Dear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Last Sunday we considered the church as the Bride of Christ. As His Bride, our relationship with God is rooted in love – first, His love for us, and then in response, our love for God. Nothing renews, deepens, and energizes our faith like
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, For the past two weeks I have been sharing about community – the life we experience as a church family as we love one another, care for one another, forgive one another, bear with one another, and encourage one another. We have seen that
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Last week I wrote about the importance of community within the church. The church is not to be a place where we come, sit through a worship service, and then leave. The church is the people who are drawn to God and to one
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, One of the common themes we’ve encountered in our sermon series on The Church has been community. Several whole sermons were devoted to this (“What Is the Church?” which highlighted the church as the people of God being called together; and “The Church: A
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Last Sunday our theme was “Gifted to Serve.” We saw how everyone in the church is gifted by the Holy Spirit to make some kind of meaningful contribution to the life and ministry of the church. No one has all the gifts, but all
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, As was announced last Sunday, and as you probably know, the Swiss Government has enacted new regulations for public gatherings in light of the increasing number of people infected with Covid. As of now, these measures will be in place until Jan. 24, 2022.
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Last Sunday we considered what it means for us as a church to be a committed fellowship, a community of believers in Jesus Christ. We saw the importance Scripture places on living out our faith together, supporting and encouraging one another, meeting the needs
Continue readingDear 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
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