From the Pastor’s Desk – Jan 13 2018

Good afternoon church family, we made it through our first full week of 2018!

“This second Sabbath of the new year, we wish to warmly welcome you to the Bronte Church family. We hope the year is off to a great start for each of you and that you are tracking well. The year is still ahead of us and it is in this early stage of the year we continue to think about what adjustments or changes we want to make in our lives, new challenges to tackle, old habits to break, new goals to achieve, and different directions to take and paths to pursue. Of greater importance, is our Christian experience and life – Where do want it to go? Where is it going? How will we get there? I posit to you that if our growth has been the same like the last several years of our life, it really has not grown, but rather, plateaued. Do you feel stagnant in your spiritual life? Like it is not going and growing? Well, if you do, there is hope if you really desire to change! We have been given now, today, the present. We can determine that no matter what, we are not going to stay the same. Someone has said, ‘the pain of change is far less than the pain of staying the same.’ The Apostle Paul gives us motivation in his victory speech, ‘Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus’ (Philippians 3:12-14). To not hinder our progress, there are some things we have to leave behind and let go of, in order that we press forward, onward, and upward! Let’s create a great year with God! Press on!”

– Pastor Daniel D. Saugh