Vacation Bible School

Our Vacation Bible School will be this year Kingdom Rock: Where Kids Stand Strong For God.  The activities will be June 10 - 14 from 9 - 11:30am starting in our Sanctuary.  Anyone interested in helping speak to Rev. Mark.  Otherwise come, learn and have a good time!

From the Pastor's Desk

Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

As a young boy I collected baseball cards.  Every Sunday my parents would take me to the local flea market after church, where I would search and search the vendors for baseball cards.  I would gather what money I had from my allowance and I would rummage through bins of baseball cards looking for the few cards I needed to complete whatever set I was working on.  After collecting the last cards needed to complete my set, I couldn’t wait for the next set to come out so I could begin to collect again.  Once I finished the set, I put it away never to be seen from again. 

Just as I had an unquenchable thirst for more baseball cards, so too do we have an unquenchable thirst for more of everything.  Just as I was not satisfied with the cards I did have, so too are we not satisfied with the things we already have.  Just as I was anxious to obtain the next pack of cards, so too are we anxious to obtain the next big thing.  Just as I was never content with the cards I did have, so too are we never content with the possessions we already have, we constantly search out for more.

More.  That word seems to be the lynchpin of our society.  We need more of everything.  We need more money to go buy more stuff.  We need more time, to make more money, to go buy more stuff.  We need more energy.  We need more sleep.  We need more space in the attic.  We need more land.  We need more livestock.  We need more tractors.  We need more gigabytes of data on our cell phones, more DVR space, more channels on our satellite TV, more money in our 401k, we need more…

But the insatiable need for more which is such a prevalent piece of our human nature is not to be found in Jesus Christ.  In the place of our rampant greed, we see instead something completely different, we see contentment.  Instead of having the anxiety of relentlessly pursuing more stuff, we see a man having peace being content with whatever he had or whatever he didn’t have. 

Is it no wonder then that Paul then writes in the letter to the Philippians that, I have learned to be content with whatever I have.  I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty.  In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need.  I can do all things through him who strengthens me. 

In the face of a world pressuring us to consume more, to seek after more, to pursue more, instead of succumbing to the temptation for more, we need to be strengthened by Christ to be content not with less, but with what we already have.  Whether it is a little or plenty, whether it is hungry or well-fed, whatever we already have, let us be content with what God has already given us and forsake the unending quest for more.  Let us no longer be the greedy, insatiable consumers like our society wants us to be, but let us instead be the satisfied, content disciples like our God wants us to be. 

In Christ,
Rev. Mark