APRIL NEWSLETTER: X-TIAN

Greetings Christian friends! Spring has sprung and that causes our hearts to spring up and out with abundant amazement in our Creator’s wisdom, power, and handiwork Surely no one can question the divine ability of our God to do anything given the revelation which springtime brings with it. Just a few weeks ago the grass was brown and the trees were bare and dormant. But just look now! Is there a God or not? There is, and what a mighty God too! Every season, in nature and i

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MARCH NEWSLETTER: The Word

Hello to all this glorious day! March is normally a windy month and it should remind us of just how important the wind really is For something that cannot be seen nor controlled by man, the wind is one of the the greatest blessings God has granted His created world. Without the winds, this earth would literally burn up. Rain also cannot be manufactured by man, but when moisture is drawn up from the ocean surface by the wind and then carried across the continents by weather

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FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER: VICTORY

     February is here and it is clear that God loves us! After all, He died for us and now He lives for us. There is a beautiful human we sometimes sing entitled, "Because He Lives." The chorus is a most worthy theme for this newsletter, the month of February and really, for each day we live. 

"Because He lives, I can face tomorrow

Because He lives all fear is gone

Because I know He holds the future

And life is worth the living, just because He lives."

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JANUARY NEWSLETTER: KEYS TO THE KINGDOM - UP

     Happy New Year! As we begin this year of 2024, let's start it out happy. For sure, almighty God wants us to be happy because we've just finished celebrating His good tidings of great joy, the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. Anything new ought to make us happy. However, sometimes our problems and pains have a tendency to weigh us down and keep our happiness from floating, especially when the waters of trouble are turbulent, and our trials come up like riptides.

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DECEMBER NEWSLETTER: KEYS TO THE KINGDOM - TRUST

     Merry Christmas everyone! It sure doesn't seem like it's time to say that but it is. Rejoicing about the birth of our Lord and Savior should be a year=round response to God's most perfect gift from Heaven. Saying Merry Christmas applies to every circumstance and day of the year much like Thanksgiving does. In fact, God says we are to do both all the time.

Rejoice in the Lord always: and again, I say , Rejoice. Phillippians 4:4In everything give thanks; for this i...
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NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER: KEYS TO THE KINGDOM - STRENGTH

Hello Brothers and Sisters in Christ! Thank you for the wonderful Homecoming service God so graciously blessed us to celebrate on October 15th. I am convinced that some of the very best, salt of the earth people attend and worship the Lord at Four South Zetterower Avenue. This place is a "Grace Place" if there is one anywhere on earth. The local church is one of the rest areas along the highway of life where we can truly sit together in Heavenly Places.

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November Newsletter: TO THE KINGDOM: REJOICE

Greetings church family, I hope your days are hollowed with holiness and that you are helping as many people as you can. No doubt if this is your case, then you are also a happy person!Once we get holiness right, helpfulness becomes a redemptive reaction and happiness is the overflow. We should be like empty vessels before God every day. When we ask Him to fill us, He will do it, and even to an overflow.

"Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Tho...
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Keys To The Kingdom: Quickly

Greetings church family! Summertime is a time full of activities and adventuresome attitudes. Even though the heat causes us to sweat, summertime is still a sweet time. Nature is running at full speed and so are we. Summer is also vacation time. Whether we ‘get away’ at the beach or in our back yard, the best part is being with one another. Of course, anything that God’s not in won’t amount to much. This is particularly true of summertime and vacation time. 

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Keys to the Kingdom: Prayer

Greetings in Jesus’ name! I hope you are enjoying the summer and spending special time with your family too. Thank you for your faithfulness and commitment to worship the Lord publicly in the local church. It is truly a rich blessing from God to stand before such a beautiful congregation of folks that love Jesus and want to learn more about and follow Him. Even though America today offers many distractions, the gospel call is a stronger attraction.

July is freedom mont

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Keys to the Kingdom: Obedience

Gracious greetings to all! It's hard to believe that its already June. Where does time go? For sure, time flies and summertime not only brings flies, but also reminds us that time flies. Nature and our lives are in full swing now. The late spring and showers have made for a flush of greenery. The birds are singing and the bees are buzzing and all Christians should be rejoicing. Almighty God long ago promised that as long as the earth stands, there will be summertime.

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Keys to the Kingdom - Newness

Good morning brothers and sister in Christ! April showers really do bring May flowers. I have noticed flowers blooming in the most unlikely places this spring, like on the roadside, in the ditches and along the sidewalks of hospitals and hospice houses. Flowers are God’s nature messages reminding us there is hope and lots of reasons to be happy no matter the circumstances. God can say anything He wants to say and it is true and sometimes he says it with flowers. 

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Keys to the Kingdom - Mercy

Greetings church family! This time of year is especially encouraging because we see dead things coming to life, hear more melodious sounds and feel a little warmer too. When God sends the spring season, He puts a little spring in our steps too. Trees and grass that seemed dead prove to be only dormant. Shrubs that were bare and hardly noticed, suddenly catch our eye with showy, colorful blooms. The purple martins have arrived once again and their songs as they soar seem

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Keys To The Kingdom - Learner

What a blessing a church family is! There is nothing this side of Heaven better than being together at God’s table of grace with like minded people who love Jesus and each other. The prayers and fellowship kindle the felt presence of the Holy Spirit so that we surely know that by God’s grace we are made for and made to “sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” Not only does iron sharpen iron, but iron also makes a louder noise by contact with iron. Iron on wood wo...
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Keys To the Kingdom - Knowledge

Greetings along with good tidings of much grace from God to all of you this day. 2023 is moving right along and I hope you are as well. It’s not really all that important that we “keep up with the Joneses” as it is that we follow Jesus! Following Jesus keeps us going in the right direction. If you and I are trying to live selflessly and responsibly, even in deal- ing with our problems, we are into the new year in the right step. Putting your best foot forward means walking

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Keys to the Kingdom - Justification

Now that Christmas time is past, we can prepare for the new year with hope and courage. Celebrating Christmas brings new grace by having had a fresh look at the manger in Bethlehem. The babe in the manger would be our breath of life and the honor of His righteous life and the sweet savor of His sacrifice on the cross is certain to give us a taste for God. Christmas treats and table settings, often filled with sweets, cannot sustain us through 2023; but God can! It’s time t

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