by Justin Marple | Nov 23, 2009 | COMMUNITY
Yesterday’s presbytery meeting was encouraging. I was encouraged by the welcome that the presbytery gave to me, I was encouraged by the members of the Niagara PNC who came to the meeting by their presence and words, I was encouraged by the opportunities to...
by Justin Marple | Nov 16, 2009 | COMMUNITY
One of the things that really encouraged me last Sunday was to see many of our youth come to worship. The church is a multi-generational community where we learn in practice with one another the lessons of the school of Christ that build one another up in love. One...
by Justin Marple | Nov 9, 2009 | COMMUNITY
I like to tell Presbyterians that we should be the blissful blessed and not the frozen chosen. It always amazes me as I visit those who are unable to come to church how they will often point me to Jesus and are very aware of how blessed they are. Suffering can bring...
by Justin Marple | Nov 2, 2009 | COMMUNITY
Inspired by my home visits this week, we went up to see Old Fort Niagara. This is a picture of a well in “the Castle” at the fort. Wells have great significance in the Bible because of the importance of water to the physical body. Song of Songs even...
by Justin Marple | Oct 26, 2009 | COMMUNITY
Niagara is an incredibly hardworking congregation. After putting in long hours yesterday at the church bazaar (not to mention all of the long hours of preparation that went into it and the regularly-scheduled hard work of the various other committees and...
by Justin Marple | Oct 19, 2009 | COMMUNITY
The Holy Spirit is indeed a Spirit of order and not only did God bring order out of those beginnings in Genesis 1 but much of the work of ministry that we all share requires that He make order out of the beginnings in our lives. Thus this week in many respects has...
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