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04/27/2026

Lord Hear Our Prayer Tim Pyles

Almighty God, our merciful Father in heaven,
We praise you and adore you, dear Lord, as the all-powerful Creator of everything that exists in heaven and on earth. We honor you as the Giver and Sustainer of life. We thank you, knowing that you are the Divine Source of every good and perfect gift that we have so abundantly received from your gracious and benevolent hand. Thank for our daily bread. Thank you for the blessings of physical safety, shelter, and comfort.
Above all, Father, we offer you our thanksgiving and our praise for the gift of salvation that you extended to us through your Son, Jesus the Messiah. Thank you, that, through the cleansing power of his sacrificial blood, our sins have been washed away. Thank you, that, through the penalty that he suffered for us on the cross, you do not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. As far as the east is from the west, so far have you removed our transgressions from us.
Father, we thank you that we have been quickened to new spiritual life, having been born again, born of the water and the Spirit, buried with Christ in likeness of his death, and raised with him in likeness of his resurrection. Thank you, Abba, that you have gifted us with your indwelling Holy Spirit, who lives within our physical bodies as a confirming seal of our identity as your sons and daughters, and as a downpayment of our eternal inheritance.
Thank you, precious Lord, for adding us to the assembly of your people, the church of your beloved Son. Thank you that, through him, we have been born into and adopted into your family, that we can know you as Father, and that Jesus is not ashamed to own us as his brothers and sisters, having lived and walked as we do in human flesh.
Thank you, that, in Jesus Christ, we have a faithful and merciful high priest who can sympathize with our weaknesses, and that, through him, we can offer this very prayer before your majestic throne with boldness and confidence, knowing that we will receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Loving Father, our times of need are so frequent, and our needs are so many. We ask, Sovereign Lord, that you provide for each and every one of us precisely what we need for today. For our brothers and sisters who are grieving the loss of loved ones, we ask that they be surrounded with an overwhelming sense of your presence, comfort, and peace.
For those who are battling cancer and for those combatting other chronic, debilitating illnesses, we ask that you uphold and sustain them, and that directly through your power and indirectly through their surgeries and treatments that you would strengthen, restore, and completely heal them. For those who are recovering from injuries and surgeries, bless them with patience and endurance as they go through recovery and rehabilitation. Alleviate their pain and restore their comfort.
For our siblings in Jesus who are struggling with mental illnesses, emotional disorders, suffering from severe depression, or feeling lonely and isolated, help them to feel within their spirit, Father, that they are not alone. Help them to sense your holy presence and to know that you will never leave them or forsake them, and that they are surrounded by a spiritual family who loves them and cares for them.
Abba, for the precious members of our physical families and our spiritual family who are not walking closely with Jesus, who are deeply struggling in their faith and wrestling with doubts, may we join with you in patiently calling them home through unconditional love and tender compassion, assured that they will be welcomed home with joy and celebration, in heaven and on earth.
Father, we lay our petitions and thanksgivings before you in the name of your Son and our Savior, Jesus Christ, laying claim to the promise that your Holy Spirit is interceding for us with groanings too deep for words.
Amen!

