023

You must come to worship every Sunday! Not just because God commands you to in the fourth commandment and the example of the church meeting on the first day of the week, but because worship builds hope in you. When you sing praises to the Lord, when you remember His works in ages past …

Newsletter — August 6, 2023 August 6th, 2023

Throughout each year in the life of Israel, the blood of dead animals was spread on the furniture of the sanctuary so that the sanctuary bore the guilt and impurity of the worshipper. The priesthood, and the High Priest, ate of those purification offerings, and so bore the sins of the people in …

Newsletter — July 23, 2023 July 23rd, 2023

“Remember Lot’s wife.” That’s what Jesus tells his disciples to do on the day when the Son of Man is revealed (Luke 17). He’s warning his disciples to flee from the coming destruction of Jerusalem just as Lot and his family was warned to flee the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah …

Newsletter — July 16, 2023 July 16th, 2023

Let’s face it. In an age of blockbusters and action movies and captivating podcasts and even “miracles” and “visions” in various branches of the church, we all, on the inside, crave the exciting and sensationalistic versions of stuff. But then we come to worship and hear the bible …

Newsletter — July 9, 2023 July 9th, 2023

For the last forty or fifty years, Christians have fallen into the practice of not naming the name of Jesus when they speak out in the public square. Can you remember a politician or even a leading Christian ever saying, “Jesus hates homosexuality.” We know this because in Matthew 19 …

Newsletter — July 2, 2023 July 2nd, 2023

Jesus said “Let the little children come to me,” and he held them and blessed them. The mothers bringing the children thought that was important: that Jesus the man/Messiah/teacher, hold their children, pray over them and bless them bodily. Even little nursing infants! And Jesus agreed …