by Steven Baines | Mar 3, 2020 | News
Tuesday, March 3 Nicodemus’ silent night visit to Jesus could have been interpreted as an evil visit or to have a private meeting not to be seen. Nicodemus was a “ruler of the Jews,” and a member of the Sanhedrin (also known as the Council). Jesus was an unknown...
by Steven Baines | Mar 2, 2020 | News
Monday, March 2 – John 3:1-17 God sacrifices His Son for our salvation and our everlasting life! Wow! I hesitated to select this passage for a meditation because it encapsulates so much of the Christian message in just a few phrases – phrases that have...
by Steven Baines | Mar 1, 2020 | News
Sunday, March 1 Editor’s Note: Sundays during Lent are known as “little Easters” when believers in the risen Christ join for prayer and worship. Today, we pause in preparation for our worship to God through a Lenten hymn or prayer. May these songs and prayers prepare...
by Steven Baines | Feb 29, 2020 | News
Saturday, February 29 The temptation of Jesus story is indeed a strange duck. It falls immediately after the baptism of Jesus where we hear the spirit of God declare, “this is my Beloved son with whom I am well pleased.” Call me a skeptic, but does a loving father...
by Michael McMahon | Feb 28, 2020 | Friday Music at Midday, News
Please join us at National City Christian Church on Friday, March 6, at 12:15 p.m., for our free weekly Music at Midday concert. Organist Timothy Duhr will perform music of two French composers, one each from the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Timothy Duhr is...
by Steven Baines | Feb 28, 2020 | News
Friday, February 28 The heading in my Bible refers to this time of temptation as, “Jesus is tested in the wilderness.” Have you ever been tested? Or had a period when you were forced to depend on God? I can only imagine that that is what it feels like when one is...
