Entries Tagged as ‘Sunday Service’
New Hope Christian Fellowship Christmas Service Schedule
Published December 10, 2011Where will you celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, this year? Please join us for a Christmas Eve communion service at White Mountain Christian Church (find the Google map location here), 7:00 PM. On Christmas Day, we will not have Sunday School. Our regular worship time of 10:30 AM will be observed. We are still meeting at American Indian Christian Mission until our church building is completed. You can find AICM by clicking this link.
read moreRestaurant Christianity
Published August 19, 2011Do you have a favorite restaurant? I know that when Margaret and I visit our children in Phoenix we often go to a local restaurant for a meal together. There are a lot of choices. In fact, in the one mall that they live near we can choose from Olive Garden, Outback Steak House, Red Lobster, Chili’s, Luby’s, etc. It’s an eater’s paradise. Well, it’s the same with churches. We’ve got 38 choices up here in the White Mountains of Arizona between Show Low, Pinetop-Lakeside and Snowflake-Taylor, and Christians seem to make church choices the same way they make restaurant [...]
read moreWhat’s the Use of Church?
Published June 25, 2011This title may not inspire you. You know what the church is, right? It’s the place where you go on Sunday to fulfill your religious duty, and hope that this gets you some credit before God. But, if the truth were known, you’d rather be at home, or out recreating, than sitting through another Sunday service. Is this too harsh? Maybe. Is it truthful? Oh, yes. In fact I had a Christian friend, who’s active in his church, tell me as much with a tinge of guilt. Why feel this way? Well, first of all, church takes work. You can’t [...]
read moreRecovering the New Testament Church
Published August 12, 2010Home churches are all the rage now as believers reject the traditional church and seek a new religious satisfaction. They seem to think that by cutting out a paid clergy, buildings, doctrine and ecclesiastical order they’ll effectively find the New Testament church. I wonder. I recently spoke with one of our former members who lives near Tulsa, OK. She is part of a splinter group that is starting a home church. Jean gave them a copy of our “Church Organizational Pamphlet” to keep from reinventing the wheel. Their pastor liked it, and he asked for more info, which I sent. [...]
read moreCOS – Church on Sunday
Published June 15, 2010We’ve been traveling in Oklahoma and Texas. Wherever we go I’m interested in other churches and who they are and what they’re doing. Ran across one in Grove, OK, on Grand Lake that mystifies me. We drove by it and noticed the sign: COS. That’s what the sign in front of this nice looking, large building, with a big parking lot said: COS. I didn’t get it. It was obviously a church, but the bold declaration across the top of the sign was just three letters in caps. My wife called my attention to the line below, which I thought [...]
read moreA Message From Pastor Tom
Published July 10, 2009This Sunday, the 12th of July, we will be having a barbecue immediately following the service in honor of associate pastor Mark Clements and his wife, Cynthia. They are moving back east and we will miss them greatly. Everyone is invited to join us for burgers and hot dogs and a whole lot more. We welcome all who can attend.
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