First Christian Church Cameron, MO, 318 N Pine Street, Cameron, MO (2026)

06/02/2026

There is none so blind as those who don’t want to see. This old saying refers to a willful blindness that keeps us from seeing facts that contradict our opinions. Once we are entrenched in our beliefs and opinions, we often reject any new facts that require us to humble our pride and admit that we are wrong.

Admitting that we are wrong causes us to rethink what we believe and change the way we behave. All change is hard, especially changing the way that we see ourselves. For many, it is easier to deny the truth than to change the way that they think and behave.

We see this illustrated in the lives of some Pharisees. John 9:39 Then Jesus told him, “I entered this world to render judgment—to give sight to the blind and to show those who think they see that they are blind.” 40 Some Pharisees who were standing nearby heard him and asked, “Are you saying we’re blind?” 41 “If you were blind, you wouldn’t be guilty,” Jesus replied. “But you remain guilty because you claim you can see.

Jesus was teaching the man who was born blind that He is the light of the world who came so people could see God’s truth. The light of Christ allows us to see and evaluate our words and actions by using the Scriptures as our standard or example.

When the Pharisees encountered the light of Christ, they turned a blind eye to the truth of God’s Word and denied or justified their actions by interpreting and applying the Scriptures in ways that supported their opinions.

The Pharisees overheard Jesus say that he came to give sight to the spiritually blind (those uneducated in the Scripture) and to show those who think they can see (those educated in the Scriptures) that they are blind toward God. The Pharisees may have felt convicted because they asked Jesus if He was saying they were blind.

Jesus didn’t say He was talking about them. Rather, He pointed out that if the men were uneducated in the Scriptures, they wouldn’t be guilty. But since they knew the truth of God’s Word and continued to sin by justifying their actions with their interpretation of the Commandments, they remained guilty of sin and separated from God.

Before we judge these Pharisees, we must ask ourselves, “Do we know the truth of God’s Word and continue to sin in the same ways we did before we accepted Christ our Savior?” If so, now is the time to repent and turn away from what we know offends God and show Christ we love Him by our actions.

Have A Blessed Day!

06/01/2026

When Jesus and His disciples encountered a man who was born blind, the disciples asked Jesus if his blindness was a result of his sin or his parents' sin. At that time, it was believed that sin was the cause of all physical conditions.

Jesus corrected the disciples' belief about physical conditions being caused by spiritual sin when He said in John 9:3, “It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be seen in him.

In this case, the power of God was made known when Jesus gave the man his sight. As a result of this miracle, which took place on the Sabbath, the people’s opinions about Jesus were divided.

John 9:16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man Jesus is not from God, for he is working on the Sabbath.” Others said, “But how could an ordinary sinner do such miraculous signs?” So there was a deep division of opinion among them.

17 Then the Pharisees again questioned the man who had been blind and demanded, “What’s your opinion about this man who healed you?”

The man replied, “I think he must be a prophet.”

18 The Jewish leaders still refused to believe the man had been blind and could now see, so they called in his parents. 19 They asked them, “Is this your son? Was he born blind? If so, how can he now see?”

20 His parents replied, “We know this is our son and that he was born blind, 21 but we don’t know how he can see or who healed him. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”

The Pharisees called the man back for the second time and told him, “God should get the glory for this, because we know this man Jesus is a sinner.” The man responded John 9:25 “I don’t know whether he is a sinner,” the man replied. “But I know this: I was blind, and now I can see!”

The only evidence we have of God’s work in this world is the change in our lives! Like the man born blind, it is up to us to tell others how God has changed our lives.

The world has divided opinions about Jesus. It is what we believe about Jesus that leads us to the gift of Salvation and eternal life. Let’s be prepared to share with others what Christ has done for us and leave the rest to God.

Have A Blessed Day!

05/31/2026

Welcome to Worship
~ May 31, 2026

05/29/2026

Every moment of every day is a God-given opportunity to learn! What will we learn today? The answer to this question will be answered by where we focus our time, effort, and attention.

If we invest in learning and practicing a sport, we will learn something and increase our skill in that sport. When we give everything we have to the practice of our vocation or a hobby, it stands to reason that as we gain experience, we grow in knowledge and wisdom to perform these activities.

God has given us the free will to choose the subject we will study and the skills we can put into practice today. The question is will we choose to study God’s Word and put our faith in practice?

When we learn and remain faithful to Jesus' teaching, we will know the truth, and the truth will set us free. Jesus says it this way in John 8:31 Jesus said to the people who believed in him, “You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. 32 And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Spiritual growth doesn’t just happen! If we want to learn God’s will, we must put into practice Paul’s words from Romans 12:1 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. 2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

3 Because of the privilege and authority God has given me, I give each of you this warning: Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us.

