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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...
Pastoral Staff
Jul 7, 20201 min read
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Jul 7, 20200 min read
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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...
Pastoral Staff
Jul 6, 20202 min read
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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...
Pastoral Staff
Jul 3, 20203 min read
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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...
Pastoral Staff
Jul 3, 20202 min read
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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...
Pastoral Staff
Jul 2, 20204 min read
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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...
Pastoral Staff
Jul 1, 20202 min read
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Jun 30, 20200 min read
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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...
Pastoral Staff
Jun 29, 20202 min read
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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...
Pastoral Staff
Jun 26, 20202 min read
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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...
Pastoral Staff
Jun 25, 20202 min read
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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...
Pastoral Staff
Jun 24, 20202 min read
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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...
Pastoral Staff
Jun 23, 20201 min read
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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....
Pastoral Staff
Jun 22, 20203 min read
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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...
Pastoral Staff
Jun 19, 20202 min read
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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...
Pastoral Staff
Jun 18, 20202 min read
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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...
Pastoral Staff
Jun 17, 20202 min read
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Jun 16, 20200 min read
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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...
Pastoral Staff
Jun 15, 20202 min read
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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...
Pastoral Staff
Jun 12, 20202 min read
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