Feb 5, 2015 | Pastor's Blog
Stress Faith, Hope, and Love The winter season. The new semester. The new financial year. We are firmly into 2015, and already it may seem to some of us that the year is out to get us. We have so much to do and so little time to do it. Combating stress and worry is...
Jan 29, 2015 | Pastor's Blog
One of the opportunities that has been on the front burner of the Interim Church Administrator’s plate is Wednesday Night Dinner (WND) at RRCB. From the first day on the job, this has been a topic of conversation by staff and church members alike. After four months,...
Jan 15, 2015 | Pastor's Blog |
One of the functions of the church is to stimulate passion and purpose in the life of its members. There are many different ways in which that can occur: study, worship, fellowship, projects, etc. Last week a few of us on the staff identified a rather unusual action...
Jan 8, 2015 | Missions, Pastor's Blog
What if somebody handed you a check for $500 and said, “do something good with this”? What would you do? What if that somebody was your church? That’s exactly what happened to members of Chicago’s LaSalle Street Church. In September, 320 of...
Dec 31, 2014 | Pastor's Blog
Rob Bell was an evangelical megachurch pastor in Michigan until he authored a book titled Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. His ministerial career imploded when he questioned the reality of Hell and whether people who...
Dec 23, 2014 | Pastor's Blog
Musically, Christmas provides an embarrassment of riches. There are glorious carols, hymns, canticles, folk songs, and oratorios in every imaginable language expressing the inner and outer meaning of the birth of Jesus. A great deal of this seasonal music also deals...
