Author Archives: Maureen Duffy-Guy

January 10, 2021 We’re in the “Run to Win” sermon series, where we are in spiritual training to make God a greater priority in our lives this year than he was last. Last week we talked about running toward God, like the wiseman hurried to find the new king, Jesus. They made it to the finishContinue reading “The Power of Prayer”

Jan. 3, 2021  It’s a new year and I’m so excited we’re starting it off with this series: “Run to Win!” As last year ended, I heard a lot on TV and social media, about how 2020 was a terrible year. It was a tough year. Now I can’t stand here and say, “2021 willContinue reading “Run Toward Him”

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! I really enjoyed it. It was a relaxed day. I think what I enjoyed most was there was no going out to buy one more thing you forgot. The stores were closed! It was a nice day with family to celebrate the Savior’s birth.   This week starts a NewContinue reading “The Reason for the Wait”

We’re in the last of our message series: God with us! We’ve learned God is with us in the Valley. He doesn’t leave us when we’re in a low time. We learned God is with us in the wilderness: when we feel all alone and afraid, God is there in quiet, still ways, taking careContinue reading “God with Us: ALWAYS!”

We are in part three of our four-part message series: God with us. We are basing it off the verse from the Christmas story, Matthew 1:23, that says, “Look, the virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and they will call him “Emmanuel” which means, “God with us!” God became a human,Continue reading “God with Us In the Storm”

We are on part two of our message series called “God with us.” We’re letting a verse from the Christmas story be an anchor for us. In Matthew’s gospel, 1:23, it says, “Look, the virgin will conceive a child. She’ll give birth to a son, and they will call him Emmanuel, which means, “God with us.”  Last week we learnedContinue reading “God with Us in the Wilderness”

Today is the start of Advent and we are beginning a new message series. There is an Advent hymn: O come O Come …who? Emmanuel! We call Jesus Emmanuel, because of the verse from Matthew 1:23, “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which means, God is withContinue reading “God With Us In the Valley”

Today is Christ the King Sunday, the last day of the church year. Christ is King! God as king makes me think of God, up in the sky, far away from us and life here on earth. We want to be close to God and experience peace, joy, and the blessings of knowing Him. SoContinue reading “The Joy of Living a Merciful Life”

Today we’re going to talk about taking responsibility for our lives.  Irresponsibility is when I don’t take responsibility for the things I’m responsible for, and when I’m irresponsible, someone else has to take up my responsibility. Irresponsibility is not easy to recognize in yourself. And irresponsibility started from the beginning of time.  In one of the first stories in ourContinue reading “Your Response Ability”

Wouldn’t it be nice to be descended from someone famous? My mom used to say we were descended from the great King of Ireland, Brian Boru. But, she said, “Everyone who is Irish thinks they are descended from him.”   Maybe you are related to someone famous. But even if you are not, if you areContinue reading “Shining Through”