Dear Valley Brook Family, I am writing to you regarding the streaming of our Sunday service. Over the past couple weeks, we have had some technical issues that perhaps have been especially frustrating for you as you have attempted to enjoy the service. I want to, first of all, personally thank you for your patience… Read More »
The View from My Place – “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy”
“For who regards you as superior? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?” (1 Corinthians 4:7). I listen to the news and some of it just makes me shake my head. What is this world… Read More »
“Pastor Dan Baty’s Monday Morning Boost”
If we do not allow any idea to settle in that suggests we are anything but beloved because of Christ, and if our discipline is a discipline of trusting in Him as our righteousness, the theory of God’s love for us will grow into an impregnable conviction. As a result, we will be delightfully surprised… Read More »
Just a Moment with Pastor Dan Baty
“I will be careful to lead a blameless life… I will walk in my house with blameless heart” (Psalm 101:2). As admirable as this aspiration of David’s was, he simply wasn’t able to achieve it. Try as he would, he could neither produce a blameless life nor a blameless heart. This is our story as… Read More »
The View from My Place – “The Unveiling”
“You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something” (Psalm 139:15 MSG) As I invest my heart in the wonderful pursuit of knowing Him, I’m receiving a marvelous dividend, which is discovering… Read More »
“Pastor Dan Baty’s Monday Morning Boost”
God is at work in you. You are His workmanship created in Christ. Have you considered thanking Him for the wonderful work it is? Or is your focus exclusively on asking Him to help you to be “better.” Have you thanked Him lately for all the reminders and refreshments that build and nurture your faith… Read More »
Just a Moment with Pastor Dan Baty
There isn’t a moment of our lives when the Lord is not affectionately and faithfully caring for us. Quite often our greatest benefit rests not in getting “more,” but in greater awareness of the blessings that presently surround us. Blessings such as spiritual perspectives that bring us joy and hope. Physical pleasures and creature comforts.… Read More »
The View From My Place – “Few but True”
It was a simple time for me with the Lord this morning, and afterwards I noted it with this brief prayer of thanksgiving, “Thank You, Lord, for my humble fellowship walk with You today. There were not a lot of ‘fireworks,’ but the blessing is we spent the time together.” It is not the… Read More »
“Pastor Dan Baty’s Monday Morning Boost”
The “Oscars” have been awarded and a new movie season is upon us. But each of us, as believers in Jesus Christ, are part “The Glory of God” production, of which The Lord is Creator, Director and the Star. He has created specific roles for you and me. Each different but none more important than… Read More »
“Pastor Dan Baty’s Monday Morning Boost”
The “Oscars” have been awarded and a new movie season is upon us. But each of us, as believers in Jesus Christ, are part “The Glory of God” production, of which The Lord is Creator, Director and the Star. He has created specific roles for you and me. Each different but none more important than… Read More »
