Clarks Hill Christian Church

06/08/2026

Rain or Shine come to our Annual Cones and Coney Block Party! Loads of Three F's: Food, Fellowship, and Fun!!!

06/07/2026

04/06/2026

Good Evening and Happy Easter! I thank you for traveling with me this past Holy Week, it sure has been refreshing to write devotionals again! On this day, One Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety Three years ago, that first Easter Morning, the Disciples awakened to some disillusionment as Jesus had not yet made an appearance! Mary Magdalene shows up early, before Dawn, to find the stone rolled away. Mary is horrified that someone had removed her Savior's body. She frantically looks around, finds the Gardner nearby and asked, "Where have they taken Jesus?" The Gardner looked up with compassion saying, "Mary" her response was excitedly, "Rabboni" immediately knowing it was her Lord and Savior Jesus! He responds, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not ascended to my Father...Rather, go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God'".
Mary goes and does exactly as Jesus requested. At first, the Disciples show disillusionment as Jesus had not yet revealed Himself to them. Then with great amazement and excitement they go see for themselves. Peter and John took off for the empty tomb, John outrunning Peter, then waited for Peter to show up and go in first.
It had to be heartrending and heart healing to see Jesus' empty tomb and graveclothes collapsed with nothing there but emptiness. Kind of symbolic of how they had been just hours prior to the announcement by the women. Empty and hopeless, but hopeful all the same. Their hopelessness in an instant turned to Hope of the confirmation of all of what Christ had accomplished through His death, resurrection, and in 40 days His Ascension on High to sit at the Right Hand of God the Father of Heaven and Earth.
Yes, it is amazing what one man accomplished that no other human had ever done and ever will do.
What are you looking to accomplish, who are you striving for, will you today choose to accept and follow Christ Jesus as your Lord and Savior? I did, and I have never regretted following, serving, and telling others about His Amazing Grace, Love, and Mercy!
Thank you everyone for joining me on this Holy Week Journey that began in Triumphal Entrance and finished eight days later with Triumph over Sin, Death, and the Grave!
Keep Coming back, more to come, of the return of

04/04/2026

We pause as the Disciples must have paused. It had to be so disheartening to see what their Lord and Savior experienced from the night in the Garden of Gethsemane on Maundy Thursday, the trials that night, the pain of confirmation of Christ's words, "You will deny me three times, before the Rooster Crows twice" as Peter said, "I don't know that man." Then the sting of guilt, overburdening grief, and overwhelming tears of sorrow as what Peter's words fears of could he really stand the pressure when the pressure cooker was turned up to full tilt on him. This time, no, next time, and the next times after that he would stand strong, most likely reflecting on this solitary moment when his Lord and Savior needed him the most.
But wait, it all had to happen, the denial, the trials, whippings and scourgings, and the Crucifixion to come. This is why when Christ, with compassion in His eyes, looked across Caiaphas Home into Peter's eyes, Christ was filled with love and conviction. Still with quiet contemplation they think through the hours of Friday, Jesus rising in a cold cell, hearing the crowd call for His Crucifixion. What is even more incredible was the compassion he showed walking to the cross and greater compassion later as Christ looks upon the crowd. One of many phrases still echoing in their minds, "Father Forgive them for they know not what they do."
These words meant for the Crowds, Temple Leadership, and the Roman Soldiers. Thinking about these words, would the Disciples also be thinking about their abandonment from Thursday Night as Jesus was arrested, and all that followed through the night, into the morning. Then the walk to the cross, crucifixion, and finally being laid in a cold tomb. Maybe the Disciples and ourselves think...what have we done. Why did he have to die on the cross for our sins?
Again, it all had to happen. Jesus, a Sacrifice prepared before the foundations of the earth were laid. A plan agreed to, lived out, and honorably completed. So that we could all have an opportunity to accept Him as Lord and Savior, saving our very lives.
Today, be thoughtful of what Christ did, so that tomorrow we can celebrate and sing, He Lives, He's alive forevermore and Christ Reigns!

We Hope to see You All either in person or online at 9:30am for Easter Sunday Worship!

04/04/2026

It is Good Friday! It is hard to imagine what Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior did for all humanity. The responses to Christ's Crucifixion on the cross are interesting. John takes Mary, Jesus' mother into his home to care for her. The people jeer shouting, ""And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, 'You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If you are the son of God, come down from the cross.'"
One thief said, "You saved others, save Yourself." The other thief changes his jeers and mockery to a repenetent statement, "Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong."
Jesus' response to the repenetent thief, "Today You will be with me in paradise!"
The soldiers at the foot of the cross cast lots for Jesus' clothes. As Jesus takes his last breathes He says His final words, "It is Finished!" The curtain tears in the temple, the ground shakes, and unknown people rise from their graves and run through the streets of Jerusalem!
One of the Roman Soldiers turns says understandingly, "Surely, He was the Son of God."
Then to quicken the dying process the thieves legs are broken, when they came to Jesus they see he has already passed, to prove his death they thrust a spear into his side and blood and water flowed.
The final act of compassion, two religious leaders, Joseph of Arimetheia and Nicodemus, receive Jesus from the cross to bury in Joseph's tomb.
Now, what are your responses to the cross?

04/02/2026

It is Maundy Thursday! Let us reflect on the Journeys of Jesus. He gathered them in an Upper Room and had a very special meal with His disciples, affectionately entitled the Last Supper. A Passover Supper to remember for all time. He would spend the hours reclining at the table, teaching them the various aspects of the meal as it pointed towards the great Sacrifice He was going to make for all humanity! He then journeyed across the Kidron Valley, entering and walking into the inner recesses of the many gardens on the Mt. of Olives to the Garden of Gethsemane, thought to be a place He and His disciples often went on retreat by the kindness of the owner also thought to be Lazarus. There He would spent countless more hours praying, and then late into the night or early morning He would be betrayed by Judas Iscariot, with a Brother's Kiss on His cheek. A kiss, a common greeting, a typical kindness between to people, the kiss signaling to the Roman Guard that this is the Man you are to arrest. This kiss set off a chain reaction of events leading to a moment in time that we will further reflect on tomorrow. For now look over these passages and reread this Journey so that you can look deep into the heart of Your Savior's Love for YOU!

04/01/2026

Good Morning, trying to kickstart our day in the word and journey through Holy Week a bit earlier.
Here are some passages I am contemplating as I prepare for a day of reflection, service, and ministry!
Matthew 20:1-28, Luke 19:1-10, John 12:1-11.