04/06/2026

A Resurrection Morning Prayer

Almighty God, our Heavenly Father,
We acknowledge you and praise you as the Lord of all creation, the one true and living God. In your triune nature as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, you called into being everything that exists in the cosmos by the sheer power of your creative Word. You spoke, and it was so. You said, “Let there be,” and there was.
Father, we confess our own personal guilt and responsibility in bringing darkness into this world. Like our first father and mother who yielded to temptation and fell in sin in the Garden, we too have followed in their steps. We have resisted and rebelled against your will. We have done what we know to be wrong. We have failed to do what we know to be right. None of us is righteous, not even one. We have all fallen short of your glory and stood condemned before your holiness, righteousness, and justice, and were destined for eternal separation from your glory.
We will thank you for all eternity, dear Sovereign Lord, that you are also compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in love and faithfulness. We thank you that your eternal Son emptied himself of his divine glory and heavenly privilege, became flesh, was born of a virgin, walked among us, lived without moral spot or ethical blemish, and willingly laid down his life as a perfect, once-for-all-time sacrifice for our sins. We thank you that, through the power of Jesus’ cleansing sacrificial blood, you have removed our sin, guilt, and shame from us, as far as the east is from the west. We thank you and praise you for your amazing, saving grace.
Righteous God, you have not only released us from the power of sin by your Son’s death, you have ransomed us from the grave and from the fear of death through his glorious resurrection. Thank you for the empty tomb. Thank you that our Lord Jesus Christ now holds the keys of death and hades, and that, one day, this last enemy will be placed in subjection under his feet. Thank you that death does not have the final word. Thank you that death is not terminal. Thank you that death itself will die.
Father, as those who have been united with Jesus in likeness of his death and raised with him in likeness of his resurrection, we long for the return of your Son. Just as the disciples of Jesus were overcome with sorrow, grief, confusion, and despair between the afternoon of his death and the morning of his resurrection, we too feel overwhelmed by the darkness that surrounds us and the evil that fills the earth. We see violence, injustice, cruelty, bloodshed, oppression, falsehood, pride, greed, impurity, and endless idols. Grant us strength to stand firm, patience to endure, and a resolve to not be overcome by evil, but to overcome evil with good. May your Son’s light shine through us into this present darkness. May we be your salt upon this earth. May others see our good works and come to glorify you.
Precious Lord, we are your grateful children. You have caused us to be reborn into a living hope through the resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ. And we believe, Father, that his resurrection is the absolute guarantee of our own. We rest in the hope that one bright day, sunshine will burst through these prisons of clay. We eagerly await the redemption of these bodies of death, and to be clothed with immortality and light. Maranatha! Come, Lord Jesus!
Father, we offer you our eternal thanks through Jesus Christ your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit forever and ever, world without end.
Amen.

03/24/2026

Jesus’ death was not the result of a panicking cosmological engineer. The cross wasn’t a tragic surprise. Calvary was not a knee-jerk response to a world plummeting toward destruction. It wasn’t a patch-up job or a stop-gap measure. The death of the Son of God was anything but an unexpected peril. No, it was part of an incredible plan. A calculated choice.
The moment the forbidden fruit touched the lips of Eve, the shadow of a cross appeared on the horizon. And between that moment and the moment the man with the mallet placed the spike against the wrist of God, a master plan was fulfilled.
What does that mean? It means Jesus planned his own sacrifice. It means he willingly placed the iron ore in the heart of the earth from which the nails would be cast. It means he voluntarily placed his Judas in the womb of a woman. It means Christ was the one who set in motion the political machinery that would send Pilate to Jerusalem. And it also means he didn’t have to do it—but he did.
It was no accident—would that it had been! Even the cruelest of criminals is spared the agony of having his death sentence read to him before his life even begins. But Jesus was born crucified. Whenever he became conscious of who he was, he also became conscious of what he had to do. The cross-shaped shadow could always be seen. And the screams of hell’s imprisoned could always be heard.
This explains the glint of determination on his face as he turned to go to Jerusalem for the last time. He was on his death march (Luke 9:51). This explains the resoluteness in the words, “The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own accord” (John 10:17-18). The cross explains why John the Baptist introduced Jesus to the crowds as the “Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29).
Maybe the cross was why he so loved children. They represented the very thing he would have to give: Life.
The ropes used to tie his hands and the soldiers used to lead him to the cross were unnecessary. They were incidental. Had they not been there, had there been no trial, no Pilate, and no crowd, he would have done it. For it was not the soldiers who killed him, nor the screams of the mob: It was his devotion to us.
So, call it what you wish: An act of grace. A plan of redemption. A martyr’s sacrifice. But whatever you call it, don’t call it an accident. It was anything but that.
(Excerpt from The Gift for All People by Max Lucado, p.49-51)

