Every Believer A Witness Testimonials
I trust that following last Sunday’s message everyone has had the opportunity to edit and rewrite their personal testimony. Until this week our challenges have been to see people the […]
Entries by Robert Shaw
“Yo Mama!”
The Third commandment: Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Remember the days of “Your Mama” jokes? Yo mama’s so stupid…She stared at a cup […]
Blinding Investments
Pastor Chuck Smith: Life exists on two planes: the vertical and the horizontal. The vertical axis on which your life revolves is your relationship with God. The horizontal is your […]
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
There was an old song from the band Chicago Transit Authority back in 1969 titled, “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” There’s a line in the lyrics that […]
New Staff Member Coming Soon!
It is my great pleasure to introduce a new staff member to Bethany Church: Lincoln Lawing has accepted an invitation to work with our youth part-time beginning September 5. His efforts […]
Overflowing!
Colossians 2:6-7 “So then just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in Him, rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were […]
Up-Lift!
1 Timothy 2:8 I desire therefore that in every place men should pray, ….without anger or quarreling or resentment or doubt [in their minds], ….lifting up holy hands. People are having […]
God’s Phone Number and the 411
Do you know God’s phone number? Missionary to America, Zac Lyons, challenged us this Sunday to know God’s 411. There was a time before google that if we didn’t know […]
Praise Report
This morning while reviewing my emails I saw one that I thought I should share with you. During the service the Lord released a word of knowledge that someone’s lower […]
Freely Volunteering
1 Chronicles 29:17 I know also, my God, that You try the heart and delight in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things. And […]
Raise the Roof!
“How often do you get a chance to reach deep into history and bring something back?” –Rick Brown “Raise the Roof” was a PBS documentary regarding the reconstruction of an […]
Are You Making the Connection?
I don’t know if you’ve noticed the landscaping that has been done around the church lately – but it’s looking pretty good. This did not happen by itself. Last Friday […]
National Day of Prayer at Red Classic Transportation
Yesterday for the National Day of Prayer Robert Russell and I joined Ron and Lisa Drogan at Red Classic Transportation for the National Day of Prayer. We had a great […]
Being Saved and Seeing Jesus Are Not the Same
Is it enough to “be saved?” Is there something deeper we are all called to? Do you only see what Jesus has done for you; what He can do for […]
Transformation Church Assessment Meeting Results
Could you forward this to those you know aren’t necessarily reading the blogs or signed-up to receive them? What were the results of our Transformation Discovery Meeting? What are some […]
Church “Prayer Works” Room Open for Prayer at 2:00 PM!
Lisa Drogan will be in the “Prayer Works” Room to pray with anyone who wants to join her for National Day of Prayer. Please send her an email to let […]
From Hiding to Abiding
What do you do when you try to hear from God and hear nothing but your own thoughts bouncing around in your head? How is it that we believe more […]
Somethings Wrong?
How is it that an individual can read, and study the Bible and not hear God speak? How is it that they can know about God but not recognize the […]
Last Adam?
Other than losing their “lodging” in the Garden what was the primary thing Adam and Eve lost in the Garden of Eden? Was it that they were going to be […]
Ghost in the Machine
In 1981 the British rock band “Police” produced an album titled “Ghost in the Machine.” One of it’s songs “Spirits in the Material World” states the very thing Jesus […]
Doubt Your Doubt
John 20:25 AMP “So the other disciples kept telling him, We have seen the Lord! But he said to them, Unless I see in His hands the marks made by the […]
Can You Hear What I Hear?
John 15:7 AMP If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. In the 2016 movie “Copying Beethoven” […]
What Would Jesus Do?
John 15:4 Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.] Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding […]
Can You See Him?
Luke 24:16 AMP Classic “But their eyes were held, so that they did not recognize Him.” Scholars, theologians, and Christians for the past several years have debated why the Jesus […]
2017 State Convention – New Resolutions
At this years State Convention, two resolutions were adopted. You can read them below. Resolution Denouncing Racism WHEREAS, The Bible clearly teaches that God has created all men and women […]
God Speaks Through Signs and Wonders
God speaks through the riddles of signs and wonders inviting us to come to know Him
How To Interpret Symbols
Meditation on the ways that God speaks. How do you interpret the symbols in God’s language?
God Speaks Through Nature
A meditation on one of the ways that God speaks through His creation.
