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We meet for worship at 214 Spencer Street NE. Directions.
Service begins Sundays at 10:00AM.

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a joyful noise

There are few things more exhilarating than cheering with a massive crowd. Last Fall my son Trey took me to a University of Michigan football game—not just any game: Notre Dame. It was raining when we parked and stood in line for the bus to the stadium. It rained as we got off the bus…

future people

Paul’s letter to the church at Philippi is a future-oriented letter, written to people who are from the future. I don’t mean that Paul wrote Philippians to us today; he wrote it to the Philippians in the first century. I mean that the Philippians were future people. Though they lived in Philippi in the second…

tear down the high places

At Mount Sinai God made a covenant with the people of Israel. The words of the covenant were written on two tablets of stone; they were the Ten Commandments (Exodus 34:28). The Ten Commandments and the various laws that were given were the covenant God made with Israel. The Ten Commandments were a summary of…

Worship — May 03, 2020

This is Week Number 4,632 of our #scatteredassembly! Well, that’s what it feels like, yet our God is worthy of worship. Wherever you are, watch the videos in order, sing along with each song, listen to the Scripture reading, watch the childrens’ story and message, give, then join us on Zoom at 10:30 (details emailed…

God’s story

Often when we think of the book of Exodus we think of the actual exodus from Egypt. God rescued the people of Israel, along with a mixed multitude from other nations who joined them (Exodus 12:38), out of Egypt and therefore out of slavery and oppression. This is a significant part of the story of…