03/17/2026

Tomorrow is Friday, the 13th of March. I make mention of that fact, not out of any sense of silly superstition about the number 13 in general or misgivings about that day of the month falling on a Friday, but simply because of the significance of this particular date and day to me.
While I regularly (very regularly!) lose track of where I set down my coffee mug and my cell phone, my memory still functions quite well in regard to the day, month, and year on which important events have taken place in my life and in the lives of loved ones and friends.
The 2026 calendar mirrors that of 2020. Those numbers don’t appear to be very far apart, but a vast historical and cultural chasm exists between them.
On Friday, March 13, 2020, I was at home with Coleman. Kim and Wendy Lee had taken a couple of car loads of our high school girls down to Gerry and Darla Lynn’s place on Fort Gibson Lake for a weekend retreat. Late that afternoon I took the opportunity to cut down and dig out the roots of a weeping Japanese maple that, quite sadly, had died in the landscaping near our front door. I was replacing it with a coralburst crabapple.
On Tuesday of that week, I had planted a spring snow crabapple further out in the front yard with no physical difficulties whatsoever. However, as I cut and chopped and dug at the Japanese maple roots, I found myself getting quickly gassed and having to take frequent breathers. It was a cool, damp, and dreary day, and I was working in a light, misty rain, which just added to my achy misery. “So, this is what it feels like to be 57,” I thought to myself. It was by the hardest that I got the coralburst crabapple in the ground.
As it turns out, it wasn’t my age that had leeched the strength and stamina from my body. It was my first day of experiencing symptoms from having contracted COVID-19 the previous weekend in Oklahoma City at the Affirming the Faith seminar (where I was again this past weekend, incidentally!).
Several of the elders and I met at the church building on Saturday morning to discuss what we needed to do about church services that weekend as things were rapidly shutting down all across the country. The decision was made, out of an abundance of caution, to cancel services for the following day, March 15, in full anticipation that measures could be taken the following week that would allow us to assemble on March 22. It would be May 31 before the next in-person gathering of our church family would take place.
The weeks and months that followed seem more and more like a distant, bad dream. Still, it is good to reflect and remember how we as a church family, under the leadership of our shepherds, adjusted, adapted, shifted, persisted, and remained faithful through that unforeseen global pandemic. Praise God for that! And praise God for how he has led, guided, and provided for our church family in the six years that have followed.
“How are the trees doing, Tim?” I’m so glad you asked! The spring snow crabapple is currently covered in an abundance of tiny, brilliantly-white blossoms, fully embracing its identity and living up to its name. And our COVID tree? The coralburst crabapple will soon be ablaze with hot pink buds and soft pink blossoms (see right ). I stood and looked at it for a long time this morning in the dawn’s early light, and thanked our gracious Father for his love and faithfulness.
Tim Pyles

