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Annual Meeting 2025: How To Save Your Life (Mat. 10:39; Mat. 16:25; Luke 17:33; John 12:25)

by Elder Tim McCool (preached on March 7, 2025) At our 2025 Annual Meeting, we were blessed to have my brother, Elder Tim McCool, as the invited minister. On Friday night, he preached a powerful sermon about “how to save your life.” There are four places in the gospels where Jesus told people that, in…

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The Communion Service, Part 4: Our Focus at the Lord’s Table (Luke 22:19-20)

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on February 9, 2025) We have been studying the Scriptural foundations of the communion service, and we have seen the elements that we are to use, as well as the symbolism of this service. But how are we as individuals to approach this service? Some have refrained from the…

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The Communion Service, Part 3: Wine (Luke 22:19-20)

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on February 9, 2025) The communion service ought to be a “high point” on the yearly calendar of the local church. We have been examining how we observe this service, and in particular what elements we use in this church ordinance. Last time we looked at the unleavened bread,…

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The Communion Service, Part 2: Unleavened Bread (Luke 22:19-20)

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on February 2, 2025) As we began to see yesterday, the communion service is vital to the life and spiritual health of the local church. We continue today looking at this service, which we commonly call “The Lord’s Supper”. Join us as we learn more about how we should…

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The Communion Service, Part 1: An Overview (Luke 22:19-20)

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on February 2, 2025) As we approach our 2025 Annual Meeting, when we will observe the communion service, we pause from our series on Romans to examine the Scriptural foundation for our practice of observing the communion service, commonly called the Lord’s Supper. Please join us as we try…

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Pressing Into the Kingdom, Part 1 (Luke 16:16)

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on August 21, 2024) In Luke’s gospel, we read an important statement regarding our discipleship here on earth: “The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.” The phrase “presseth into it” means, literally, to…