Waterloo Church of the Nazarene, 457 W Waterloo Road, Edmond, OK (2026)

09/04/2026

From the Pastor

I hope you’re having a good day. We are one day closer to cooler temperatures. College football starts this weekend and that is aways a harbinger of cooler weather. YAY!

I’m getting ready to preach a series on the Gifts of the Spirit and the Spirit brought into clear view a truth that I have known but perhaps hadn’t understood as I should. Is conviction of sin the same as the fear of the Lord? When I act upon conviction that leads to confession and then repentance that is walking in the fear of the Lord. God gave me life, called me into being and has ordained my days. God knows when my life on this earth will end and He causes His Prevenient Grace to work on me getting me ready for the eternal life He has in store for me.

If I lack fear (reverence), if I’m dull and fail to be convicted or ignore His conviction altogether then my life, while on earth, will be miserable and my eternal life will be damned everlastingly. I must have an equal reality of understanding of God’s love and grace and my sin that separates and alienates. Upon realization of God’s love for me through Jesus Christ, I must also have the same degree of realization of my sin. God’s love is the one powerful force in the entire universe able to compel me to confess my sin and need of forgiveness and to repent leaving sin behind to pursue God and His way.

When Sin disrupts that trajectory, it is again God’s love and my fear of the Lord that course corrects. This divine activity is enforced by the Person of the Holy Spirit. I’m not on my own relying on my perception and feelings but have the exceedingly wonderful gift of the Holy Spirit who is constantly present that manifests God’s love and who magnifies sin and the allure of some sin. This is the grace of God constantly at work that leads to new spiritual birth.

It is grace indeed to feel God’s love and also to feel the awfulness of my sin. The two are sides of the same coin equally important in the Good News salvation of Jesus Christ. God could leave us all alone, dead in our trespasses, but He doesn’t. What a wonderful God! I hope this speaks to your heart on some level as it has mine.

I’m looking forward to worshiping with you this Sunday. Read 1 Cor. 12 particularly verses 7-12 about the gifts of the Spirit. We will also celebrate the Lord’s Supper together. May the Spirit equip and inspire you to keep fighting the good fight. See you Sunday!

Blessings!
Pastor M

08/26/2026

Waterloo Church of the Nazarene in Edmond, OK is in need of a part-time Worship Leader. If you know someone who loves the Lord, is a gifted musician/vocalist and would be excited to lead meaningful worship experiences, please let us know. Please share so we may cast a wider net! Private message Debbie Marshall Sanders or Monty Sanders.

08/26/2026

From the Pastor

Greetings church family. I have missed you and am looking forward to being with you very soon. Debbie and I had a wonderful time away together. We love traveling together, seeing new places and sometimes visiting places with which we are familiar. The thing that makes traveling so special for us is doing it together. That’s the best part!

We went through 6 states and two of them were for the first time, South Dakota and Nebraska. We spent a week in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, which was the first time for us to visit there. It is beautiful with many lakes and streams in every direction while being surrounded by mountains. We took lots of walks and rode bikes and packed lunches never really knowing where we would stop to eat. It’s not my intention to be mean, but while you were here having to endure 100+ temperatures we woke up every day to temperatures in the mid 40’s with highs in the mid 70’s. It was wonderful!

We actually went days without a TV and spent significant time away from our phones except to take pictures. We did communicate once in a while with our children and friends 😉. We saw bears every day sometimes multiple times a day. We saw mountain blue birds (completely blue) and Magpie’s (beautiful mountain bird), and Osprey and American bison. After Steamboat we then traveled to the Black Hills of South Dakota and saw Mount Rushmore. What an amazing monument of four Presidents that identify everything this country represents. It was very inspirational! The Black Hills are distinctively beautiful with huge granite mountains and prolific ponderosa pines with expansive verdant valley’s in between.

We met people from Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Long Island, NY. We became friends with the Long Islanders sharing time together around the pool, hot tub and BBQ areas. A bit of irony concerning out Long Island friends is that they stated they didn’t like to hang around churchy people. Debbie and I looked at one another and had to laugh. We kept waiting for that unfailing moment when the question got asked, “What do you do” but, interestingly enough, it never came. Looking back now I realize it should have been me that asked the question so they could have realized that they had in fact been socializing with people who belong to the Body of Christ. And they liked it!!

