
Pastor’s Note 1-1-23

“Happy New Year!” These three words bring hope and excitement this time of year.
Happy is what we all want to be. Happiness is a choice that we can make daily. We know what the opposite of happy is, it is sad. The weeping prophet Jeremiah wrote in Lamentations 3:21-23; This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning. We are happy when we get something new. New is what we like most. This new year offers new beginnings, new challenges, new expectations, new experiences and new opportunities. The apostle Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 5:17; Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
The old year is behind us and the new year lies ahead of us. The next 365 can bring something new into our lives. We need a new touch. We need a new and fresh anointing. God wants to do something new for you. I pray we walk in the newness of life in Jesus Christ every day. So instead of “Happy New Year” how about “Happy New Day!” Everyday can be happy in the Lord.
May God bless you in the new year 2023!
Pastor Hatter
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Pastor’s Note 12-1-22

As we quickly close out the month of giving thanks and enter the season of giving, we begin the hustle of purchasing things to give. We go seeking to find that perfect gift.
While we prepare for the time of exchanging gifts with our family and friends, we hand out gifts from a store that will fade into obscurity. Those gifts that once shone with splendor, will one day cease to shine. There are some gifts that will find their way to the local trash pile or the local Goodwill store. We give gifts that will soon have no meaning or purpose and that was never our intent, but time has a way of doing that to things.
James 1:17 (ISV) says; “Every good and perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father who made the heavenly lights…….”
The gift of the Holy Ghost offers several timeless gifts that have been freely given to mankind from the Creator of all things. This one gift brings so much to our lives like love, joy, peace, healing, grace, mercy, forgiveness, freedom and faith. All of these gifts didn’t come from a store, nicely wrapped in box, but these priceless gifts have been bestowed upon us from God above.
The God of all creation, wrapped himself in flesh and dwelt among us. He came to a stable in Bethlehem, wrapped in swaddling clothes. He gave the greatest gift of all, “Himself.” He is the perfect gift.
Pastor Hatter
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Pastor’s Note 8-1-22

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Pastor’s Note “Let Freedom Ring”

July 4th is the day that we as a nation celebrate the Declaration of Independence from the tyranny of Great Britain. The signing of this declaration by fifty-six men set forth a nation down the road of freedom.
Down the road of freedom many people fought and gave their lives so that we can remain free.
For 246 years now we are a nation that is still free and it would do us good to remember that freedom is never free, it comes with a great price.
We are free means that men and women down through the ages paid a great price and sacrificed for generations of people that they would never know.
We should never forget about what one man, Jesus Christ did for us, some 2,000 years ago, on Calvary’s cross to set us free from sin and shame. The sacrifice of His life, His death, His burial, His resurrection paid the ultimate price for our freedom.
Bill Gaither penned these words to a song, “Let freedom ring down through the ages from a hill called Calvary, let freedom ring wherever minds know what it means to be in chains, let freedom ring wherever hearts know pain, let freedom echo through the lonely streets where prisons have no key, we can be free and we can sing, let freedom ring.”
So, because of Jesus Christ, let freedom ring!
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