Aug 30, 2020

Pastor Kevin Butler had asked us to do a hymn sing for Conference in Grand Rapids this summer. So Pastor John Pethtel asked us to videotape a hymn sing for the virtual conference. We asked our Shiloh folks if they could come to church one evening and sing with us (safely and 6 feet apart!) so we would have a fuller sound. Some people did come out—and we sang...

Aug 29, 2020

  By Eric Bofinger This year’s Gospel Feet 5k was a huge success! Despite not being able to race in person, the SDBs banded together and took on the challenge of running, walking, or even swimming a 5k, in order to raise money for global missions. Everyone stood behind this year’s scripture verse from Acts 20:24: “My only aim is to finish the race and complete...

Aug 29, 2020

John 5:39-40 and 2 Timothy 3:14-17 By Matthew Butler I lied. When I was in 4th grade, I thought it’d be “cool” to wear glasses. So, I lied. I told my parents and teachers that I was having a hard time seeing the board. I would intentionally “strain” my eyes and squint in order to display my “struggle.” Truth is, I could see just fine. But I wanted to be “cool”...

Aug 29, 2020

John 1:1 and Hebrews 1:1-3     By Matthew Butler A few months ago, after one of our worship gatherings at Grace Point Church, I spotted an old acquaintance who used to attend our church. He had been a part of Grace Point and was in fact an elder candidate shortly before we arrived in Las Vegas. Our time together had been just a matter of months before he was...

Aug 29, 2020

Everyday Theology Applications for Questions of the Faith By Pastor Phil Lawton A Christian Response to a Grieving Country In 1969, a woman by the name of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote a book called On Death and Dying. In the book she talked about what she called the stages of grief. She argued that as a terminally ill patient grows closer to death their grief...