That was one of those moments when a spiritual conversation could have happened outside of the church. Even for a pastor, it is sometimes hard to have those kinds of discussions. Beginning in September, we will have the opportunity to learn more about having spiritual conversations and more readily reaching people for Christ’s sake. Be on the lookout for more information.

I can’t wait to worship with you on Sunday. Thank you for giving us the special time away together. Many, many blessings to you!

Pastor M

08/07/2026

From the Pastor

It is true that I have been listening to Christmas music for about a month now. It is nothing new for me. My heart is always filled with Christmas! 😊

Has it ever dawned on you when you’re singing a hymn how often we just sing the words without paying attention to what the words are saying? The other day when I was at a pretty low point in my bout with illness, I was listening to Christmas hymns and It Came Upon A Midnight Clear played. Suddenly the words seemed to break through my fog and pe*****te my heart. The song itself is about how the Lord comes to us during our times of strife and struggle.

Once those words touched me all the hairs on my body stood on end. I know what you’re thinking, “this was fever related.” NOPE! This was Spirit related! This was grace related! This was mercy related! Instantly I felt better. Praise the Lord! Consider these words:

“Yet with the woes of sin and strife The world has suffered long;
Beneath the angel-strain have rolled Two thousand years of wrong;
And man, at war with man, hears not The love-song which they bring; O hush the noise, ye men of strife, And hear the angels sing.”

This says that God comes to us while we sin and stir up strife with each other. God comes to us even after 2000 years’ worth of wronging each other. God still comes to us even as we war with one another. God sends His angels to sing their song of “peace on earth” and to testify, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. A Savior is born!” (Luke 2:10). God is so good to us. He has come to you and to me when we need Him most. Be encouraged this day. I pray you feel better; I pray you feel peace; I pray you feel strength rising; I pray you are encouraged and that you hear the angels sing to you!

This Sunday I will share with you about the miracle of the Bible. It tells us that God (divine) has come to be with us (mortal). Any time a divine supernatural, holy God breaks into this natural, mortal world to interact with us it is miraculous! I will share from 1 Peter 1:3-5 exclaiming that we have been given a “living hope”! I sure hope to see your faces on Sunday.

Grace and Peace to you!
Pastor M

07/30/2026

From the Pastor

The other day I came across a story from Scripture that I haven’t thought about in some time. It is one of those miraculous stories where God acts on behalf of His people as they live for Him. It keeps coming back to my mind over and over. This story also reveals how God insists on the glory of His name. I will come back to this in a moment.

Other cool stories from the Bible where God’s glory is magnified as He provides for His people as they live for Him: God delivered 2-3 million people to pass through the Red Sea on dry ground safely; Rahab helped Hebrew spies in Jericho and is spared along with her family during the chaos of conquests because a scarlet ribbon hung in the window. There’s the widow whose husband dies. She has no way of paying his debt so authorities are going to take her two children as slaves for payment. She turns to Elisha the prophet, who asks her what she has in her home. She replies, “Only a small jar of oil.” He instructs her to borrow empty jars from her neighbors and to fill them from her jar of oil. Miraculously the oil flows until all the jars are filled and then she sells the oil to pay off her debts so she keeps her children. In the NT there’s the miraculous catch of fish—twice; and what about that scene where a hosts of heavenly angels show up singing and worshiping with shepherds in the middle of a field at the birth of Christ.

There are some really cool stories in Scripture of God doing amazing things for His people. Back to the story I mentioned above found in 2 Kings 19. The king of Judah, Hezekiah, who did right in the eyes of God was faced with a huge dilemma. King Sennacherib of Assyria had surrounded Jerusalem with 185,000 soldiers and was about to annihilate all of Judah if Hezekiah didn’t surrender. The Assyrian king mocked the God of Israel by saying things like, “Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria. Did the gods of the other nations that we destroyed get delivered from their gods? The same thing will happen to you.” Hezekiah prays to God and receives this answer, “I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.” That night an angel of the Lord went out and put to death all 185,000 soldiers in an instant.

