Peace Be With You! – December 1, 2024
The title for this message just jumped off the page at me because Jesus says it three times in this one short passage. Verse 19, verse 21, and again in verse 26. “Peace Be With You!” Pastor Matt Mitchell preaching…
Continue to Message...While It Was Still Dark – November 24, 2024
Jesus was dead and buried. For the last several weeks, we’ve been reading how our Lord Jesus was betrayed in the darkness, arrested in the darkness, interrogated, denied, slapped around, drug around from court to court, mocked, scourged, shamed, and executed. …
Continue to Message...Here Is Your King – November 10, 2024
The title of this message comes from the mouth of Pontius Pilate in chapter 19, verse 14. We’re going to see that he didn’t really mean it. Pilate didn’t really believe that Jesus was the king or he wouldn’t have…
Continue to Message...Who Is It You Want? – November 3, 2024
In John 18, we’re in the night before the Cross. Jesus has met with His disciples, washed their feet, given them the Farewell Teachings, and prayed the Real Lord’s Prayer, His great prayer of consecration. Praying for His glory to…
Continue to Message...That All of Them May Be One, Father – October 27, 2024
The Lord Jesus was praying for you. On the night before He went to the Cross, our Lord Jesus Christ prayed the most profound and heartfelt prayer consecrating Himself to do His Father’s will to fulfill His Father’s mission, sanctifying…
Continue to Message...The Joyful Sacrifice of Faith in God’s Mission – October 20, 2024
Our guest preacher, who is one of our ReachGlobal missionaries who serves with Community Impact Malawi, Fred Cressman, preaching on Hebrews 11:1-16. You can listen here or “Right-Click” and “Save-As” to download the sermon: “The Joyful Sacrifice of Faith in…
Continue to Message...This story is the announcement by an angel to that humble young Jewish woman named Mary that the first Christmas was coming, that the Christ was coming, not just someday but now, and not just to her house, but to…
Read MoreThere once was a wicked man named Haman, and he hated the Jews. He was their enemy. This Haman was a leader in the kingdom of Persia in the fifth century before Christ, and he was very very proud. Narcissistic…
Read MoreOur story is not over yet. The Tale of Queen Esther did not end with the death of the wicked Haman at the tail end of chapter 7. Pastor Matt Mitchell preaching on Esther 8:1-17. Full manuscript available on Pastor…
Read MoreWe have finally reached “Queen Esther’s Banquet.” It’s actually Queen Esther’s Second Banquet, isn’t it? Because she put one on in chapter 5, as well. Pastor Matt Mitchell preaching on Esther 7:1-10. Full manuscript available on Pastor Matt’s blog. You can listen…
Read MoreTiming is everything. In so many areas of life, so much comes down to timing. What happened when. How fast something unfolded. What came first. What came last. What happened at just the right time…or at just the wrong time!…
Read MoreQueen Esther is about to do the bravest thing she has ever done. Queen Esther is about to embark on what might be, for her, a suicide mission. She is going to take her life into her own hands and…
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255 Cotohisc Road
Lanse, PA 16849
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- Where Is God? -- The Tale of Queen Esther December 15, 2025