Archive for July 2013

The Defense of Marriage Act has been in the news a lot lately. You may have seen Letters to the Editor in the newspaper and read guest editorials about it, mostly warning that if we don’t defend DOMA we are “sliding down a slippery slope” to quote one writer who was recently featured in our…

Mr. Ed O’Malley the president and CEO of the Kansas Leadership Center will be our guest on Sunday, July 21. Mr. O’Malley will be our speaker for Chat and Chew at 9:00 and our guest preacher. His visit is an opportunity for us to learn about the Center’s Leadership and Faith Initiative and the Circles…

The following letter is posted on the church notice board. The Office of General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) sent us a “Thank You” letter for our support of Benefits Ministries. For the first six months of 2013, PVCC contributed $787.76 to the Benefits Ministry funds of the Christian Church…

July 7, 2013 Galatians 3:23-29 Pine Valley Christian Church Rev. David Hansen We had a great 4th of July celebration with family and friends and I hope you did too wherever you were. Maybe you were on a picnic or with friends watching fireworks. And maybe, just maybe, sometime during the weekend you read or…

As we prepare to celebrate the 4th of July I offer this prayer for our nation and the church. It is an excerpt from a longer prayer written by Reinhold Niebuhr, but this petition seems very timely today. O Lord, unless you build the house, its builders will have toiled in vain. Unless you watch…