End of year need: $708,671 I had to hold back the tears when it happened. Each year Bill and Janice Jernberg and Paige and Jeremy Pendery get our first graders ready to receive their brand new Bible with their names on it. During the semester they learn Bible verses...
End of year need: $967,326 It seems to happen every year: we pray over, write and then adopt a budget that will guide our work together for the year. Through the course of the year, we give 75% of the budget in 11 months. Then each year we come into December needing...
Last Sunday evening I spoke at a CBF Oklahoma event. I rarely make my way up north, but when I do I make sure to stop and see my grandmother. I decided to surprise her for lunch. She did her usual, “You couldn’t call so I could at least have my teeth in?” As we sat at...
It’s fascinating how the book of Romans, which is used to discriminate between groups of people, shares this Scripture with us today: “Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.” That’s surely not the...
Preparing for worship - Timothy Peoples, senior pastor. I remember as a child singing the song, “God wants somebody that’s real. Somebody that’s saved and sanctified and Holy Ghost-filled.” One particular Sunday, my uncle entered the pulpit to preach a sermon titled...
Preparing for Worship - Timothy Peoples, senior pastor. It is said that during the march in Selma, the people chanted “We shall overcome” as they walked the rough streets. The Jews in the group chanted the same, but in Hebrew. As I read that part of the story, it made...
Preparing For Worship - Timothy Peoples, senior pastor. There is an ancient myth regarding the origin of red roses. The Greek goddess Aphrodite fell in love with Adonis, a passionate hunter and the son of Myrrha and Theia. One day, Adonis went into the forest in...
Preparing for Worship - Timothy Peoples, senior pastor. I have had some dance parties all by myself lately. It all started one night when my Spotify music channel played Whitney Houston’s “Step by Step.” I have no idea what came over me, but dance moves I have never...