One Great Hour of Sharing   “Sharing Hands, Sharing Hearts”    Adapted from a sermon by Rev. Rosemary C. Mitchell (retired)  by Pastor Teddie McConnell and based on Matthew 25:31-36 and 1 John 1:1-4Th...  Read More

One myth people believed in Jesus’ day was that illness and physical suffering resulted directly from someone sinning. They didn’t know about genetics, bacteria and viruses. If a baby was born with a ...  Read More

Jesus stopped to rest by Jacob’s well in the city of Sychar while the disciples went to buy lunch. He was dusty and thirsty from the journey. A woman approached, let’s call her Sarah, since the story ...  Read More

“Receive and Believe”             John 3:1-17 and Romans 4:1-5, 13-17People have a strong need to feel like they belong to something. Isolation damages us, which is why solitary confinement is such a ...  Read More

Lent is a season that can be emotionally difficult, because we focus on the last days of Jesus and what He went through so we could be saved. I find imagining the humiliation, torture, and death of Je...  Read More

             “Listen to Him!”       February 19, 2023      Matt. 18:1-9 & Exodus 24:12-18         No one in our Exodus passage was transfigured in the same way Jesus was, but there are many similariti...  Read More

    Moses knew he wouldn’t make it into the promised land with the Israelites. He had one last chance to give them a sermon about how to live God’s way before they would go on without him. The passage...  Read More

“God’s Priorities”     2-5-23        Isaiah 58:1-9a, Matthew 5:13-20         Pastor Teddie McConnellHere’s a story from Behavior of Belief by Spiros Zodhiates. A man sat through a church service and t...  Read More

Does the Gospel make sense? Is it logical? Or is it a paradox?Here are two examples of paradox:There is nothing constant except change.The more honest you are about your faults, the more people will t...  Read More

            Isaiah 9 begins in the dark, with the people in anguish under a burdensome yoke, living in the shadow of death. Isaiah predicted a great light, the light of the world, coming to them. Thei...  Read More

We’re in the season of Epiphany, which is the time when the church celebrates that God is made manifest in the human person of Jesus of Nazareth. He is the Word who became flesh and dwelt among us. In...  Read More

Pastor Teddie McConnell      1-8-2023      The Power in Humility         Matthew 3:13-17 & Isaiah 42:1-9            Isaiah’s description of God’s Servant is clearly a prophesy of Jesus. He is someone ...  Read More