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Sermon and Songs posted
CBF Family This week’s sermon and songs have been posted. Sorry for the delay! Please check in this site regularly for updates for Service times and Bible Studies. Eldership is praying. Your fellowship is missed.
March 15 Sermon and songs posted
Dear Church Family, We regret to inform everyone CBF will be taking a one week break and not having Service this Sunday March 15th. The sermon and songs have been posted. Eldership feels we should “take a breather” as some membership and staff heal from other illnesses unrelated to the virus threat. We also want to be good stewards to our community and follow regional health guidelines about limiting gatherings. We pray this will pass quickly and we…
Bible Studies
Working on Virtual Bible Studies! Please check in soon!
Tall Trees, Deep Roots Acts 1-4
Tall Trees, Deep Roots Acts 1-4 My wife and I were missionaries in Uganda for six years. While there we went to the Bwindi Impenetrable forest in Southwest Uganda to see the mountain gorillas. The Park their boarders the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is 124 square miles. There are 163 species of trees that house and protect 214 bird species, 129 mammal species, and 202 butterfly species. These tall trees have deep roots and are able stand despite…
A Life of Purpose (Series)
A Life of Purpose (Series) 2 Corinthians 5:16-18 What is your purpose in Life? Do you know? How do you decide what’s best from what is good? Is your joy dependent on things going the way you planned? Do you wish your real life was as exciting as your virtual life on new media? In a world sinking in medicated feeling of confusion, rejection and fear God allows us behind the curtain to discover the joy, pleasure and peace…
Bible Basics (What Every Christian Ought to Know)
Bible Basics by Deaconess Pat Haynes This blog is about Bible Basics ~ what every Christian Believer ought to know. I am writing this blog to the women of our church family who may not be attending our ongoing Women Bible Study (WBS). I am aware that there may be several reasons not to attend a WBS. It may be time, or you may feel you don’t know your bible well enough or maybe you had a negative experience with…
The Power of Praise
“The Power of Praise” Elder Jim Shedd 9/15/18 Acts 16 covers a part of Paul’s second missionary journey (with Luke, Timothy, and Silas) when they are directed by the Holy Spirit to leave Asia and go into Macedonia. Acts 16:6-10 Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to…
A Legacy from Paul – yes Timothy, it was all worth it
A Legacy from Paul – yes Timothy, it was all worth it Introduction: For anyone – Christian or not – it is fair to ask if following Jesus Christ with all the attendant problems this seems to bring (especially in our society today) is really worth it. Paul’s last letter addresses this very question to Timothy, a young man whom Paul has mentored. We all can come to ask the same question when the going gets tough, so let’s see…
Developing the discipline of praying for others Elder Homer Haynes
Pray for others too: Recently, as I contemplated my prayer needs, God spoke through the confusion I was experiencing: What about the needs of others? Don’t forget to petition God the Father for the needs of others. Immediately I remembered my numerous prayer lists, the members of my family, church family, single parents, singles, couples, widows, orphans, co-workers, prisoners, and other acquaintances. I see the names, and the faces, I see the written, and spoken prayer requests. And in the…
Dance before the Lord?
Dance before the Lord? 2 Samuel 6:14 And David danced before the Lord with all his might. I’ve always loved to dance. I was a teenager in the 80’s when there were no rules to dancing. My friends and I would form a circle on the dance floor and take turns showing our best moves in the middle of our boogie arena. With every new move that was shared we would cheer with delight. Thirty years later,…
Prayer, a powerful weapon: Elder Homer Haynes
Prayer, a powerful weapon: As I continue to mature in-Christ, I’ve come to the realization that prayer is the most valuable tool in the Christian tool chest. I need prayer, the people I meet need prayer, and the world needs prayer. There is not one day I’ve experience where prayer is not a factor in my life and in the lives of those around me. I am convinced that Christians are continuously buffeted with attacks from the princes and principalities…
God’s Ways
GOD’S WAYS GOD’S WAYS: The biblical God is one who insists He will be seen in nature, and also is one who gives leave to chance (randomness) – he allows free will and injustice. So is He in control? The greatest point of contention between science and religion arises when believers insist God directly controls nature (like a puppeteer) while scientists insist that nature can run “on its own”. Which is right? According to the Bible, that divine control…
Who is Jesus…..Really??
Paul, in his letter to the Colossians, writes in response to some false and destructive teachings on the gospel message being spread in the early years of Christianity. These were not unique to that time, however, for we are faced with similar distortions today. Interestingly Paul never specifically identifies or confronts the actual false messages, but simply presents Christ as the CENTER of our faith; the very image of God, the Creator, the sustainer of all things, the fullness of…
Matthew 6:12 Devotion
CBF Elder Devotion Matthew 6:12 “Forgive us our trespasses as forgive those who have trespassed against us. As part of the “Lord’s Prayer”, many of us may mention this passage almost automatically and not give much thought to what it actually says. If we pay some attention on what we are really asking God here, however, at best it is puzzling and at worst is frightening. Consider; I Jn 1:8-9 “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves…
Ramblings about the Lord’s Prayer
ELDER DEVOTIONAL… As I mature in Christ, the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:1-4 increases in impact to my daily life. For example, I was taught the Lord’s Prayer in Sunday school as a little boy. I learned to blast through the prayer in record time, proud of the accomplishment. Nonetheless, I didn’t know that the Lord’s Prayer was part of scripture, located in Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:1-4. When I joined the Catholic Church, the prayer’s relationship…
“We Were Made in God’s Image”
ELDER DEVOTION “We Were Made in God’s Image” Malachi 3:3 The Setting: Malachi was written about 100 years after the Jews had been restored to their homeland as part of the Persian Empire, and was probably the last prophet of the OT era. Although the Jews had been allowed to return from exile and rebuild the temple, several discouraging factors brought about a general religious malaise in their nation: (1) their land remained but a small province in the backwaters…