There are a couple of things that stick out to me about this story. Hezekiah sought the Lord in all things, good and bad, not just for himself but for the people he governed. God answered him and blessed his kingship and his kingdom. The same is true of us when God is first in our lives. “Seek the Lord while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near” (Isaiah 55:6). The other thing that sticks out is that God destroyed a huge number of people in a blink of an eye. What precipitated this was the mocking and blasphemy of God. This happens all the time in our society and throughout the world. People are in serious jeopardy.

The truth is that “God does not want anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance”
(2 Peter 3:9). There are those who are flippant about God and those who are indifferent and if it were not for Christ, it may likely be that many more would be put to death just like the ones from our story above. You and I are called to take the gospel to the least, last, and the lost. Let us pray that the Spirit will give us a heart for the lost so that many sons and daughters may be brought to glory rather than perish eternally.

This Sunday I will share with you again from Galatians 5:22-26 about the Fruit of the Spirit of faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Read and pray over this text for the Spirit to give us special revelation and discernment from its teachings. We will also celebrate Holy Communion.

Come with eager expectation for encounter with Jesus! See you Sunday.

Pastor M

*Exodus 14; Joshua 2; 2 Kings 4; Luke 5; John 21; Luke 2

07/24/2026

From the Pastor

Happy Friday church! PRAISE GOD for this rain. Amen!! The cloud cover and gentle rain is a gift from God coming right in the middle of this heat wave we have been experiencing. I can’t help but think of that verse of Scripture where God says that He will hear from heaven and heal our land when we call on Him and turn our faces again and again to Him. Thank you Lord! Church, keep calling and turning to our God!

I got home from visiting my parents last evening. It was good to see my parents and sister. Mama is doing good, daddy is doing fair and my sister is caring for their daughter who’s about to enter college in the fall, caring for our parents and is trying to care for herself and husband. My sister has a bulging disc in her neck causing significant pain. Pray for the Lord’s help in these matters.

Nearly all of us have prayer concerns and some of us have significant things going on. Thank you for praying for each other and for Christ’s church. When trials come they can handicap the work of the kingdom as God’s people strive to care for themselves and loved ones. May we remember what Christ said to the apostle Paul when he was praying for God to remove his trial, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor. 12:9). Paul goes on to testify that when God’s people encounter trials, it is then that the power of Christ rests upon us. May the power of Christ, not only enable your answers to prayer, but most importantly may His power and presence be made perfect in and through our trials to the glory of God!

On Sunday, we have the privilege and blessing of having Dr. Mark Bane as a guest speaker. Mark is a sought after speaker and leader in the Church of the Nazarene as Director of Evangelism and New Church Development for the USA/Canada region. Mark also consults with congregations all over the region on church health and discipleship. Mark’s mission is to “win as many people to Jesus as possible, then die, and join them for eternity!” I hope and pray that you will make it a priority to come and listen to what God has laid on his heart to share.

Blessings upon blessings to each one of you!

Pastor M

07/16/2026

Good morning! My sincerest greetings to you for this new day. I pray this is true for you, “In your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore” (Psalm 16:11).

I don’t have a political bone in my body but I have a perspective that I want to share with you about the state of our country. If you listen to the news very much, it would appear that our country is in peril socially, politically and economically. I know the media blows things out of proportion but to a degree they are right. Some, too many, are now considering themselves as socialist. I could try to articulate why this is but it would give me a headache. In truth, Socialism has its grounding in Marxism. The following is a portion of the Marxist manifesto, “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the o***m of the people.” How sad!!

Karl Marx explicitly rejected belief in a divine being. “Marxist ideology is rooted in atheism and materialism, viewing God, religion, and the supernatural as human inventions that hinder human emancipation” The characteristic that stands out is that these people are anti-God, anti-Christ and anti-church. Many have gone on the record exclaiming their hatred of God and disapproving of any form of godliness, morals and fundamental goodness.

