Dear Members and Friends of IBCZ, I want to share with you about several important opportunities we have as a church in the coming weeks. First, Feb. 23-29 will be our annual Prayer Week. During this week, our hope is that all will join in praying for IBCZ. Each day
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, One of the lessons from Exodus 1, which we studied last Sunday, is that sometimes God disrupts our lives. There will be occasions when God allows certain circumstances into our lives that are difficult and painful, not what we expected or desired. However, we
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, The Christian evangelist and author Leighton Ford wrote, “From the time we were children we were told to ‘pay attention,’ as if this were the simplest thing in the world. But in fact attentiveness is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp and
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, One of the great gifts God has given us is our memory – the ability to remember things. As we know, when people reach their senior years, unfortunately often their memory fades and they become forgetful. But long before that process sets in, we
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, We are now several weeks into 2020. I hope the year has gotten off to a good start for you. At this time of year, one passage of Scripture is especially relevant – Psalm 1. Verses 1-3 read: 1 Blessed is the one who does
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ Now that the hectic festivities of Christmas are over we might find some quiet moments when we can think about what the event means for us. The references to a coming savior for humanity go through the whole bible, right from the beginning. Many
Continue readingAt the turn of the year, it is again time to reflect on the past 12 months and consider the goals we had set at the beginning of the year, the extent to which we attained them and maybe formulate a new set of goals for the year ahead. It
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, When the angel appeared to Joseph to inform him that the Holy Spirit had miraculously enabled Mary to become pregnant and she would bear a son, the angel went on to quote the prophecy in Is. 7:14, “The virgin will conceive and give birth
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, This past Sunday we considered one of the often-overlooked characters in the Christmas story – Joseph. Joseph had to respond to the most unexpected news imaginable – the woman he was engaged to was pregnant. We saw how Joseph was willing to die to
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Last Sunday we considered the importance of keeping all the ingredients of the Christmas season in proper perspective. The parties, the decorations, the gifts, the get-togethers, and all the other festivities of Christmas are great; they bring us some “holiday cheer,” and we can
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