by Derek Fekkes | Mar 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
By Anlee Fekkes Today starts in grief. I know joy comes in the morning, but today mourning comes in the morning. Yesterday a horrific tragedy took place. A person entered a school with a purpose to end other’s lives. We’re familiar with this story. It seems to be on...
by Derek Fekkes | Mar 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Corinthians 15:21-22 At the heart of Christianity is a coming to Christ, or more specifically, coming to God in...
by Derek Fekkes | Jan 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. 1...
by Derek Fekkes | Jan 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
We’re currently preaching through 1 Corinthians 12-14, the main biblical passage on spiritual gifts. There is lots of confusion about spiritual gifts today, just as there was among the Corinthians that Paul is writing to. Part of this confusion is that we tend to...
by Derek Fekkes | Dec 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
During this time of year, I thank God that the gospel is more than sentimental. That the gospel of Christ—born, living, crucified, and risen for sinners like me–is true, in the truest sense, and that its power and effectiveness is not in “all the feels” it...
by Derek Fekkes | Dec 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
It is important to realize that membership and ministry in a local church means playing the long game. We will miss much of the fruit of God’s purposes for the church–and our lives–if we don’t take a long-term view, and instead remove ourselves as soon as...
by Derek Fekkes | Sep 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, 30 and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who...
by Derek Fekkes | Aug 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
“In the cross of Christ I glory, towering o’er the wrecks of time; all the light of sacred story, gathers round its head sublime.” So goes the opening words of one of the songs we sing. The idea is that Christ on the cross stands at the center of...
by Derek Fekkes | Aug 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Roots Church Family Camp is Wednesday, August 17-Sunday, August 21. This coming Sunday (8/21), there will be no morning service at Roots in Stanwood. You are welcome to come worship with us that day at 10:30a at Rasar State Park near Concrete, at the Salmon Group Camp...
by Derek Fekkes | Jun 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
This past Sunday we concluded our short series on church polity or governance by considering the role of elders. The Bible calls elders “shepherds,” giving us a wonderful image of their role towards their congregation: to guide, feed, protect, tend to, care for, and...
