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If you are looking for a church where the people are friendly, the Pastor preaches the Bible, and where God is worshipped in unity, with liberty...then you have come to the right place!
Pastor Don Preston
Pastor Preston delivered a wonderful message bringing hope to all of us who will suffer with depression. It is inevitable that all of us at some point in our lives will suffer with this illness. Pastor took us on a journey through Elijah's triumph's down to the point when Elijah succumbed to his fear. Elijah allowed an unholy woman to shake him to the point that he just wanted to die. Why, you may ask? Elijah was physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted. The most important elements the enemy of our soul will use to weigh us down. Elijah was not the only one who has ever suffered from depression. Job, David, Daniel, Joseph, John the baptist and many others have also suffered. But it is important to remember, they got back up. They did not allow their circumstances to overtake their life. We must follow their example and look to Jesus for the answer to our inner struggles. Most importantly, we must find rest. Yes, REST. Something that is foreign in our culture today. Give yourself this most important antidote. Get in the word and spend time with Him. He will bring you through those times you find it impossible to face the world. Your greatest works are yet before you. God didn't make any of us superhuman, he just made us human. So when the journey seems to great to bear, hold onto Jesus and He will carry you through!
Pastor Preston kicked off the Christmas Season with a Message entitled: “This Is the Season of Life.” Every day we are reminded that death is certain. The newspapers, news on T.V. are constantly reminding us of this fact with wars, tragedies, accidents and even the obituary section of every newspaper. The scriptures remind us of this as well. Yet, to every Christian this Season is a reminder to us that, “This Is the Season of Life and New Birth.” The Pastor asked us to take a walk through the killing fields of Satan’s World. Jesus made it very clear in John 10:10: Satan’s desire and purpose “was to come and kill, steal and to destroy.” Pastor reminded us of the nursery wards in any major hospital where crack babies were seen writhing in pain from withdraw. The Detox centers where alcoholics and addicts were shaking and convulsing in different stages of withdraw. The prisons, where aids victims, serial killers, domestic violence victims, sexual abuse offenders dwell. Satan’s World is a world filled with disease, addictions, heartache, despair, hopelessness, emptiness, perversion, sin, and death. Satan, as Jesus said, has truly “come to kill, steal and destroy.” This is just a glimpse at Satan’s World. Depressing? Yes, if you have no hope. However, God appears with “Healing in His Wings.” He brings to this world a “Season of Life and New Birth.” On a Judean hillside a baby is born out of sight and unnoticed. Why: to provide Redemption and Adoption, Forgiveness and Reconciliation. It would be Satan’s World that would kill the giver of life and hope but instead Jesus conquers Satan, death, hell and the grave on the cross and then on the third day Jesus rose from the dead defeating Satan and providing all mankind with “This Season of Life and New Birth.” The beauty of this Message of “Glad Tidings of Great Joy” is that we can experience salvation in this life and spend eternity in that place where the horrific scenes of Satan’s World will forever be destroyed. If you don’t have a personal experience with Jesus Christ, you can, if you confess your sins to Him, ask His forgiveness, and repent, turning to him in faith believing that He alone can save you. The scripture truly declares in Acts 4:12: “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”