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Sunday School at 9:00am
Worship Service at 10:15am
Messages
More Pressure
We’re back in Nehemiah 6, where the wall is nearly finished and the opposition is louder than ever. If you’ve been with us through this series, you’ve seen the pattern: the closer God’s work gets to completion, the harder the pushback becomes. That shouldn’t surprise us. We live in a world caught in a cosmic battle, and when you set out to do something great for God, you should expect resistance. Most of us don’t have an enemy like Sanballat,…
Lifting Burdens
What if the biggest threat to your mission isn’t coming from the outside, but from the inside? In Nehemiah 5, the wall around Jerusalem is going up, the enemies have been silenced, and then the work grinds to a halt. Hungry families are mortgaging their homes and even selling their children into slavery, and the ones profiting are their own leaders. This message shows how unaddressed problems quietly erode our families, our churches, and our hearts. Watch how Nehemiah stops,…
Facing Opposition
Nehemiah’s wall is going up, and so is the opposition. In this message from our series through the book of Nehemiah, we look at Nehemiah 4 and how mockery, threats, and discouragement threaten to derail the work God called His people to do. We see how Nehemiah responded to critics by going to God first and then back to work. We also learn what it looks like to pray and act together, to encourage weary people, and to stand beside…
Blog Posts
The Story Our Scars Tell
Our scars tell the story of the life we have lived. They are a visible marker of the struggles we have gone through, evidence to the world of something we survived. Several years ago, my mother-in-law had surgery on both her knees. With fresh eight-inch scars down the front of each one, someone saw her in a skirt, pointed, and said, “Hey, you have new knees.” The scars told her story. Similarly, I watched a man walk into the gas…
Who Am I Really Trying to Please?
As part of our “Favorite Bible Verse” series, I got to share the verse that’s stuck with me for years: Galatians 1:10. “Obviously, I am not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.” (NLT) I first came across this verse not long after I recommitted my life to Jesus. I’d picked my Bible back up, started actually reading it, and this verse jumped off the…
The Author of Life: From the Cradle to the Cross to Eternity
Genesis 1:26-28, Psalm 127:3, John 10:10, and Romans 6:4-5 We are a people obsessed with life. We buy multivitamins and new shoes. We research sleep and track our steps. Some of us reach for creams that promise younger skin or dye our hair the color it was twenty years ago. We do all of this — almost instinctively — because something deep inside us refuses to let go of life. We want more of it. Better of it. Longer of…
Location Details
205 S. Grand St. Chariton, Iowa 50049
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Sunday School at 9:00 am
Sunday Service at 10:15 am