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February 16, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Tags: love, God, eternal life, Jesus, salvation, redemption, repentance, greatest gift
Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to theLord's Day. John Taylor Smith was the honorary chaplain to Queen Victoria and the Chaplain General of the British Army during World War I. John Smith used to ask all the candidates for the chaplaincy one question:Now, I want you to show me how you would deal with a man. We will suppose I am a sold...
Keep ReadingFebruary 7, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Tags: love, God, grace, Jesus, redemption, repentance, John Newton, Amazing Grace
Today we continue with our sermon series "God's Blueprint for the Church." Our 4th message, An Example of Grace focuses on the writer of Amazing Grace, John Newton. Join us again and for the next few weeks as we continue to carefully study 1st Timothy a marvelous letter. John Newton, was a wild, drunken sailor. His language was so foul that the captain, hardly a model o...
Keep ReadingFebruary 2, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Tags: love, God, Jesus, forgiveness, repent, repentance, healing, healing power
Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to theLord's Day. Corrie ten Boom is one of my heroes because of her ability to forgive! She wrote a number of wonderfully encouraging books about her experiences as a prisoner during World War II. Her crime, along with other family members, was hiding Jews in her home in order to escape from the Nazis du...
Keep ReadingSeptember 27, 2020 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Tags: love, God, eternal life, Jesus, salvation, forgiveness, sin, family, repentance
Dear Members and Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to our service this coming Lord's Day! One of the lessons I'm going to share from our study of Gideon in Judges 6 is that family relationships can be the most challenging. This is particularly true in spiritual matters, particularly evangelism. One of the greatest burdens on earth is reali...
Keep ReadingJune 30, 2020 by James Thacher | Category: Mud Pies and Memories | Tags: love, God, Jesus, salvation, faith, repentance, rescue
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that we have been freely given to us by God.(1 Corinthians 2:12, NKJV) When God enters our lives, we're changed by His grace, even if we don't think it worked. One day some friends invited a student nurse to a camp meeting in the suburbs. Wavering but not wanti...
Keep ReadingNovember 12, 2019 by James Thacher | Tags: love, God, Marriage, Jesus, family, repentance
Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD listened and heard them; so a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the LORD and who meditate on His name. (Malachi 3:16, NKJV) Gazing at the actuarial charts, I realized that at age 83 the fact is that my projected life span was short. I've been blessed with a full and frutfiul life...
Keep ReadingMarch 30, 2019 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Tags: 9/11, love, God, Jesus, forgiveness, sin, repentance, Justification
Justification, What does this mean for me that I've been justified by Jesus' sacrifice? ...
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