UPDATE: Pastor Billy's self-quarantine is over!
Church family, The results from CJ’s COVID-19 test came back negative! Thanks for your prayers and support. Our family's self-quarantine...
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Pastoral Staff
- Jul 6, 2020
- 2 min
When a pastor isn't allowed to go to church
It’s a weird thing when a pastor isn’t allowed to go to church. That’s the unique situation I found myself in this past weekend. A family...
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Pastoral Staff
- Jul 3, 2020
- 3 min
Change Like Saul
Today’s devotion comes from Acts 9:1-19, you may have heard this before but let me refresh your mind, in this passage Saul starts out...
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Pastoral Staff
- Jul 3, 2020
- 2 min
Face masks and self-quarantine: This Sunday at Winfield Nazarene
Church family, Thursday afternoon we learned that a friend of CJ's tested positive for COVID-19, and CJ was potentially exposed to the...
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Pastoral Staff
- Jul 2, 2020
- 4 min
Bad Day, Good God
The day started at 3 in the morning on August 8th, 2019. This was one of my close friend's birthday's that I was going to miss because I...
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Pastoral Staff
- Jul 1, 2020
- 2 min
I Longed to Gather You
When Janet and I were first married my aunt and uncle gave us six white Plymouth Rock hens and a while later we acquired a Rhode Island...
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Pastoral Staff
- Jun 29, 2020
- 2 min
What are you Going to Wear Today?
What are you going to wear today? It’s a question we must answer every single day of our adult lives. Dress up? Go for comfort? Prepare...
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Pastoral Staff
- Jun 26, 2020
- 2 min
Anxiety
I’ve missed many opportunities in my life, because of a lack of action in the moment. My head runs through questions like, What will I...
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Pastoral Staff
- Jun 25, 2020
- 2 min
Work Heartily
As some of you may know, I have been working at Dillions as my summer job. For the most part, it is a great experience. The people that I...
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Pastoral Staff
- Jun 24, 2020
- 2 min
He Covers you There With his Hand
One summer I ran a trencher putting in miles and miles of ditches for miles and miles of PVC pipe. Most of the miles and miles of...
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Pastoral Staff
- Jun 23, 2020
- 1 min
Powerful Words
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. Psalm 19:14 (NIV) Our words...
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Pastoral Staff
- Jun 22, 2020
- 3 min
When God's Prophetic Message gets Weird
If you’re the type of person who likes to be liked and cares what others think of you, I would suggest that you never become a prophet....
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Pastoral Staff
- Jun 19, 2020
- 2 min
Prepare Your Soul
Back in the day, not like my parent's age, but the day of the ancient Jewish society marriages looked drastically different. Once a...
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Pastoral Staff
- Jun 18, 2020
- 2 min
Look for God
I see God in the strangest of things. Just the other day, when I was walking on the bridge that leads out of town towards Ark City, my...
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Pastoral Staff
- Jun 17, 2020
- 2 min
Be Still and Know That I am God
In my devotional last week I shared how my mom was remarried and her husband adopted me and how it parallels our adoption into the family...
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Pastoral Staff
- Jun 15, 2020
- 2 min
See You Sunday!
It’s time to open the church doors! I say that with a mixture of excitement, happiness, relief, hesitancy and apprehension. We have, to...
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Pastoral Staff
- Jun 12, 2020
- 2 min
Breaking Routine
I often fall into the habit of repeating the same routine throughout the day or when I perform certain tasks. For me this could look like...
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