gigs

After being away for a few days visiting family, I finally feel in back my rhythm of work and ministry. Since being a back, I’ve lead music at my parent church, Bethel CRC, and wrote a proposal for a community development grant through AmeriCorp, among other things.

This week my focus has been prepping for the series of sermons I’m preaching this summer in various churches. I was thinking today about the honor and responsibility of preaching the Word, proclaiming the Good News of Christ. Ephesians 2:4-9 speaks to this: “4But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast.” I’m stoked to again bring this Good News of God’s grace toward us.

If you’re interested, I’d love to worship w/ you at one of my preaching gigs:
-July 19 - Bethel CRC in Lynden (http://www.bethelcrc.org/) @ 10:30am & 6pm
-July 26 & August 2 – Bridge Community Church in Langley, BC (http://bridgelangley.org/) @ 10:30am
-August 16 - Bethel CRC in Lynden @ 10:30am & 6pm
-August 23 – Mosaic Church in Bellingham (http://www.mosaicnw.com/) @ 10am
-September 13 - Bethel CRC in Lynden @ 10:30am