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YOGA MS/HS Youth Group - Wednesday's 5:45-7:00
Wednesday Night Bible Study - 2nd & 4th Wednesday's @ 7:00pm
Community Munch & Mingle - 3rd Wednesday @ 6:30pm

Sunday Services
10:00 - Bible Study
11:00 - Worship Service & Children's Worship & Wonder

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https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=24216c39-ba4e-4d5a-9655-983f3900a412 Sunday School - Sunday's @ 10:00am
Praise & Worship - Sunday's @ 11:00am
WASP (Wednesday After School Program) - Wednesday's 3:30-4:30
All elementary students are invited to join us.

09/04/2026

Our Daily Bread Ministries

September 4 | Bible in a Year: Psalms 143-145; 1 Corinthians 14:21-40
Junk Files

Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. Hebrews 12:1
READ Hebrews 12:1-7, 10, 14
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My smartphone occasionally reminds me I’m not good at digital housekeeping. “Junk files are taking up space,” the message reads. “Delete 675MB of junk files.” Now, I dislike being nagged by my phone. But if I clean out those files, I’ve got more space for things that really matter. Then, when I’m at my daughter’s swim meet, for instance, I’ll have enough digital storage to actually shoot a video of her winning a race instead of unexpectedly realizing that those pesky “junk files” have sabotaged my ability to capture the moment.
Junk files on our phones are easy to delete. But what about the “junk files” in our souls? Like our phones, our souls can be clogged with stuff that keeps us from flourishing spiritually. The author of Hebrews understood this reality, encouraging us to pay close attention to anything that trips us up in our walk with God. “Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles,” he writes, followed by this challenge: “And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us” (Hebrews 12:1).
What weighs you down? What trips you up? Hebrews encourages us to fix “our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith” (v. 2), who alone can help us identify and delete the “junk files” that hinder our abundant life in Him.
By Adam R. Holz
REFLECT & PRAY
What most trips you up in your relationship with God? How does your faith help you identify and throw off sinful influences?
Dear Father, please give me the wisdom and courage to “throw off . . . the sin that so easily entangles” me.

09/03/2026

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September 3 | Bible in a Year: Psalms 140-142; 1 Corinthians 14:1-20
Reverent Fear of God

Fear the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 10:12
READ Deuteronomy 10:12-15

“I killed people in the past,” Tanitan said, “but ever since I chose to believe in Jesus Christ, He will not allow me to commit such practices anymore.” Tanitan, a member of the Ilongot tribe from the Sierra Madre mountains in the Philippines, came from a culture of head-hunting—the practice of hunting humans and severing their heads. In comparing his life before he knew God to his life now, Tanitan said, “Before, I was afraid to die but not afraid to kill. Now, I am afraid to kill but not afraid to die.”
As I read Tanitan’s story in the book To the Headhunters of Sierra Madre by Florentino Santos, I thought of how his newfound fear of or reverence toward God developed his desire to obey Him. I remembered Moses’ words to the Israelites before they entered the land God promised them: “What does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God” (Deuteronomy 10:2). Reverence toward God was to be reflected in obedience to Him. God’s people were to “walk in obedience to Him, to love Him . . . and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees” (vv. 12-13).
As believers in Jesus, our deep respect for God’s holiness compels us to hate evil and do what pleases Him (Proverbs 8:13). Let’s ask Him to help us make reverence toward God a way of life.
By Karen Huang
REFLECT & PRAY
From today’s Scripture, how would you describe the “fear [of] the Lord”? Where do you find obeying God difficult, and how can the command to fear Him help you?
Holy God, please help me to experience reverent fear in Your presence.

09/02/2026

See you at Bible Study at 7 pm

09/02/2026

Our Daily Bread Ministries

September 2 | Bible in a Year: Psalms 137-139; 1 Corinthians 13
The Ultimate Snapshot

Therefore we do not lose heart. 2 Corinthians 4:16
READ 2 Corinthians 4:7-18

Before our trip to Switzerland, my mental snapshot was of snowy Alps, goats grazing, and mountain farmers blowing alpine horns. However, as we drove south from Zurich, the landscape was the same drab tangle of highways we saw in any city. When we got close to our lodging, we had to drive up a precarious one-lane dirt road. At our rental place, we hauled our suitcases up steep stone stairways. Exhausted and disappointed, we finally made our way onto the patio. And there, opening up before us, stretched an extraordinary vista: the Alps rising up majestically over the blue expanse of Lake Lucerne, with small towns glittering like fireflies below us. The ordeal was worth it.
I recalled the verse, “Therefore we do not lose heart” (2 Corinthians 4:16). The apostle Paul writes of his own struggles: “We are hard pressed on every side, but . . . not in despair” (v. 😎. He reveals his positive outlook: “Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all” (v. 17). He advises us to “fix our eyes . . . on what is unseen” (v. 18), to hope for that eternal landscape.
Sometimes our journey is drab and difficult. But in Christ, we’re assured that we’ll witness the ultimate snapshot. The ordeal will be worth it: His eternal glory far surpasses anything we can imagine.
By Kenneth Petersen
REFLECT & PRAY
What are the difficult roads in your life these days? What does “eternal glory” mean to you?
Loving God, I need encouragement through this tough journey. I pray for assurance of Your eternal glory.�For further study, read Paul’s Pain and His Passion: 2 Corinthians 5 at odbm.org.