03/01/2026

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02/17/2026

BEAUTY FROM BROKENNESS TIM PYLES

A terminal illness. The death of a child. A freak accident. The loss of a job. Dementia. A broken marriage. A miscarriage. Bankruptcy. Mental illness. Birth defects. A church split. A stock market crash. A lawsuit.
As people struggle through such difficulties and hardships and seek solace in the midst of life’s storms, they will sometimes say (or someone will say to them), “I believe that everything happens for a reason. I just have to accept God’s will in this.” As Biblical support for their outlook, they will reference passages like Romans 8:28, “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” I fully believe in the truth and power of that verse, but I believe that there are some things that it affirms and some things that it does not.
Scripture does not teach fatalism, determinism, or micro-managed predestination in which God manipulates outcomes and purposefully moves lives and events around like pieces on a chessboard. Romans 8:28 does not state that “God causes all things.” While life and history may be said to unfold within the boundaries of God’s “permissive will,” that does not mean that every success or failure, victory or defeat is the result of his “explicit will.” God permits every man, woman, and child created in his image to make his or her own choices. He has placed us in a world governed and ordered by natural laws and physical forces that most often bless us, but have the potential to harm or kill us.
So, Romans 8:28 doesn’t teach that everything happens for a reason, or that sense can somehow be made out of senseless events. But what it does affirm is that our sovereign God is so powerful that he can take any single tragedy in our lives or any imaginable combination and succession of tragedies and use them for the purposes of good and blessing, both for ourselves and for others. That is an amazing God! A lesser god would wield his will like a club, enforce conformity, compel obedience, and only then could he accomplish his purposes. The God of heaven says, “Give me any set of negative circumstances, whether brought about by yourself, or created by forces and influences beyond your control, and I will find a way for it to result in blessing and the accomplishment of my will for your life.”
Joseph is a classic example of such workings of God’s providential will. God did not make Joseph’s brothers despise him with jealous hatred. He did not make them sell their own flesh and blood like a common slave. He did not make Potiphar’s wife lust for him, repeatedly try to seduce him, and then falsely accuse him of attempted r**e. He did not cause Pharaoh’s cupbearer to forget about him and leave him in prison for another two years. God allowed all of those individuals to make their own choices, including evil ones, and enact their own will, and still he used those events for the blessing of Joseph, the preservation of Jacob’s extended family, and the sustaining of life in the entire region of Egypt. Joseph’s brothers “meant it for evil,” but God used it for good (Gen. 50:20).
Our son Coleman wasn’t born with Dubowitz Syndrome and autism 33 years ago for some “reason” or just so that some “greater good” could be served. Yet, God has graciously brought about incalculable good, immense joy, and innumerable blessings for him, our family, and a multitude of people throughout his life. God hasn’t done this so that we would now understand the reason “why.” There is no such reason. Our loving Father just specializes in taking things that are broken and making them beautiful. He takes senseless circumstances and gives them meaning and significance. Such is the power, the grace, and love of our God!

02/09/2026

Coming in just a few short weeks! Join us for a powerful night of praise with fellow believers!

02/02/2026

Jesus What Have You Done Scott Keele

Alison Cunningham was her name, and she was the devoted nurse of Robert Louis Stevenson (author best known for Treasure Island), whose short life was one long illness. Edmund Gosse, his friend, described Robert’s life as a “painful and hurrying pilgrimage.”
Alison was selflessly devoted to serving Robert, and he never forgot her. He adored her and praised her lavishly for her good influence on him. In a letter to her, he said, “Do not suppose that I shall ever forget those long, bitter nights, when I coughed, and coughed, and was so unhappy, and you were so patient and loving with a sick child. Indeed, Cummy, I wish that I might become a man worth talking of, if it were only that you should not have thrown away your pains.”
Alison had indeed invested her life in the author, and because of that kind of investment, Robert will ultimately describe himself as coming around “like a well-handled ship” with God as the helmsman.
What Alison did for Robert, Christ has done and continues to do for a whole world, in every generation. But this Messiah does it, not for a weak and grateful child—he does it for a rebellious planet populated by billions of humans who either cannot, do not, or will not gladly submit to his care or join him in his purposes.
“I came,” He said, “not to rob but to rescue, not to cheat but to give, not to kill but to offer fullness of life.” But can He do it? Well, perhaps not “can” He do it, but will He continue to “want” to do it when people like us can be so hard, so selfish, so indifferent, so self-serving and weak? Will He not one day—looking at many of us in our love of ease and comfort—will He not throw up his hands and say, “I’ve given them My best and they’re no different. They’re still only thinking of themselves. No more! I’ve done enough; the job’s too great.” Will He not say that?
Yes... yes, we may know where all the verses are that say otherwise, but don’t you sometimes look inside and then around and wonder about humanity’s colossal arrogance? Our amazing self-assurance? Do you ever feel our ungrateful and disobedient lives must surely test His resolve? Does it ever stagger you that we can put out our hands and take the gift of His life with a politeness as if someone just passed us the salt? Why would He put up with it?
The answer? There is no human reason to do so. Human wisdom says, enough is enough. But The Plan from the beginning was one of Rescue motivated by love! It was one of throwing a life-line, extending a hand over the side of a boat, reaching for the souls who can no longer tread water. But it honestly isn’t just a reach, a grab, and a pull into the boat. It is a switching of places. He didn’t just do what it took to forgive us of sin, He took our sin upon Himself. And it is not, “Jesus, what are you prepared to do?” It is, “Jesus, what have you done?”
And He, knowing our fears, our sins, and self-doubts, assures us that He will do what it takes to get the job done, and he lies down on a cross and dies. He didn’t do this thinking it was a breeze. He knew that His incarnation was only the beginning and the cross was not the end. And then, because there’s nowhere else to go, don’t we sigh deep within us, “O Lord, I wish that I might become a person worth talking of, if it were only that you should not have thrown your pain away.”
—Adapted from an article written by Jim McGuiggan

