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Family Worship From the Pastor’s Desk August 11, 2024 To worship the Lord is to exalt or lift high his name with praise for his glorious...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Jul 28
- 3 min
Law of Sin
“I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.” This is a sober...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Jul 21
- 3 min
Trust and Obey
Trust and Obey From the Pastor’s Desk July 21, 2024 To walk by faith is to believe what the Lord says more than we believe our eyes,...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Jan 28
- 3 min
The Christian Not a Hater
Our faith would look very different and be hardly worth the name if our Lord had gone to the cross fussing and fuming. If anyone could...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Jan 21
- 5 min
We Have a Big God
How big is your God? One significant contributing factor to widespread discouragement, anger, despair, and even what is classified as...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Aug 20, 2023
- 4 min
The Savior of Education
As the school year begins, one might well ask the reason for the hubbub, traffic, and colossal expenditure. If there was a grand societal...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Jun 4, 2023
- 3 min
Three Invincible Truths for Parents
The Lord’s directions to parents are different from worldly wisdom. He will not bless any parenting that does not exalt his Son. Christ...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- May 7, 2023
- 3 min
Keep Yourselves in God’s Love
God loves us. “The Father himself loves you” (John 16:27). The Holy Spirit loves us (Rom. 15:30). The Lord Jesus loved us and gave...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Mar 13, 2023
- 4 min
The Sinner’s Relief and Liberty in Jesus Christ
Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Mar 5, 2023
- 6 min
The Heart of a Child
Godly parents are a challenge to the heart of a child. By godly I mean those who have more than a form of religion (2 Tim. 3:5) and know...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Feb 5, 2023
- 5 min
Guilt and Its Divine Remedy
Man is made in God’s image, to be like him, mirroring his holiness, knowledge, and righteousness. Sin has marred this image, but it has...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Jan 29, 2023
- 6 min
The Christian and Sorrow
The Scriptures speak of a kind of sorrow that is a “howling” of soul (Ps. 77:3), a wounded or crushed spirit (Prov. 18:14), and an...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Jan 22, 2023
- 3 min
Serving Jesus Christ
It is a relished aspect of modern life to look forward to the next fun or big thing – an afternoon playing video games, a vacation, an...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Nov 13, 2022
- 3 min
To Glorify God
Each man and woman is created in God’s image to glorify him. We glorify God when, like a mirror, we reflect his beauty, holiness, and...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Oct 30, 2022
- 3 min
On Our Master’s Mission
The idol behind all other idols is the “my will first” sinner. It was Satan’s first lie: “You shall be as gods, determining good and evil...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Oct 23, 2022
- 6 min
The Beast We Face
It is humiliating before the Lord to face that your own national government is an extension of Satan’s kingdom of lying, theft, and...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Oct 16, 2022
- 5 min
Sin, Repentance, and Forgiveness
Some years ago, I corresponded with a murderer. While in prison, the Lord saved him. He said something to me I will never forget. “I know...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Oct 4, 2022
- 4 min
Wheels of Providence
God’s providence is his “preserving and governing all his creatures, ordering them and all their actions, to his own glory.” Ezekiel...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- Aug 14, 2022
- 3 min
Jacob and Joseph
The boy Joseph spent much time with his father. Jacob was Joseph’s “living Bible.” Jacob and Joseph, perhaps with little Benjamin in tow,...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
- May 1, 2022
- 5 min
He Would Not Drink
From the Pastor’s Desk May 1, 2022 He Would Not Drink No incident recorded in our Lord’s life is without interest to the believer. No...
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