Dear Members and Friends of IBCZ, For the past two weeks we have been focusing on the meaning, nature, and practice of worship. I’ve emphasized during these sermons the importance of the mind in worship. The more we understand about God and His ways, the more we will be led
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Last Sunday our theme was “Why We Worship.” We saw that worship is essentially declaring the worth of something or someone. When we worship God, we are proclaiming God’s worth – His greatness, excellence, majesty, and splendor. A question we might ask is: How
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Last Sunday we concluded our series on the Attributes of God with “The Sovereignty of God.” The sovereignty of God refers to God’s power, authority, and ultimate rule over His creation. God’s sovereignty guarantees that His perfect will shall come to pass. Even though
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Last week I encouraged you to pray for our church camp, and I am pleased to report that we had a wonderful time. God blessed us with warm fellowship, deepening relationships, both challenge and inspiration in serving faithfully, and lots of fun as well.
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Let me begin by thanking everyone for your prayers for me regarding German. As most of you know, Switzerland requires religious workers to reach a B1 level of German. A big part of this past year was given to German study. I am happy
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Last Sunday we examined the justice and mercy of God – two wonderful attributes of God, although to see and experience their true wonder they must be held together. Justice has to do with treating people fairly by giving them what they deserve, be
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, As we are continuing our study of the attributes of God, last Sunday we considered the wisdom of God. Wisdom goes beyond knowledge, for while knowledge has to do with knowing the facts and knowing the truth, wisdom involves taking those facts and that
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, This Sunday we will be having our Fellowship Meal together following our worship service. The Wallisellen Home Group is sponsoring this one, but of course, it would be appreciated if you could bring some food to share also. As a church, we are so
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Two weeks ago, our morning message was on the holiness of God. We saw that holiness refers to both God’s complete distinction from everything else (God is eternal, unchanging, perfect in power, wisdom, faithfulness, etc.), as well as His moral perfection and absolute goodness. Furthermore,
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, For several months we have been hearing about the Festival of Thought, taking place in the Zurich area Sept. 22-28. The Festival actually kicks off at IBCZ this coming Sunday as Andy Moore, co-founder of the Festival of Thought, will bring our morning message.
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