June 25, 2022 by Pastor Doug Hornok
How do we make moral and godly choices in a world marred by sin?...
June 18, 2022 by Pastor Doug Hornok
Seven rules for a successful Christian marriage...
June 11, 2022
The Five Solas are Latin phrases that come from the 16th century Protestant Reformation that distinguish Midvalley Bible Church's theology and teaching from others. ...
June 2, 2022 by Pastor Doug Hornok
We often treat people wrongly because we judged them wrongly....
June 2, 2022 by Pastor Doug Hornok
This past week, the prayers of millions were answered as the Supreme Court appears to be posed to over-turn an almost 50-year court ruling that legalized abortion....
June 2, 2022 by Pastor Doug Hornok
The Asian hermit, Telemachus, lived in a remote village, tending his garden and spending much of his time in prayer. One day he thought he heard the voice of God telling him to go to Rome, so he obeyed, setting out on foot...
June 2, 2022
If you never hear anything again that I say or write, hear this: “Jesus Christ has welcomed you.”...
June 2, 2022 by Pastor Doug Hornok
Good friends are one of the greatest gifts of my life. In fact, friendships are one of the greatest gifts of God’s creation. God designed and created us to be in relationships. And no, I’m not talking about how many “friends” you have on Facebook!...
September 30, 2021 by James Thacher | Category: Mud Pies and Memories | Tags: love, God, David, eternal life, Jesus, salvation, suffering, Crucifixion, Psalms, King David, Passion of Christ
He also brought me out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps (Psalm 40:2 NKJV) As we all know, and believe The Bible is God's inspired word for us. We also believe all throughout the scriptures the coming of the Savior, Jesus was prophesized. We also believe Jesus is a direct descendent of King David and there for h...
Keep ReadingSeptember 25, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Category: Next Sunday's Message | Tags: love, God, Jesus, salvation, Devil, foundation, pillars, warrior
When engineerswant to take down an old skyscraper they put explosives at strategic places in the foundation. When they set it off, the building implodes. It is not surprising that Satan relentlessly tries to blow up the foundation of our faith, which is the Word of God. His very first temptation challenged Eve (Gen. 3:1), "Indeed, has God said ?" He has attempted to bring...
Keep ReadingSeptember 23, 2021 by James Thacher | Category: Mud Pies and Memories | Tags: God, Jesus, redemption, plan, organization, blue print, order, hierarchy, orderly
What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?(Psalm 8:4, NKJV) As the creator of all, God also had a master plan. Just as all organizations have a hierarchy or organizational structure, God established an order to all of His creation! God's hierarchy: God, then angels, man, and beasts. David marvels how God uses people on earth. Verses...
Keep ReadingSeptember 21, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Category: Spiritual Life | Tags: love, God, eternal life, Jesus, redemption, old, Dump, trash, refuse, waste, City Dump, discarded, renewed
Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. Joel Eidsness is the pastor of Walnut Hill community Church in Bethel, Connecticut.He decided to take his seven year old daughter on an unusual date.They visited the town dump. Backing his Oldsmobile up against the mound of refuse, he placed his daughter on the roof, and with pencil and paper, they...
Keep ReadingSeptember 16, 2021 by James Thacher | Category: Mud Pies and Memories | Tags: 9/11, God, David, Jesus, old testament, King David, Psalm, Psalm 2
Yet have I set My King in Zion on My holy hill of Zion" (Psalm 2:6, NKJV) Every book has these 3 basic parts, beginning, middle and end. In Psalm 1 and Psalm 2 we are introduced to the Psalter, and we can identify 4 distinct voices. FOUR VOICES OF PSALM 2 VOICE 1: (v.1-3) The Nation of Israel cast off restraint from God. The psalmist's amazement at the plans of...
Keep ReadingSeptember 14, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Category: Spiritual Life | Tags: 9/11, love, God, Jesus, New York, Twin towers, Flight 93, Pentagon
Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. I love anniversaries.I love reflecting on events that happened years earlier.Some of them can be painful; like the 20 year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, others are joyful; my 7-year-old grandson Nico Hornok was born on September 11, 2014. 68 years ago an article appeared in the Sal...
Keep ReadingSeptember 12, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Category: Next Sunday's Message | Tags: 9/11, love, God, Jesus, salvation, truth, foundation, pillars, cornerstone
A fitting hymn for our celebration Sunday is Thomas Obediah Chisholm's hymn, Great is Thy Faithfulness. Chisholm was born in a log cabin in Franklin, Kentucky in 1866. He received his education in a little country schoolhouse, and at age 16 began teaching at the same school. He became a Christian at age 27, and with no college or seminary training was ordained to the Me...
Keep ReadingSeptember 9, 2021 by James Thacher | Category: Mud Pies and Memories | Tags: love, God, David, Jesus, salvation, forgiveness, King David, Psalm
But his delight is in the law of the LORD and in His law he meditates day and night(Psalm 1:2, NKJV) As I continued reading and studying the Psalms, I truly enjoyed how our former Pastor Ken Hornok described Psalm 1. Pastor Ken expanded on these 5 main points, Separation from the world, Situated on the waterSaturated, Sanctified, and Satisfied by the Word of God. The go...
Keep ReadingSeptember 7, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Category: Spiritual Life | Tags: love, God, Jesus, salvation, Christian persecution, Afghanistan, Islam, Taliban, ISIS, ISIS-K
Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. No one can deny that in the wake of our withdrawal of remaining American troops from Afghanistan and the Taliban retaking cities previously liberated from their barbaric tyranny, the country has slipped back beneath the dark waters of fear and oppression. Today, the Taliban are armed to the teeth ...
Keep ReadingSeptember 6, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Category: Spiritual Life | Tags: love, God, eternal life, Jesus, salvation, redemption, forgiveness, Blood
This Sunday as we continue looking at the back story of some of the great hymns of our faith and their scriptural bases for those hymns; today we focused on "There is a Fountain Filled with Blood". There is no greater or more eternally important theme in all of Scripture than that of the shed blood of the sacrificial substitute. For example, when Paul writes in Romans 3...
Keep ReadingSeptember 2, 2021 by James Thacher | Category: Mud Pies and Memories | Tags: love, God, David, Jesus, worship, Psalms, King David
Now David himself says in the book of Psalms", Jesus (Luke 20:42a, NKJV). In the last post we explored the beginning of the Book of Psalms, today we conclude our study by reviewing some of the events that led to the writting of some Psalms. We also need to understand the characteristics of Hebrew poetry Religious lyric poetry expressing emotions Evocative language wi...
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