Cutlerville East Christian Reformed Church
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The Voice of Isaiah: HOPE
Isaiah has a beautiful dream of Israel’s future in Isaiah 35, where he dreams of a time when: The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the crocus, it will burst into blo...
The Voice of John the Baptist: REPENT!
“Would the CRC hire John the Baptist?” It’s an interesting question. John dressed funny: no three-piece suit or wingtip shoes for him; he had more of the jeans and work boots style. He had a strange diet. He had no tact ...
The Voice of Zechariah: FAITH
There had been no prophetic word from God for almost 400 years, since Malachi prophesied the coming of Elijah to prepare the way for the Messiah. Now the priests were shackled by tradition, the king was a tyrant, and the Romans were in co...
The Voice of Simeon: PEACE
As a child, Christmas was agonizingly slow in coming. Do you remember waiting, days dragging ever so slowly? Then it came and went too quickly, with life going back to ordinary. How would you like to wait, knowing that after Christmas all...
Repentance!
Is your life going in the right direction? God's direction? Repentance means to turn around and go a new direction. The start of a New Year is a great time to repent and start a new direction.
A Stormy Lesson
Scripture: Mark 4:35-41 The keeping, protecting power of Christ over his people is a truth we all need to understand and believe, because it is life changing. The disciples also had to learn this, and it may be what the storm they ...
Life Under the Son
Solomon had many questions. He searched for meaning in life under the sun. He engaged in horizontal living, under the heaven, without God in the picture. And his solution seems to be: If that's all there is, let's just enjoy ourselv...
Jesus the Demon Defeater
CS Lewis writes: There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves...
Of Time and Eternity
After everything else Solomon has said about the vanity and futility of life, we might expect him to say something pessimistic and very discouraging about time. He might have complained that time is short and we never have enough of it for all ...
Jesus the Faith Healer
Here we have a true picture of a faith healer and his healing, as he applies his power to sickness and death. But there couldn’t be a greater contrast between his two “patients” — a prominent leader of the local synagogue and an outcast, unclea...
Our Unshakable God Is in Control
We will celebrate the Cadets and GEMS programs by focusing on both their themes, which dovetail quite nicely. Both turn to God as the one who is in control, who is an unshakeable fortress. In whatever life throws our way, we also can and need t...
Ministering in the Midst of Unbelief
If Mark 5 was about faith, then Mark 6 is about unbelief. There were many times that Jesus was “burned” by unbelief, when he felt the pain of rejection. Perhaps the pain was most personal when it came from his hometown, Nazareth. He had several...
A Bridge over Troubled Waters
Ecclesiastes 4In the midst of the troubled world of the 1960s, a singer named Paul Simon wrote a prophetic song. When there's nothing but trouble, he sang, one thing will get you through: a friend. Solomon is singing this song in Ecclesiast...
A Matter of Conscience
While the previous story was about "friendlies," people Jesus knew and grew up with, now mark turns the story of an "unfriendly" Herod Antipas, and his flashback on the demise of John the Baptist. When the prophet John clashed with Herod Antipa...
Meaningful Worship
Solomon now turns his observant eye toward man as worshiper, and he didn't like what he saw. This too could be meaningless, event though it is our "above-the-sun" connection. Solomon warns well-meaning worshipers to "stay alert!"&nb...
Fed by the Bread of Life
Have you ever gotten so involved in work in some ministry - and there is so much to be done - that you have no time to eat and you worked yourself to exhaustion? Maybe it was a good exhaustion but it was exhaustion just the same. Je...
Financial Facts of Life - Ecclesiastes 5:8 - 6:12
We now listen to discourse on money, which sounds eerily familiar. But, as Solomon said in Ecclesiastes 3, there is nothing new under the sun. John Rockefeller once said, " I have made many millions, but they have brought me no happiness. I wou...
Worshiping with a Broken Vase
We now turn our focus to Lent. It is two days away from the Passover, which for the Jews was like the 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter all rolled into one. It was THE Jewish holiday/holy day. But not everyone was so festive...
The Truth is worth dying for. It's also worth living for.
This message explores the strength of Stephen's convictions about who Jesus was, and how we too should be strongly convicted to face the challenges of our culture and world and be prepared to face the consequences without hesitation.Scriptu...