Resolutions
Forget New Year’s Resolutions. While there is something about setting a resolution for the new year, try setting life-long resolutions. This is what young Jonathan Edwards did. In his early twenties he compiled a list…
Seeking Purpose
Living on Purpose – Part 2 Compiled by Grant Schwartzenberger The Why C. S. Lewis wrote in The Great Divorce, “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God,…
Resources for Living on Purpose
Bergen Church Vision, Mission, Values, and Strategy Vision God will be glorified and lives transformed – by our prayer, care, and sharing His Truth. Mission Sharing the gospel and equipping disciples, to become more like…
Living on Purpose – Part 1
The Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. John 5:19 (ESV) Do not be conformed to…
Responding To The Call
The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the…
Advent 2019 – Day 19
Note: the following is taken from hymnary.org Joy to the world! The Lord is come:let earth receive her King;let ev’ry heart prepare him room,and heav’n and nature sing,and heav’n and nature sing,and heav’n, and heav’n…
Advent 2019 – Day 18
Good News of Great Joy And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night… And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I…
Advent 2019 – Day 17
The good times of the wicked are short-lived; godless joy is only momentary.The evil might become world famous, strutting at the head of the celebrity parade,But still end up in a pile of dung. Job 20:5-7 Things…
Advent 2019 – Day 16
Jesus provides us with a new source of joy: himself. We are not satisfied with the things that our sinful nature craves because we are only completely satisfied with Jesus as our source of joy.…
Advent 2019 – Day 15
I have heard it said that when someone starts following Jesus, they begin to experience at the same time greater joy and sorrow than ever before. This is because our eyes are opened more and…
Advent 2019 – Day 14
The constant bombardment of life’s demands makes it challenging sometimes to live with inner peace. There is a passage in Philippians 4 that helps with this: …whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just,…
Advent 2019 – Day 13
I’m leaving you well and whole. The message of Jesus as he was preparing for the last days of his time on earth was that of comfort: My parting gift to you is peace. “I’m…