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Although we are only five weeks into the new year, our average weekly offerings thus far in 2019 are $2,030. This figure represents the second highest average weekly offering we’ve experienced at this time of the year throughout…
Common Crooks
Sermon By Terry Siverd Cortland Church of Christ / February 03, 2019 Our nation’s founding fathers inscribed our country’s Declaration Of Independence with many noble ideas. Among the many expressions we read in this important document is a…
Hear The Children Crying
Nothing has brought me a greater chill than the recent passage of a New York state legislative bill labeled, the Reproductive Health Act. More than anything we’ve witnessed of late, this is a grave indicator of the moral…
Robbed In Our Latter Days
Sermon By Terry Siverd Cortland Church of Christ / January 20, 2019 One of the saddest stories in the annals of early American history is found in the latter days of President Thomas Jefferson. In his captivating biography…
Where In The World Are The Brazles?
In case you are not aware of it, our beloved camp directors, David & Lara Brazle and their two children are on a sabbatical of sorts. David has taken a leave of absence from his teaching post with…
Delusions Of Grandeur
Although the idea of riding in an autonomous vehicle might be unnerving to quite a few, autonomy is not always a bad thing. A robot comes in pretty handy when a potential bomb site needs to be “eye-balled”…
Delusions Of Grandeur
Sermon By Terry Siverd Cortland Church of Christ / January 13, 2019 We’ve heard the word AUTONOMY used quite a bit today. Engineers have introduced autonomous vehicles (cars & trucks and drones and even spacecraft & high-tech planes).…
Joy Lost In Sin
Many things can rob us of joy (people, circumstances, worry, possessions, etc.), but it might well be that SIN is the biggest robber of them all. While obedience brings joy, sinfulness brings sorrow. The Hebrew psalter opens by…
Joy Lost In Sin
Sermon By Terry Siverd Cortland Church of Christ / January 06, 2019 Our thanks to Vic Rossi & Brian Alfred for teaching and preaching last Sunday. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL! We want to continue with…
A Fresh New Start
(An Excerpt From The Christian Chronicle, January 2019 – – “From Prison To Salvation”) After I failed in all my ways to proceed with education, I lost all hope and I became a drug dealer. Worse still, I…