09/01/2026

Our Daily Bread Ministry

September 1 | Bible in a Year: Psalms 135-136; 1 Corinthians 12
Gathering to Grow in Christ

[The believers] devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Acts 2:42
READ Acts 2:1-6, 36-37

In Monterey Bay, California, a boat captain saw fifteen Pacific white-sided dolphins join a super pod of more than two thousand dolphins. Various types and ages of dolphins gather in pods to fend off predators, feed, and socialize. Still, the size and diversity of this super pod was a rare sight to behold.
The Bible records a rare gathering of diverse people that’s foundational in our faith history. As the disciples celebrated Pentecost in Jerusalem, “a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting” (Acts 2:2). They were “filled with the Holy Spirit,” who enabled them to speak in different languages (v. 4). People God created “from every nation under heaven” had also gathered for Pentecost (v. 5). When they investigated the loud noise, each person “heard their own language being spoken” by the disciples (v. 6). Then Peter proclaimed Jesus as “both Lord and Messiah” (v. 36). About three thousand believed and were baptized (v. 41). As God’s people lived in community like never before, He “added to their number daily those who were being saved” (v. 47).
By the power of the Holy Spirit, God’s people around the world still gather to grow in community and proclaim Jesus as Lord. Through us, He will continue expanding His kingdom.
By Xochitl Dixon
REFLECT & PRAY
How are you gathering to grow with God’s diverse people? How has He used people who are different from you to grow your faith and His church?
Dear God, please grow Your church as I gather to grow with others.

08/31/2026

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August 31 | Bible in a Year: Psalms 132-134; 1 Corinthians 11:17-34
Christ in Me

I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. Galatians 2:20
READ Galatians 2:19-21
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Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer became famous for his talent at age twenty. The art critics of his day called him “the greatest mind that ever expressed itself in line.” As his fame spread, influential people tried to hire him with promises of luxury and ease. Even other acclaimed artists such as Giovanni Bellini and Raphael revered his work.
In what experts consider to be his best self-portrait, Dürer mingled his physical characteristics with what he thought Jesus might have looked like. He painted himself with long, wavy hair, a beard, and eyes that seemed to convey a sense of divine purpose. While many assumed this was the artist’s prideful opinion of himself, others who knew him believed Dürer wanted to live a life that would allow people to see Jesus in him.
If we truly know Christ, this is our desire as well. Believing in Him and accepting His death and resurrection as the basis for our relationship with God means we should now live for Jesus—not for ourselves (Galatians 2:19). We live for Him, and He lives in us and works through us. The apostle Paul said this about his spiritual transformation: “I no longer live, but Christ lives in me” (v. 20). May the glory of Christ shine through our lives today so that the world sees Him in us.
By Jennifer Benson Schuldt
REFLECT & PRAY
How do you feel when you sense Jesus working through you to make Himself known? What challenges prevent this from happening at times?
Father in heaven, please help me to stop living to satisfy my desires. Help me to surrender to Your Spirit so others will see Christ in me.

08/28/2026

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August 28 | Bible in a Year: Psalms 123-125; 1 Corinthians 10:1-18
The Courage God Gives

Shammah took his stand. 2 Samuel 23:12 2 Samuel 23:11-12
READ 2 Samuel 23:11-12

The CEO was hurting employees with his sharp tongue. No one dared confront him. Everyone was afraid of him, including Gene. But one day the CEO berated a new employee, reducing her to tears. When Gene saw how everyone in the room stayed silent, he spoke up.
“I told him the way he was treating people was wrong,” Gene recalls. “He was astonished; it was the first time someone stood up to him. He didn’t change, but I’m glad I spoke up.”
Scripture tells us of another man who stood up to a challenge many were afraid of. Shammah, a military warrior of David, came to the future king from difficult circumstances (see 2 Samuel 23:11-12), but God used him to defeat the Philistines. “When the Philistines banded together at . . . a field full of lentils, Israel’s troops fled from them” (v. 11). Only Shammah had the courage to defend Israel’s food supply. Being the lone man against the Philistine army meant death, but Shammah “took his stand in the middle of the field. He defended it” (v. 12).
God helped Shammah defeat the Philistines (v. 12). He may have been the only Israelite in the field, but he wasn’t alone—God was with him, giving him great victory that day. There may be times when we’re called to stand up to a challenge that everyone else is avoiding. Like Shammah, let’s take our stand, relying on God’s presence and help.
By Karen Huang
REFLECT & PRAY
What challenge is God calling you to stand up to? How can you rely on Him for help?
Dear Father, please give me the courage to take a stand for You.