As we have occasion to hear some of the socialist rhetoric and witness the fanning of the flame from their rhetoric, we see a free for all form of violence, disobedience to law, chaos, rioting and disregard for any form of order. The political choice is at its core, a choice away from and against God. How is the follower of Christ supposed to deal with such upheaval and soul unrest? Make no mistake about it, this is a spiritual matter through and through.

The father of all lies, the Devil, is very good at convoluting human thought and reason when so many make a conscious choice to do life apart from God. These poor souls who are pursuing socialism/Marxism believe up is down and down is up. So many people don’t realize the downward spiral they are in and are promoting. To them heaven is hell and hell is heaven.

Dwight L. Moody, in his time, had to confront this degree of unbelief. He said, “Some skeptics say there is no vital energy in the world other than physical energy. Contrary to their assertions, tens of thousands who cannot possibly by deceived have become new creatures by a power neither physical nor psychological. They’ve become recipients in the Holy Spirit’s transforming power.” PRAISE GOD!

How is the church today to deal with and confront similar unbelief and the lie from the enemy that “man is the highest being for man—humanity creates its own reality through material conditions, not divine will” (Karl Marx)? In the power of the Holy Spirit, that’s how! There is a dark spiritual force behind this movement and there must be a glorious Holy Spirit force to overcome it. Faithful prayer and consequently faithful obedience animated by the Holy Spirit is what has always been God’s will and plan to face head-on this battle for souls. “I (we) can do all things through Him who give me strength” (Philippians 4:13)! Amen and Amen!

This Sunday we will again look at the Fruit of the Spirit that contrasts acts of the flesh. We will look at Galatians 5:22 (Patience, Kindness, and Goodness). I am looking forward to worshiping with you. See you Sunday.

In Christ’s love
Pastor M

07/10/2026

From the Pastor

Good Friday afternoon Waterloonaz family. I hope you’re staying warm in these blustery conditions. Well… something like that. Stay cool 😊.

I want to remind you that tomorrow is Becky Cahill’s Memorial service. I hope you are able to attend this blessed service. It will be a celebration of life and of love and the Lord both of which were certainly strong in this woman’s life. I hope memories of her flood your minds. She surely touched our lives in wonderful ways. So many memories that we have of her are of her and John together. We are so grateful for them both and their family.

I hope you will join us on Sunday as we welcome missionaries Dave and Kim Hane. It is always a treat to hear from a missionary of how God has and is doing wonderous things around the world. We are in for a treat.

Recently, I read something about the deadly wildfires that happen on the prairie in the plains. The article started out describing how this deadly event begins when there hasn’t been any rainfall. The absence of water is what leads to this destruction. It got me to thinking…

Water is so essential and good for us. Simply put, it is life and without it we will surely die. Of all that composes our human bodies water is the majority. Adults are composed of about 60% water and with babies it’s even more, around 75%.

Water doesn’t seek after us or call out our names or have a will and design to arrests our attention. Water doesn’t love us yet; water means life for us! The Gospel’s say that Jesus is the Living Water for our whole lives—body and soul. This Water does come after us; this Water does call out our names. And this Water has come from heaven with the express purpose of arresting our attention, to refresh our lives, and to quench our spiritual thirst that manifest into every natural sinful pursuit on our part to quench our own thirst.

This Water loves us more than we have the capacity to know or ever imagine. Our lives, naturally and spiritually, are to be composed by 100% of this Water and unless it does we are always in a form of dehydrated failure and thirst. Oh Lord, open our eyes to see this! Stir our hearts to know this and like the woman at the well, may we say, “Sir, please give me this Water! Amen!!

Love and blessings to you!
Pastor M

07/02/2026

From the Pastor

As we approach the 4th of July, there seems to be a heightened degree of patriotism. There seems to be an American flag everywhere. The colors of red, white and blue adorn many yards, store fronts, and even television commercials. If you look at Facebook or Instagram about every third item in the feed is about our nation’s 250 birthday. I, for one, believe it rightly so that we should be over the top in promoting our country with its colors, its flag, its songs, and fireworks for we have the wonderful privilege and blessing of living in the greatest country on earth. As Christians, we must not forget where this wonderful blessing originates. It’s really easy to take the gift of living in this nation for granted, and if we are not careful, live believing we are entitled to such a great place to call home.

