Posts with the category “from-the-pastor-s-desk”

The #1 Reason Guests Return to Church“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers.” -Hebrews 13:2 Thom Rainer is a pastor and Christian author from whom I have benefitted greatly. In his book, “Be...  Read More

3 Reasons to Walk for Life“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” –Psalm 139:13-14 On April 6, Christ Pres...  Read More

3 People to Bring to Church On Easter“How are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard?” -Romans 10:14 Can I share a few statistics to encourage you? Pew  Research has found that people Go...  Read More

3 Reasons to Volunteer in the CPC Youth Group“One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.” –Psalm 145:4 Last Sunday, I asked for volunteers, especially fema...  Read More

3 Reasons to Download the CPC AppLast year we launched our own Christ Presbyterian Church app. The app is the best way to stay up to date with all that is going on at the church! Here are three reason...  Read More

CPC’s New Parking Lot“Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to ser...  Read More

3 Reflections on the Daddy-Daughter Dance“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” –Proverbs 22:6 Fatherhood is central to the Biblical story and cent...  Read More

The Importance of Hospitality in Ministry“Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a...  Read More

5 Prayers for CPC in 2024“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus through...  Read More

Building Project Phase 1 – Office MoveLast Sunday at CPC, the Session announced Phase 1 of our new building project. This first phase will consist of moving the church office into a portable on-site o...  Read More

An Abundant Ministry Part 5 – A Blessing Is Given“And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disci...  Read More

Extend an Invitation“82% of people would come to church if a friend invited them.”-Results of a Lifeway Research Poll Does the statistic cited above shock you? It certainly shocked me the first time I...  Read More

Giving Tuesday – A New Way to Give“On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.” -1 Corint...  Read More

An Abundant Ministry Part 4 – Preparations Are Made“There were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, ‘Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.’ And they did so, and had them ...  Read More

An Abundant Ministry:Part 3 – A Command Is Given“But he said to them, ‘You give them something to eat.’ They said, ‘We have no more than five loaves and two fish – unless we are to go and buy food for...  Read More

An Abundant Ministry: Part 2 – A Need Arises“Now the day began to wear away, and the twelve came and said to him, ‘Send the crowd away to go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find lodgi...  Read More

An Abundant Ministry:Part 1 - People Gather“And he took them and withdrew apart to a town called Bethsaida. When the crowds learned it, they followed him, and he welcomed them and spoke to them of the...  Read More

What Do Pastors Do All Week?Part 2“This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order.” –Titus 1:5 Last week I began answering the question, “What do pastors do all week?”...  Read More

What Do Pastors Do All Week?Part 1“Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching . . . practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all my s...  Read More

Church Questions“If recent trends in religious switching continue, Christians could makeup less than half of the U.S. population within a few decades.” -Pew Research Center Both data and experience te...  Read More

Dry Grass and Dry Bones“The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. And he led me around among ...  Read More

Volunteer Spotlight – AV Team“On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret . . . getting into one of the boats, which was ...  Read More

Why Wednesdays?“When there is no growth, there is no life. Those Christians, therefore ,who are most diligent in attending upon the Word in public and private, will be the most likely to progress in p...  Read More

3 Ways You Can Help On Sunday“Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.” -1 Peter 4:9-10  On ...  Read More

Catechism“A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.” - Luke 6:40 A new school year is about to begin. It seems appropriate, therefore, to be ...  Read More

Have We Neglected Our Baptismal Vows?“Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.” – Mark 10:14 Weston Blaha is an EPC pastor in Marshall, Texas and a dear...  Read More

The Need for Christian Mentoring“Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise up, and each would stand at his tent door, and watch Moses until he had gone into the tent.” –Exodus 33:...  Read More

3 Reflections on General Assembly 2023“Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity.”-Psalm 133:1The EPC held it’s annual denominational meeting in Denver, Colorado. We met to wors...  Read More

The Need for Patience in Evangelism“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season, we will reap, if we do not give up.”-Galatians 6:9 As many of you know, my wife Shannon and I have a ten...  Read More

3 Reasons to Volunteer for VBS“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children.”-Deuteronomy 6:6-7Vacation Bible School is quickly app...  Read More

Reaching for Hope“Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, ‘Father, into Your hands I commit my spirit! ’And having said this, He breathed His last.” - Luke 23:46 These last weeks defy descrip...  Read More

3 Habits to Maintain This Summer“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works ,not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all t...  Read More

Parking - A Praise and A Request“Behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich. And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not.”...  Read More

Volunteer Spotlight – Kitchen Crew“Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun.”-Ecclesiastes 5:18Hospital...  Read More

“When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts?” –Isaiah 1:12The book of Isaiah was written as a wake up call to God’s chosen people. The Israelites were a dee...  Read More

“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom all fatherhood in heaven and on earth is named.” –Ephesians 3:14-15Ephesians teaches us that human fathers are to model their fatherhood on...  Read More

Grace, Grace, God’s Grace“But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” – Romans 5:8Last Tuesday night, the historic EPC church at Port Gibson, Mississippi wa...  Read More