We are continuing our series, “We the Church.” God gave each of us parents to love us, provide for us, protect us, and to raise us. While no parent is perfect, most of us have benefited from our parents’ love, care, and direction. As believers, God gave us another type of family-the church. God’s purpose […]

Continue reading

We the Church: Our Guide

Happy New Year! I hope that you are looking forward to 2017. I believe that God has some great things in store for our Wayside family. As we look toward a new year we should make sure that we set our hearts and minds on the things that are important to God. We are beginning […]

Continue reading

Emotions of Christmas: Fear

Christmas is a time most people associate with warm happy feelings. However, those who experienced the very first Christmas experienced some emotions that were neither warm nor happy. When the angel appeared to the shepherds they were afraid. One minute they were sitting in the dark watching the sheep and the next an angel appeared […]

Continue reading

Not Alone

One of the greatest needs that we have is the need to know that we are not alone. That is why one of the greatest promises in the Bible is that God is with us. The promise of God’s presence guides us through the good times and gives us the courage to face difficult times. […]

Continue reading

Now What?

This week we are continuing our “Faith up Stream” series. Each of us has had those moments in life where something happens that we simply do not expect or understand. In those moments it can be very difficult to know what to do. If we are not careful we can get trapped in a cycle […]

Continue reading

Counterfeit Faith

Today we are beginning a new sermon series. The title of the series is “Faith Up Stream.” The sermons come from 1 and 2 Kings. During this time frame, Ahab was the king of the northern tribes of Israel. Ahab and his wife Jezebel encouraged the people to turn from their faith in the Lord […]

Continue reading

Mysterious Ways: Sinful

This is the conclusion of the “Mysterious Ways”, sermon series. Have you ever done something and then realized that you had really messed up? I think that most of us have had that feeling at least once in our lives. When we mess up we begin to ask what it is going to take to […]

Continue reading