First Christian Church of Bargersville

09/13/2026

We had another amazing grocery giveaway yesterday! We served 19 households, which offers help to 61 of our neighbors!

09/12/2026

Tomorrow, all are welcome as we host our next fellowship lunch. Bring your favorite board game or card game, and then stick around after service for some food and fun!

Lunch will be provided. All are welcome!

09/11/2026

Tomorrow is our next Grocery Giveaway!

Share with anyone in the community who may need some extra help right now.

Our pastor and a few elders will be present to offer prayer to anyone who would like as well.

09/10/2026

09/09/2026

LECTIONARY REFLECTION -- 9.06.2026 (Pastor Dustin)

(Psalm 119:33-40) As I read this psalm, I find on the surface of its words some comfort in what it assumes about our relationship with God. In particular, it seems to bespeak the kind of relationship of reliance, trust, and care that is more intimate than many of the other psalms assume.

While I wouldn't go so far as to say it speaks of the kind of relationship intimated in other places in scripture, it does depict one whereby we can approach God as a student approaches a teacher, as a disciple would approach a guru, as a child strives to learn from a parental figure.

In particular, the psalmist is seeking guidance and assistance when it comes to their depth of faith and trust. They are faithful, but they desire more understanding, more clarity, more wisdom, which is something I think many of us have desired in our own faith journeys. The struggle, I have found, is that what we're really asking for is not anything the psalmist is, but rather what we're looking for is certainty, the kind that doesn't come when we're talking about matters of faith.

The psalmist is seeking God's guidance, tempered with grace, for he knows that his faith is human and often lacking in discernment and understanding. | deeply resonate with this, as my own faith has often sought after certainty first and only asked for God's wisdom and guidance when it is abundantly clear that certainty is not forthcoming. What about you?

One of the things I've experienced in my pastoral service is our culture primes us to want certainty, while faith in Jesus requires trust that may never have full certitude. We trust because we believe in the person and work of Jesus, and the goodness of God, and we do this even as we hold on to doubts in the backs of our minds.

When this is where we find ourselves, maybe we just need to pray along with the psalmist, "God, give me understanding; God, give me a deeper trust. And in the midst of it all, just give me grace."

09/07/2026

Check out yesterday's sermon in our series "Good News for Our Neighbors" at !

09/05/2026

for our next Grocery Giveaway, which will be next Saturday, September 12th!

Share with anyone in the community who may need some extra help right now.

Our pastor and a few elders will be present to offer prayer to anyone who would like as well.

09/04/2026

We'll be hosting our next fellowship lunch on Sunday, Sept. 13th. Bring your favorite board game or card game, and then stick around after service for some food and fun!

Lunch will be provided. All are welcome!

09/03/2026

If you've been touched by the ministry of or found value in our in-person or online presence, would you consider giving to support the continued work of this local congregation! You can do so through our online giving platform.

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Thank you to all who generously support our ministry!

09/02/2026

LECTIONARY REFLECTION -- 8.30.2026 (Pastor Dustin)

(Exodus 3:1-15) For those who have grown up in church or around the bible, you may very familiar with this text. Moses and the burning bush is one of those stories that, taken as a whole, is foundational to the story of Israel and their exodus from Egypt. And yet, it's also the story of a man receiving a call from God and radically changing his life to respond to that call...even if he didn't believe he had the gifts, talents, or abilities to fulfill that call.

But, that's not what I want to focus on with this reflection. Instead, I want to reflect upon the call itself. In particular, the event of Moses meeting God in the burning bush. For many, it would be easy to read Moses' call story and just keep on going, missing one of the most crucial details from my perspective. Specifically, early in the text, Moses makes an intentional choice to go over and look intently at what's happening with the bush (i.e., it doesn't burn up though it's on fire).

For Moses to notice this, he had to: (1) notice that the bush was on fire; (2) stay long enough to see that it wasn't burning up; and (3) listen intently for the voice of God, understanding that this was something special. I wonder what would have happened if Moses simply glanced in the direction of a bush on fire (something that likely wasn't out of the question where he lived) and kept on moving.

Or what if he didn't stay long enough to see that though the bush was on fire, it wasn't being consumed...Moses had an amazing experience with God, but only
because he was open to it and because he didn't rush by. I wonder how I often I've missed an experience with God because I was too busy or too distracted to notice my own burning bush moment. I wonder if you've felt this way too, at times...and maybe you've felt like you missed hearing from God.

Well, the beautiful part of our relationship with God is that I don't think God gives up that easily, even when we miss it the first time. God is a God of second and third and fourth chances, and I'm hopeful that the times I've missed hearing God's voice, God has kept speaking