Dear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Last Sunday we considered the importance of prayer in the life of the church. The ministry of the church must be undergirded by prayer, for God guides us in prayer and empowers us to do His work through prayer. We know this is true,
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Last Sunday we considered the importance of our attendance at church worship services as well as other church functions. We examined three metaphors for the church in Scripture which highlight this. First, the church is “the people of God” (I Pet. 2:10). This doesn’t
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Last Sunday we began our fall preaching series, focusing both on our Church Covenant, as well as discovering more about just what the church is and what God calls us to do as His church. Here is a summary of the main points to
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, This coming Sunday I will begin a new series of sermons on the church – its nature, its purpose, how it should function, and what it means for us to be a part of it. I believe this will be very helpful, instructive, and
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Daniela and I are happy to be back with you after our vacation in the United States. Thank you for your prayers while we were away, and thanks also to Adrian Groza, Oliver Herrmann, and Andreas Wiget for preaching in my absence. As I’m
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, In the message last week on God’s purpose for our lives, I referred to “the dash,” the hyphen on a tombstone that is used to separate the dates of one’s birth and death. That dash represents the whole of our lives, the things we
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Ignaz Philip Semmelweis was born in 1818 in what is now Budapest, Hungary. He was a physician at a time when 25-30% of women who gave birth in hospitals died of puerperal fever/infection. Practicing medicine in Vienna and later Pest, he was able to
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Our message this week is a letter of introduction by Dejan (Denny) Georgiev. The Elders are recommending Dejan be approved as a Deacon at IBCZ at our Business Meeting, July 4. Dear IBCZ Church, My name is Dejan Georgiev, born in 1988 (32 years
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, This week I am concluding this series on living a life worthy or our calling, based on Eph. 4:1-2, where Paul writes, “As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, I am continuing this short series of messages on living a life worthy of our calling from Eph. 4:1-2, where Paul writes, “As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be
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