01/30/2026

If you’d like to come encourage Jacob as he heads to Army Basic Training on Monday come by the Kilmer’s home this evening between 6:30-8:00

01/26/2026

Between D-Day and V-Day Tim Pyles

In June of 1994, thousands of U.S. military veterans returned to the coast of France to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Normandy Invasion that occurred during World War II. As another example of just how swiftly time passes in this life, in just 18 more years it will have been a full century since American, British, Canadian, French, and other Allied troops stormed the beaches and cliffs of Normandy. “Operation Overlord” was the codename for the Battle of Normandy which was launched on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The fighting was fierce, and the casualties were enormous.
The invasion of Normandy came at a critical time. The war in Europe was just beginning to lean in favor of the Allies. The hard-fought, blood-bought success at Normandy ensured what was to follow: the liberation of France and the defeat of Hitler’s Germany.
D-Day is viewed by many as the decisive turning point in the European campaign. However, many battles remained to be fought before the ultimate fall of the Third Reich. It would be some time yet before V-Day when the enemy would be vanquished and the warring would cease.
In the years that have followed World War II, our lives as soldiers of Christ have often been compared to living between D-Day and V-Day.
The day that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was raised by the power of the Father and victoriously came forth from the grave was our D-Day. Until that glorious morning, the situation for Jesus’ disciples had seemed completely hopeless. They had witnessed the enemies of their Teacher succeed in having Jesus crucified. His life had been brought to an end in the humiliation and shame of a criminal’s ex*****on. His lifeless body was quickly prepared for burial and placed in a tomb, the entrance of which was sealed with a massive stone. The sun set. Another full day of despair and disillusionment came and went.
But early on the first day of the week, the earth quaked, the stone was rolled away, and the tomb was vacated by the living Christ. The Son of God gained victory over sin, death, and the grave. Satan, the strong man, had been bound, and his house was being plundered. To the risen Lord were granted the keys of death and Hades. The defeat of the kingdom of darkness had been guaranteed.
This was our spiritual D-Day! However, we are still awaiting and anticipating the arrival of V-Day when “the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord,” (I Thessalonians 4:16-17).
Then will come the fulfillment of the statement “death is swallowed up in victory,” (I Corinthians 15:54). Death, the last enemy, will be vanquished, abolished, and put in subjection under the feet of Christ (I Corinthians 15:25-26).
The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ assured the ultimate outcome of the spiritual warfare in which we are engaged as children of God. Yet, we still live in the interim between D-Day and V-Day. Thus, at present, we continue to deal with the emotional pain and sense of loss that are brought about by the death of those we love. We continue to struggle with illness and disease, face temptation, and endure the tribulations of life. These things remain UNTIL the redemption of our earthly bodies.
The apostle John was granted a vision of the glorified Savior, and he was given a glimpse of our final victory in Jesus. He penned a record of those visions in the book of Revelation, written to Christians who, like ourselves, lived and struggled in between the decisive battle and final consummation. We, like they, are called to live in faithfulness and with the blessed hope and assurance that one day, one glorious day, our strivings will forever cease and we will receive a crown of life.

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