A disciple is a lifelong learner! As Christ’s disciples, we have been given this day to give ourselves to God and let Him transform the way we think so that we will imitate the example of Jesus and learn God’s will for our lives, which is God, and pleasing, and perfect.

Let’s be honest in our evaluation of spiritual life with Christ based on the faith that God has given us. No matter where we are in our spiritual life, there is always room to grow. The question is, will we choose to pray and study God’s Word? Trusting God to renew our thinking and give us the courage and comfort to keep putting into practice what we have learned.

Are you thinking to yourself, “This sounds good, but you don’t know where to start?” You can start with Philippians 4:6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

8 And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. 9 Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.

Have a blessed day practicing your faith!

05/28/2026

There is no way to escape the fact that if we point a finger of blame or criticism at someone, three fingers are pointing back at us. This truth is illustrated in the Biblical account of the Pharisees bringing a woman accused of adultery to Jesus.

The Pharisees knew that the law of Moses condemned the woman to death by stoning. They wanted to test Jesus to see if He would judge the woman and execute judgment or show mercy and invalidate the law.

Rather than give a verbal answer, Jesus bent down and wrote in the dirt. Jesus knew that Pharisees were testing Him to see if He would uphold the law. They thought that they had Jesus in a lose-lose situation. If He said stone her, He was making Himself judge, and if He didn’t punish her, He had no regard for the law. The Pharisees didn’t consider that Jesus had a third option that they had never considered.

We read Jesus’s third option in John 8:7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” 8 Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.

In essence, Jesus was declaring that the punishment demanded by the law should be served by the people who were without sin. John 8:9 When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. 10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?” 11 “No, Lord,” she said. And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”

The men who were demanding the women’s death were brought face-to-face with their own sin. Each accuser, pointing their finger at woman suddenly saw the other three fingers pointing back at themselves.

When the woman confirmed that no one was left to condemn her. Jesus assured her that He didn’t condemn her and He sent her away to sin no more.

When we confess our sins to God through faith in Christ we are forgiven. Jesus then tells to go back to living our life without the condemnation of guilt and shame and to apply the lessons we have learned so that we don’t sin again.

When we judge or condemn others and point an accusing finger at them, we are pointing three fingers back at our own sin. Remembering our own sin and asking God for forgiveness will keep us so busy today that we won’t have time to look for sin in the lives of others. Let’s keep our hearts right with God and then share His love, peace, and forgiveness with everyone He allows to cross our path today.

Have A Blessed Day!

05/27/2026

If what Jesus the Christ has done in our life doesn’t convince us that He is God’s Son foretold in the Scriptures who died on the cross for our sins and was resurrected to eternal life, what will it take to convince us to believe in Him?

This is the question many among the crowds at the Temple were asking in John 7:31 Many among the crowds at the Temple believed in him. “After all,” they said, “would you expect the Messiah to do more miraculous signs than this man has done?”

The miraculous signs that God performed through Jesus were all the proof that many in the crowd needed to believe that Jesus is the one sent by God to save us from our sins. The crowd's belief in Jesus was a threat to the religious authorities, and John 7: 32 When the Pharisees heard that the crowds were whispering such things, they and the leading priests sent Temple guards to arrest Jesus.

Jesus didn’t hide from the Temple guards, nor did he try to convince the leading priest that He was the Messiah. John 7:33 But Jesus told them, “I will be with you only a little longer. Then I will return to the one who sent me. 34 You will search for me but not find me. And you cannot go where I am going.”

Jesus was in essence telling the Pharisees and the leading priests that in a little while, they would have Him killed on the cross. Jesus assured them that after His death, He would return to God and they would not be able to find Him or go with Him.

John 7:35 The Jewish leaders were puzzled by this statement. “Where is he planning to go?” they asked. “Is he thinking of leaving the country and going to the Jews in other lands? Maybe he will even teach the Greeks! 36 What does he mean when he says, ‘You will search for me but not find me,’ and ‘You cannot go where I am going’?”

The leaders couldn’t imagine that Jesus would be killed, resurrected from death, and then ascend to heaven to be with God, the one who sent Him. We have a difficult time understanding this and we have the Bible and the Holy Spirit to help us.

The Jewish leader’s actions fulfilled all the prophecies about Jesus, and they were not aware that they were part of God’s plan to bring Salvation to all who would believe in Jesus.

Like the Pharisees and Jewish leaders, our words and actions fulfill God’s will for our lives, and we are not even aware of all that God is doing through us on our behalf.

