Memorial Day Message

May 29, 2023, Rev. Jack Phelps An American historian once stated that in all of history, no civilization has survived the loss of its faith. This statement is not to be doubted, but it has a corollary. That is, every civilization has a faith. Moreover, every...

The Greatest Event on Planet Earth

A Christmas Homily Virtually every period in human history is marked by a significant event, one that people remember and use to mark a turning point in the lives of men. Let us consider a few of them. The Fall of Adam in the Garden – This plunged mankind into...

Pharisaism: The Redefinition of Sin

We each claimed wisdom as our own But truth astounds all once it’s known Imre Madách The abandonment of the seven deadly sins as a paradigm for understanding the evil that men do has contributed, in the church, to the arrival and predominance of a new...

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

A Christmas Homily A Bit of History Originally penned by Charles Wesely in 1739. The song did not include the “chorus” at the end, repeating the first line of the song. The first line was slightly different from what we are used to. It proclaimed that the...

Reformation Day 2009

A Reformation play featuring CBC young people included this scene of a young John Calvin listening to a young William Farel.