08/27/2026

Our Daily Bread Ministries

August 27 | Bible in a Year: Psalms 120-122; 1 Corinthians 9
Where God Reigns

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7 James 4:1-10
READ James 4:1-10

In 2018, a man checked into a room at New York hotel for a one-night stay. Remarkably, he used the room for five years without paying another cent—exploiting obscure rent laws to hold on to it. His refusal to leave, however, eventually led to potential prison time for him.
Like an unwelcome tenant who overstays, James warns us that the devil lingers in our lives when left unchecked. “Resist the devil,” James writes, “and he will flee from you” (4:7). The apostle emphasizes that our struggles often come from impure “desires” and “wrong motives” (vv. 1, 3)—things like pride, divided loyalties, and impure thoughts residing in our hearts. To counter such temptation, James offers two commands: “submit . . . to God” and “resist the devil” (v. 7). To submit means surrendering every part of our lives to God. Resisting the devil is equally active, requiring prayer, vigilance, and the wisdom of Scripture.
Like a landlord evicting an unlawful tenant, in God’s strength we can refuse to let the temptation of the devil overtake us. As we resist him, God promises victory as James asserts, “He will flee from you” (v. 7).
When we evict sin and the devil’s influence and “come near to God” (v. 😎, we allow His peace, joy, and purpose to dwell more fully in us. The enemy can’t stay where God reigns!
By Marvin Williams
REFLECT & PRAY
What can you do to remove “unwelcome tenants” from your life? How does submitting to God help?
Sovereign God, please help me surrender every part of my life to You so I can stand firm against the enemy's schemes.

08/26/2026

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August 26 | Bible in a Year: Psalm 119:89-176; 1 Corinthians 8
Power of Consistent Prayer

Three times a day [Daniel] got down on his knees, and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before. Daniel 6:10 Daniel 6:3-7, 9-11
READ Daniel 6:3-7, 9-11

Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington encouraged a group of young actors to begin each day with prayer, suggesting they “put your shoes way under the bed at night” to ensure they “gotta get on your knees in the morning.”
Developing a regular habit of prayer might take some thoughtful and even creative planning, but it’s a practice that has sustained God’s people throughout history—especially in difficult times. We see this in the life of Daniel, who served in King Darius’ administration. He quickly distinguished himself as the top government advisor, which angered local officials (Daniel 6:3). Out of jealousy they plotted to oust the prophet, but quickly realized the only charge that would stick was related to Daniel’s devotion to the “the law of his God” (v. 5). Even after the officials tricked the king into making it illegal for Daniel to pray, Daniel still “got down on his knees, and prayed . . . just as he had done before” (v. 10).
A consistent prayer life was essential for Daniel to experience God’s sustaining strength and peace (Psalm 29:11). It helped him to triumph over the forces seeking to destroy him. In the same way, establishing a regular time to meet with God in prayer and making it a daily priority can help cultivate our relationship with Him. During each difficulty we face, it’s His strength that will sustain us.
By Lisa M. Samra
REFLECT & PRAY
How has a regular pattern of prayer sustained you in difficulty? What example of prayer in the Bible encourages you?
Loving Father, please give me Your strength and mercy each morning.

08/25/2026

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August 25 | Bible in a Year: Psalm 119:1-88; 1 Corinthians 7:20-40
God Sees All

I will keep my eye on them. Amos 9:4 Amos 9:2-4, 11-12, 14-15
READ Amos 9:2-4, 11-12, 14-15

Michael couldn’t help laughing as Grace hid behind a menu. They were playing a game of hide-and-seek at the table in a café while waiting for the food. The five-year-old thought that if she couldn’t see her father, then he couldn’t see her. It seemed silly at the time, but as Michael reflected on the situation later, he realized it contained an important lesson: Do we believe we can hide our sins from God? Do we think that if we can’t see Him, then He can’t see us?
In Amos 9, this same point is made when God, speaking through the prophet, warns Israel not to think they can escape judgment for their sins: “Though they hide themselves . . . I will hunt them down.” He said, “I will keep my eye on them” (vv. 3-4). Nothing escapes the eyes of the all-seeing, all-knowing God.
But the warning also came with a message of hope. In verses 11-15, God promises restoration: “I will restore David’s fallen shelter—I will repair its broken walls” (v. 11). After suffering the consequences of their sin, God’s people would be restored and given bountiful blessings (vv. 13-15).
Just as God sees our failings, He also sees our repentance, and He’s ready to forgive and restore. As we draw comfort from this truth, let’s hold on tightly to our holy and righteous God, who is full of mercy and grace.
By Leslie Koh
REFLECT & PRAY
What sins are you struggling with? How will you respond to God's readiness to restore?
All-knowing God, nothing I do, think, say, or feel is hidden from You. Thank You for Your mercy and grace, for my hope is in You alone.

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