Sermon – 9/1/2024
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Rev Eli Lietzau Click to listen online Click HERE to view/download the worship bulletin >>
Project Faith
Thank you, Lucy!
If you haven’t seen the Christmas tree in our sanctuary, take a look the next time when you attend our worship. Lucy completed her 2-year project of making Chrismons! Each one is hand-beaded by...
Question: Why do we refer to God as “Father?”
Answer: Christians have always referred to God as “Father.” This way of naming God is consistent with the way that God reveals himself in Holy Scriptures, in both the Old and New Testaments. It...
Question: What happens to those who have never heard the Gospel?
Answer: This question puzzles Christians, because it sets our understanding of salvation against our sense of what we think is fair. On the one hand, we confess that it is only through faith in...
Question: Why do we need such a complicated way of explaining the Word, which creates a lot of tension, hatred, mayhem, death, and complications with different churches, just to explain the same message?
Answer: This is an important question, which raises several good points. The history of the Christian church is filled with people and events which do not reflect well on Christianity. At different times, heresies...
Question: There are numerous passages in Scripture that refer to a person’s heart, soul, spirit, and/or mind. Are these four things the same?
Answer: There are two ideas of thought on this question: dichotomy and trichotomy. Dichotomists say that man consists of body and soul/spirit, while trichotomists say that man is made up of three separate entities: body,...
Question: Did God use the “Big Bang” to create the universe?
Some Christians are very much against the “Big Bang” theory. They see it as a non-believers’ attempt to try to explain the origin of the universe. They take this view because they do not...
Question: Do we believe that the bible is the inspired Word of God.
Answer: The easiest response to this is “Yes, we believe that all Scripture is God-inspired” – To back this up, you can refer to 1 Peter 1:16-20. From this passage, you will be able...
Question: Does God punish people for their sins; past and present?
RESPONSE: Wow, this is a tough question, one which has been asked in one form or another for centuries. My initial response is that I am totally inadequate to answer it with any degree...
Project Faith
There is in our world today a “Secret Quest for God!” It is secret because the inner longings and heart-felt questions asked by mankind are not clearly or easily understood as a personal “Quest...
