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May Update from FBC
May 2022 Dear FBC Church Family & Friends, Happy May! It’s so good to see and feel spring returning to western New York. We are enjoying more time outdoors again in God’s amazing creation. Looking for a place to serve? Come out for the May 14 Spring Clean up Day or help with the May […]
Continue ReadingFBC December Update
December 1, 2021 Dear FBC Friend, Snow is once again covering the ground and it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! We celebrate the coming or advent of Jesus Christ the Messiah this month. I hope you will you join us each week for the lighting of the Advent candles, the singing of old familiar […]
Continue ReadingEverlasting Love
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with graciously give us all thing? Romans 8:32 ESV God’s grand redemption plan from the very beginning required self-sacrificing love to free us from sin. We celebrate God’s great love at Christmas because he love […]
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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 ESV Jesus Christ (Messiah), the Son of God, came to bring peace to the world He created. Only He could fulfil […]
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For to us a child is born to us a son is given; and the government shall be on his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 ESV Jesus, the Messiah (Christ in Greek), came as a human yet divine brother so that we […]
Continue ReadingMighty God
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be on his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 ESV Jesus Christ, the Messiah, would be called “Mighty God” because he was fully God incarnate (in […]
Continue ReadingWonderful Counselor
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be on his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 ESV Jesus Christ, the Messiah who fulfilled this prophecy, brought hope to all the world as evidenced […]
Continue ReadingWho is king?
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Matthew 6:33 ESV The baby born in a stable in Bethlehem was King of kings and Lord of lords. The wise men came with royal gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh because they saw the star […]
Continue ReadingHope came down
Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 ESV With the advent of the Messiah, hope came into the world. Hope for reconciliation or peace with a holy, perfect God was born in a stable. Jesus, the Son of God, […]
Continue ReadingWhose Glory?
And He (Jesus) died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who for their sake died and was raised. 2 Corinthians 5:15 Jesus came to save us from our sin problem. That problem focuses all of our thoughts and desires in filling and getting glory for ourselves […]
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