This Sunday, we continue our series in the book of Ruth; we are now looking at chapter 1, verses 19 – 22.  In this passage, our focus will be on attitude.  Here Naomi and Ruth return to Bethlehem, the place of God’s blessing and Naomi is not happy, and she lets everyone know about her…

This Sunday, we continue our series in the book of Ruth; we are now looking at chapter 1 verses 6 – 18.  In this passage, our focus will be tough choices in hard times.  Here tough choices are made by Naomi, Orpah and Ruth.  They have (all three) already made the choice to return to…

This Sunday, we continue our series in the book of Ruth; we are now looking at chapter 1 verses 3-5.  Here, after looking at Elimelech last week, we now look closely at Naomi’s struggles, her decisions and her terrible losses.  She moves out of the land of promise to Moab with her husband.  Did she…

This Sunday, we continue our series preaching through the book of Ruth; we are looking at chapter 1 verses 1-5.  Here we see many decisions being made as Elimelech considers his circumstances and makes a major decision to move his family to Moab.  Does he look at his situation correctly?  Does he talk to God…

This Sunday, as we continue our series preaching through the book of Ruth; we are doing an overview of this book.  In part 2 of this message begun last week; we now look at 2 more ways God is at work in these people’s lives; despite the fact that He does not do any major…

This Sunday, we continue our series preaching through the Old Testament book of Ruth.  As we continue an overview of this book, we now look at the way God works in this book; despite the fact that He does not do any major miracles or any major work clearly seen that it is the Lord…

This Sunday, we begin a series preaching verse-by-verse through the Old Testament book of Ruth.  As an overview, we will look at the 3 main characters, and note the grace of God in their lives.  We will look at the fact that even when they don’t see or know it; God is working (His grace)…

This Sunday, New Years Day, the Lord laid it on my heart to share with you a topical message (my first topical message here at HBC) that I wrote many years ago as a youth pastor.  Even preached it in Ukraine through an interpreter in 2008.  The theme of the message is based on the…

This Sunday, Christmas Day, we will go to the Christmas story text in Luke 2:1-20.  In this very familiar passage I have to ask this question: Why?  Why such a humble birth?  To such lowly insignificant people?  Besides God’s reasons that people wouldn’t hear, listen or notice; I believe there are lessons here in this…

This Sunday, we take a break from our series in the gospel of John and focus on the cross and celebrating the Lord’s supper.  Our text for this communion service is Matthew 26:36-46.  Here we want to examine the moments leading up to Christ’s arrest in the garden of Gethsemane.  As Jesus struggles to go…