Sunday Worship Service 10:00 am Sunday School 11:30 amEvening Worship 7:00 pmWednesday Prayer Group 7:30 pm6512 Western Turnpike (Route 20)P.O. Box 218Duanesburg, NY 12056518-895-2448A time of food and fellowship,followed by a celebration of the marriages in our congregation and community, and ending with a movie and dessert!For more info. call 895-2448
When you join us for worship, expect to be greeted warmly. We are a community of faith changed by the transforming power of Jesus Christ. Because of that, it is our desire that you join us as we worship the one true God. Our worship service is a blend of contemporary and traditional hymns. We place a high value on the Word of God, prayer and discipleship.
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one can boast.
- Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV.
Everlasting Father I’d like you to imagine that my wife has left our toddler home with me while she went out. I want him to know I love him so I decide to let him do whatever he’d like. Unfortunately, the thing he likes most is the glowing fire in our fireplace. He toddles over to it and I pull him away. He goes for it again and I pull him away again. This time he looks up with me with a pleading look in his cute, little eyes. I decide that he is too cute to deny. My heart wells up with love and I give him his way. I smile a contented smile as he crawls away, happy as a lark, toward his heart’s desire…the roaring fire. It’s dangerous…but isn’t letting our children do what makes them happy the best way to show love? OF COURSE NOT! How often have we tried the same with God? How often do we look at Him with pleading eyes and beg to have our own way? How many times have we gotten angry or frustrated when it becomes clear that He has other plans for us? How many times have we asked in our hearts, “Don’t you love me, God?” Earthly fathers certainly aren’t perfect. Many of us have had fathers who have failed us in some way. We sometimes treat our Everlasting Father as if He is like our earthly father because His discipline doesn’t seem very loving at times. He sometimes prevents us from doing what we want to do. But Scripture tells us that God is not like an earthly father: “Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! Matthew 7:9-11 God, the Everlasting Father, has a perfect point of view. He sees things we cannot. He protects us from ourselves because of His wonderful Fatherly love. When we feel like God is against us let’s remember that The LORD is righteous in all his ways and loving toward all he has made. Psalm 145:17. My prayer for us this Christmas season is perfectly expressed in Ephesians 3:16-19… I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
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Ken McHeard comes from Alexandria, VA. He is a graduate of State University of New York with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management. He has a Master of Divinity degree from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Christian Leadership and Management. He has a Family Development Credential from Cornell. He is married to Lisa and their children are TJ and Charis. He enjoys reading and working out. He desires to exalt God's name and word in his ministry.