The truth is that during these past 250 years there have been times when it has been difficult, to say the least, to be a nation, not to mention a united one. We have had to fight much of this time for our identity as a nation that is free with liberty and justice for all. Some fights have been militarily on our own soil multiple times and across the ocean more times than I care to count. Other forms of fighting for the freedoms that we all enjoy have occurred culturally, politically and especially spiritually and they are ongoing. What’s the old saying, “Anything worth having is worth fighting for!” Americans have had to find this out literally on a daily basis in one form or another for all these 250 years.

The spiritual component of this fight is what fuels ALL other battles for our freedom and it is the spiritual part that gets overlooked and misunderstood. The Bible teaches us in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians that our “fighting is not against flesh and blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world” (6:12 NLT). In truth, the hope of this nation is on the strength of the Church’s willingness to go to battle with the weapons of prayer, God’s Word, the word of our testimony, in the strength, might and power of the Holy Spirit. May we, as Christians, remember this especially this 250th birthday of these United States of America.

Most of the time during the American Revolution, it looked like the dream and experiment of actually becoming a democratic, independent nation was not going to happen. And even after the war ended and England surrendered to us it looked bleak to get all 13 colonies to unite as one. The Continental Congress of 1787 was convened struggling in contentious debate over many things concerning the ideal of being a nation independent of England. The proceedings were reaching a point of exasperation with many delegates threatening to leave when Benjamin Franklin arose to address President George Washington. Here is but a portion of his comments:

“After groping in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of the danger we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending Providence in our favor. And have we now, in peace, now forgotten that powerful Friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance?

I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth—that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I therefore beg leave to move—that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.”

Nothing has changed as far as our need for Divine Providence to grant wisdom and His special help to be THE nation that God means for us to be. It just takes a remnant and it has always just taken a remnant of peoples in prayer seeking God’s face interceding on behalf of the whole that leads to victories, awakenings, deliverances, and new births. May it be so once again! If the Lord comes today, may He find His church faithful in prayer just as Benjamin Franklin implored, that we may truly become “one nation under God, indivisible…” What a wonderful country He has provided for us. Amen!

Happy 250th Independence Day!
Pastor M

06/25/2026

From the Pastor

Greetings all! May this note find you blessed of the Lord! Last week I was in Tyler, TX going through my parents’ house, cleaning it out and getting it ready to sale. It was hard for me to go through my parents stuff and I’m not finished yet. We got about two-thirds of the way through. I say “we” because thankfully Sydney and Seth helped me. I would not have been able to do that without their help. They were to me a ray of sunshine in a gloomy circumstance. And to further encourage me, I officially began listening to Christmas music. I usually begin in July anyway so a few weeks early isn’t too crazy. Christmas music is soothing and uplifting to me like David playing his harp was for king Saul 😊.

This Sunday Debbie and I will be in Branson MO enjoying a little rest and time away. We will miss being with you in person but will certainly be with you in spirit and watching through our live-stream. We will be in prayer that the presence of God be strong and that the Spirit move in powerful ways. John Cahill will be bringing God’s Word so lift him in prayer as he prepares to share what God has laid on his heart. I am thankful for John! Debbie and I will leave on Saturday and return on Tuesday. We covet your prayers for rest and safe travels.

July 4th is just 9 days away. This year is special because we celebrate 250 years as a nation. We will do our usual thing of cooking and serving hot dogs/watermelon and all the goodies that come along with that. We will have games for kids of all ages AND we will have a 5 piece band to perform beginning around 7pm till dusk. Then we will watch the burst of fireworks all around. Please mark your calendars and be thinking who you may invite. The more the merrier!!

Then on July 5th I will begin a preaching series on the Fruit of the Spirit and Gifts of the Spirit. Please be in prayer for these opportunities when the Holy Spirit will teach and affirm to each one of us the blessings and power of His qualities within the Body of Christ to make a kingdom difference in the world. I’m looking forward to this!!

Grace and peace be yours in abundance!
Pastor M

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