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Beatitudes
First Church Family, I pray that you are doing well. We are a month and a half past Christmas and well into the New Year. While that is hard to believe, I am remembering the areas of growth and challenge we experienced in 2022 as we followed Jesus. And I must say that I’m tremendously excited about the places God is going to lead us in 2023. Over the past weeks in worship, we have been exploring Jesus’ Beatitudes. The word “beatitude”…
February News
First Church Family: Happy New Year! It seems almost too late to share that, doesn’t it, as we are already well into 2023. But the happiness I wish for you is the happiness that Jesus talked about in the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-12) – the passage on which we will focus in worship over the coming weeks; for the term “blessed” that Jesus used really means “happy,” though in a different way that we usually think about it. Please be…