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!...
November 30, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Category: Spiritual Life | Tags: love, God, eternal life, Jesus, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, everlasting love
Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. Christmas carols will always be everyone's favorite holiday songspartly because there are so many good ones, and partly because we sing them for almost a whole month at the "most wonderful time of the year." Easter hymns are not far behind. But what about Thanksgiving hymns? Most of the traditiona...
Keep ReadingNovember 28, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Category: Next Sunday's Message | Tags: love, God, eternal life, Jesus, salvation, forgiveness, Thanksgiving, Thankful
As we enter the Holiday Season, we will depart from our current study on 1st Timothy and will begin a new series of sermons focusing on the upcoming Holidays. He should have known better. He never should have stayed at home alone while his army was fighting in the field. He never should have lingered late at night on his rooftop. He never should have set his eyes on tha...
Keep ReadingNovember 23, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Category: Spiritual Life | Tags: love, God, eternal life, Jesus, internet, progress, business, technology, Facebook
Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. Do you ever get overwhelmed by all the things you need to get done, and discouraged by all the things you probably won't? Almost every day, right? I've felt that way a number of times recently. I felt overloaded when I look at my office both here at the church and at home that is in disarray.I f...
Keep ReadingNovember 21, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Category: Spiritual Life, Spiritual Life | Tags: love, God, eternal life, Jesus, freedom, Abraham Lincoln, slavery, slave trade, ever lasting peace
At the time the Apostle Paul wrote his first letter to Timothy, half of the population of the Roman Empire - about sixty million people- were slaves. Many of them had been taken as prisoners of war by the Roman legions. Some were taken away out of their own countries, while others were kept captive within their own lands. Some slaves were highly educated, literate men a...
Keep ReadingNovember 16, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Category: Next Sunday's Message | Tags: God, Jesus, eternity, living, eternal salvation, live, die, dying
Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. This past week (Tuesday Friday) Connie and I attended a pastor's retreat sponsored by the Jackson Hole Bible College.We've been able to attend for the past 8 years and it is always a refreshing, encouraging, and learning experience.This year there was a great deal of discussion on the church's res...
Keep ReadingNovember 9, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Category: Spiritual Life | Tags: love, God, Jesus, salvation, Eternal love, truth, Adams Road, reality
Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. In last Sunday's message, I made reference to the fact that I grew up watching the TV program Perry Mason.I also watched the old Andy Griffith Show.For 8 seasons from 1960 to 1968,Andy Griffith was the sheriff of Mayberry, North Carolina, a fictional community of around 4,000 people.There were 259 ...
Keep ReadingNovember 7, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Category: Next Sunday's Message | Tags: God, eternal life, Jesus, salvation, Jerusalem, archeology, Holy Land
This Sunday we are blessed to have Scott Stripling, Ph.D. with us. Scott will sharewith us five examples of illumination from the biblical text and remind us that God's Word can be trusted in life and in death. Scott has been the Director of Excavations and Chief Archaeologist at Ancient Shiloh from 2017 to the present. Prior to that, he directed the excavations at Khi...
Keep ReadingNovember 4, 2021 by James Thacher | Category: Mother's Day, Mother's Day | Tags: love, God, Jesus, salvation, God's word, Psalm 119, longer Psalm
Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path (Psalm 119:105 KJV). We all know Psalm 119 is the longest Psalm and also the longest chapter in The Bible. Psalm 119 has 176 verses, and almost every verse mentions God's word. Let's examine these verses and meditate on how they describe what the Word of God does. Cleanse (v. 9) Not wander (v. 10) Not sin (v. 11...
Keep ReadingNovember 2, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Category: Next Sunday's Message | Tags: love, God, Jesus, salvation, candy, scary movies, Halloween, Stephen King, The Shinning, triumph over dead
Dear Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to Sunday. I hate scary movies.Connie will bear this out.Scary movies really do a number on my ever-so-fragile psyche. I refuse to watch them. Truth be told, they ought not bother me because writers like Stephen King, Clive Barker, Dean Koontz, and others are imagining how things would be in this world if Go...
Keep ReadingOctober 31, 2021 by Pastor Doug Hornok | Category: Next Sunday's Message | Tags: reformation, Luther, Lutheran, Martin Luther, 95 thesis, God, love, Jesus, salvation
This Sunday is Halloween and many will be celebrating it. It has become an event with parties, costumes, kids having fun and the ever famous trick or treat. But how did it all start, where did it start? Today we remember Reformation Sunday, let's not forget God is our Lord.In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints.Soon, A...
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