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Membership A. This morning we have the pleasure of receiving and welcoming a new member. 1. We are going to publicly welcome our newest member, Carol Abel… B. I have had opportunity to welcome many members over the almost 12 years that I have been pastor here. 1. Praise God! C. I wish I could tell you…

Today, I’m going to say something to you that isn’t true, or at least, it isn’t the whole truth. I’ll let you figure out which part isn’t the whole truth. One of the goals of an Ash Wednesday service is to remind of us our own mortality. The words that the celebrant speaks at the imposition of ashes…

Introduction 1818 - near Salzburg, Austria a young priest Josef Mohr was walking home after a play that reenacted Christ’s birth looked out a peaceful winter scene and penned the words to what would become one of the most beloved Christmas carols around the world. He went to the church organist Franz…

Welcome Welcome! We’re so glad that you are here tonight. Whether you be here in our sanctuary, out in our parking lot, or perhaps you’re listening online. Welcome. This is a special time of year. Christmas. It’s shrouded in wonder - the wonder of children and their eyes popping out with excitement as…

Order of Service Welcome - Christmas Day Hymn - Reading - In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from…

We are all searching for something. The ads have told us so. Maybe we have been poked and prodded to “make a list”. Our politicians tell us we are searching for their leadership. May I ask this evening, “what are you searching for?” Our world is hurting. We have drugs, disease, division and pain all…

Call to Worship Worship By Singing We Have a Savior Worship By Corporate Prayer Worship Thru Tithes and Offerings Worship By Singing O Come, All Ye Faithful # 89 Go Tell it On the Mountain #95 Worship By Hearing the Word What Did Jesus Bring You For Christmas? Christmas Day Service Titus 3:1-8 Pastor…

Welcome Good morning and welcome once again. Today, it is incredible to believer, we are at the start of the Advent season! As we have mentioned already, Advent is the time that we prepare our hearts for an “arrival,” someone is coming and we need to get ready. Some of you likely did some preparing this…

Prayer 1 Thessalonians 1:2–3 (LSB) We give thanks to God always for all of you, making mention of you in our prayers; 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ before our God and Father, In his opening words to the church at…

The Lordship of Jesus fulfills prophecy and challenges our assumptions about politics and religion.

God Keeps His Word The Christian mindset is perhaps for the most part one of thinking positive. Many of us have favorite verses that we can recite from memory of the Lord’s promises for blessings to us. And it is easy to read the Bible that way. Of course God is for us, because we believe in Him. God…

In our Scripture reading from John’s gospel, we read, “ We have seen his glory .” ( Jn 1:14 ) These words have the power to change your life, forever. For fifty-one years, Bob Edens was blind. Bob could not see anything. His world was a black hole. However, Bob did not let this stop him; he graduated…

Mary's song reminds us that God is mighty and merciful toward us.

Sermon Title: Certain Faith for Uncertain Times Series: Advent in Luke's Gospel: Let's Meet Jesus Sermon Passage: Luke 1:1-4 Scripture Reader: Chris Peters Introduction Good morning. I hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving. As our minds turn to celebrating the birth of our Savior during this Christmas…

Intro: The story is told of this woman who decided one day to try horseback riding. Now she had never ridden a horse before and had never had a lesson on how to ride a horse. And so she sees this horse and she says I’m going to ride this thing. And she hops onto that horse and it immediately begins to…

Carol Service 2021

We are on the cusp of celebrating the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s a day about love. But not some saccharine filled sappy kind of sweetness that some call love - this is the real kind of love. The Beatles told us: Love is all we need. But what is love? They didn’t define it. In the 70’s the Cap’n…

Welcome Good morning once again everyone, and welcome to church. Can you believe that Christmas is this week?! Where did this last month go? Remember that we will have our Christmas Eve service on Friday at 6:30 so make sure you come to that! This morning we are on our fourth Advent sermon, looking at…

Romans 14:10–12 says, “For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. . . . So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God” (ESV). Second Corinthians 5:10 tells us, “We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done…

Text Reading: Acts 8:1-4 . Title: Cultivate Love Review & Summary Saul made havock of the church. Last week, I turned my attention to the brief phrase in vs. 3: Acts 8:3 (KJV 1900) As for Saul, he made havock of the church , entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.…

Announcements Ambassador Baptist College Choir, Sunday night, December 11. Christmas Day @ SCBC, December 25 - Only one service on that day at 11 AM. Dwain Roache has asked us to renew our praying for his brother and sister, Dudley and Ceila. They need to be saved and Ceila has been told that her breast…

Does God Listen to Sinners? It’s a question that has haunted Christendom since the beginning. Does God Listen to Sinners? As we’ve been journeying through the Old Testament we’ve seen all kinds of evil done. Israel, God’s chosen people, the nation that God led out of Egypt, protected in the wilderness,…

Lily shares about how the willingness of God’s servants allow others to see the willingness of God.

God settles all accounts justly & graciously