Dear 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.
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Last Sunday I began a new sermon series: Getting to Know God. We will be looking at some of the attributes of God, the characteristics of God that “make God God.” We began by considering the love of God, a good place to start
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, I want to begin by thanking everyone who helped with our Church Family BBQ last Sunday. It was such a wonderful time of simply being together and enjoying our relationships with each other. I am so grateful that almost everyone stayed after church for
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Our Scripture passage for last week was Prov. 3:5-6, a familiar text that encourages us to trust in the Lord with all our hearts. Perhaps it seems unrealistic or impractical to trust fully in God, but the truth is, everyone places there trust somewhere.
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, This past Sunday we concluded our sermon series on the seven letters from the Risen Christ to the seven 1st century churches as found in Rev. 2-3. Either by way of affirmation for its presence, or rebuke for its absence, each of these letters
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, How is your vision? By that, I am not referring to how well you see, but rather from what perspective you see things. Some people see the glass half-full, others see it half-empty. Last Sunday we examined the ancient Church at Philadelphia and the message Christ
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, As we saw last Sunday, the ancient church at Sardis had a serious problem: they had a reputation for being alive, but Jesus said they were dead. While others thought well of them in light of all the activity taking place in that church,
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