Solomon says it this way in Ecclesiastes 3:9 What do people really get for all their hard work? 10 I have seen the burden God has placed on us all. 11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. 12 So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can. 13 And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God.

14 And I know that whatever God does is final. Nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God’s purpose is that people should fear him.

God has a plan for our lives. We don’t know the full scope of work from beginning to end. We can trust that God will make all things beautiful for its time. When we love and respect (fear) God, we don’t have to worry about the future because we know that God is with us and He wants us to enjoy the daily blessings, such as food and drink that He entrusts us.

When we are discouraged or don’t understand what is happening in our lives, we can trust that God is with us and He has a plan for our lives. As long as we have faith in God through Christ, we have all we need to experience peace in our souls.

Have A Blessed Day!

05/26/2026

Familiarity breeds contempt! This old saying speaks the great truth that the more we know about someone, the less we respect or admire them. This might explain why many of the people who heard Jesus' public teaching didn’t believe He is the Messiah.

We read this in John 7:25 Some of the people who lived in Jerusalem started to ask each other, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? 26 But here he is, speaking in public, and they say nothing to him. Could our leaders possibly believe that he is the Messiah? 27 But how could he be? For we know where this man comes from. When the Messiah comes, he will simply appear; no one will know where he comes from.”

Some people may have known the prophecy from Isaiah 53:2 My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground.

There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.

While others knew of the prophecy of the Messiah’s birth from Micah 5:2 But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village among all the people of Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel, whose origins are in the distant past, will come from you on my behalf.

The people wondered how Jesus could be the Messiah when Mary and Joseph were from Nazareth and they had known Him for years. Being so familiar with Jesus blinded them to the fact that Jesus was born in Bethlehem and that when He was baptized by John in the Jordan River that the Holy Spirit descended on Him like a dove and the voice of God was heard saying, “This is my Beloved Son in whom I well pleased.”

Just as the people’s familiarity with Jesus kept them from understanding that He is the Messiah. We can become so familiar with people that all we see is their faults. If all we look for is someone’s faults and weaknesses, we will never see them for the person God made them to be and will never see or acknowledge the spiritual growth in their lives.

For example, as parents, we may be shocked when a stranger tells us how well-behaved and polite our children are when all we see in them is disrespect. It is not that our children are always disrespectful; we are just so familiar with their less-than-stellar behaviors that we don’t take time to see and reward them for the good things that they do. In the same way the children are so familiar with a parent’s criticism that they don’t try to change. Yet when a stranger is around, they are on their best behavior, and others see in them what parents either can’t or don’t want to see in them.

Let’s not let our familiarity with people or situations breed contempt. When we are tempted to criticize, judge, or lash out at someone; let’s take a deep breath and ask God to allow us to see them as He sees them. A person made in God’s image that is broken by sin and in need of love, mercy, grace, and forgiveness.

A deep breath and a moment of reflection before our normal reaction could save us from saying or doing things we soon regret. It is better to prevent regrets than live with them.

Have A Blessed Day!

05/25/2026

We have heard the expression, “It is not what you know but who you know.” This is especially true in receiving the gift of salvation and experiencing peace in our hearts.

We see this truth in John 7:14 Then, midway through the festival, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach. 15 The people were surprised when they heard him. “How does he know so much when he hasn’t been trained?” they asked. 16 So Jesus told them, “My message is not my own; it comes from God who sent me.

The people didn’t know how Jesus received such wisdom when He was not trained in a religious school. Jesus did not refute that He didn’t have a degree from a human school. Rather, Jesus gave God the credit for His message. Jesus was an obedient God, and God gave him wisdom and knowledge that is beyond human understanding.

It is not the depth or breadth of our religious knowledge that saves us. We are saved from our sins through our personal relationship with God through faith in Jesus the Christ. Jesus promises that when we believe in Him, He will never leave us and He will send the Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth.

Jesus says it this way in John 14:15 “If you love me, obey my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. 17 He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you. 18 No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you. 19 Soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Since I live, you also will live. 20 When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them.”

Let’s share what we know and understand about Jesus to introduce others to Him. Knowledge will not save our souls; knowing Christ will!

Let’s spend time in God’s Word and prayer and get to know Christ better today!

Have A Blessed Day!

05/24/2026

Welcome to Worship
~ May 24, 2026

05/24/2026

We have been flocked by one of our friends and neighbors from the Methodist church.

This is a fundraiser for their youth group. There will be a basket in the narthex if you would like to contribute to the Youth Group at the Methodist Church.

Please be thinking about which friend we would like to share this beautiful flock of flamingos with.

Have A Blessed Day

Russ

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