Powell Butte Christian Church

Associate Pastor Andy Buchanan

What is it about light? LIGHT BRINGS SECURITY - Need the hall light on. Why? Because I was afraid of the dark. LIGHT BRINGS CLARITY - I won’t stumble if I can see the obstacles in front of me. LIGHT BRINGS GROWTH - Vitamin D, photosynthesis, etc. LIGHT REVEALS, IT REPELS, IT CAN EVEN DESTROY VIRUSES APPARENTLY (whonu?) In the OT, the Tabernacle, and then the Temple housed the instruments of worshi...

Look around you and find seven other people. Including yourself, that makes 8 Christians, right? Open Doors just released their World Watch List for 2020 that shines a light on the level of persecution believers face in this world today, and in that report they tell us that the number is now over 260 million Christians – one of every eight believers – experience high levels of persecution. Almost...

I love symmetry! And the Gospel of Matthew is constructed in such a way to demonstrate a beautiful symmetry a LOT. Most of these fall under the Moses/Jesus parallel Which includes Mosaic Law and Sermon on the Mount The Penteteuch and the 5 major teachings of Jesus Perhaps that's what draws Matthew to Jesus. Jesus draws parallels as well. And he structures these Beatitudes in a fascinating way...

The 4th Beatitude. In our series on the Sermon on the Mount, we are beginning as Jesus did: with the blessings - or beatitudes - that he speaks to his followers. These statements of Kingdom character are like a tree. Roots are there in the first three blessings as we consider our relationship with God, and how we need his grace and forgiveness and power to even LIVE in the Kingdom.  Then this 4th...

Last week we began a series on the Sermon on the Mount (Mt. 5-7) This week, Beatitude #2 - some think this is a paradox. BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO MOURN. Or - Happy are the Sad. What in the world?? Let’s take a closer look at the verse. "Blessed are those that mourn, for they will be comforted." Matthew 5:4 Does this really mean that we should be happy when we’re sad, or sad when we’re happy...

This morning we start a series that will most likely take us through the end of the year. It’s a series that will take a close look at the best and quite possibly the most famous sermon ever: the Sermon on the Mount. Of course these few chapters in Matthew’s gospel are not the ONLY words Jesus used while teaching - but the Holy Spirit prompted Matthew to record them because they represent the bulk...

Associate Pastor Andy Buchanan

Associate Pastor Andy Buchanan

Associate Pastor Andy Buchanan

Youth Pastor Ethan Waud

Have you ever seen this little game: Can You Spot the Difference? I love that game! Today’s flannelgraph foundation story is all about Spotting the Difference in a couple of ways. I want you to do some detective work as I tell the story on our flannelgraph, and see if you can spot the differences in TWO SEPARATE PICTURES we see in the story of Jesus healing a demon-possessed man.  Now for those wh...

Our main story today is actually a smaller story intertwined with another, bigger story that I want to tell you through Flannelgraph today…  And the walls came a-tumbling down. Except for part of one wall – a fact that, according to Answers in Genesis, has been confirmed by archeological digs in the ruins of ancient Jericho. A German excavation in the early 1900’s found that on the north side of t...

It would be awesome to be able to walk on water, wouldn’t it? If there was a way for you to experience incredible things, would you do what was necessary in order to see those things happen? In this story there are three things I see that are needed in our lives in order for us to be able to walk on water, to see God work in ways we would never imagine, and to have our lives serve as a testimony f...

One day an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher - what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus answered: “You’re the expert in the Law...how do you interpret what it says?” And the expert in the law said, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. And you must love your neighbor as yourself.” Jesus said: “Cool. Then go do that and you’ll live.”...

Mountains are significant. You don't pack up the fam and drive hundreds of miles to go to Magic Valley. You don't stand in line for 3.5 hours at Disneyland to ride Space Sidewalk. You don't cherish building top experiences. In the Sound of Music, the advice wasn’t to Climb Every Sand Dune. John Denver didn’t praise Rocky Rooftop High…  Mountain of the LORD – sounds impressive, right...

Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man 2 A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. 2 They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. 3 Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. 4 Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd...

I want you to want to see Jesus. Our first story is about a man who desperately wanted to see Jesus, so much so that he really puts himself out there. Who is this man? You guessed it. Our guy today was an IRS agent in Israel - a Jewish man working for the Roman government - and if you think the reputation of OUR IRS agents is bad, you’re gonna find out that it was worse for this man named Zacchaeu...

This Father’s Day morning I want to briefly address the men of PBCC. YOU MATTER. DADS MATTER. Our society has told you that you’re just a donor of genetic material. You have been relegated to an afterthought of the courts, an object of suspicion to the child welfare system, and a buffoon to the media outlets. But I believe that scripture models this principle for us: the more encouraged and suppor...

If only there was a way to know what is good… If only there was a way to know how GOD feels about George Floyd, the rioting, the anger, the lashing out, the racial tension, the perversion of justice, the oppression of people who are on the margins of our society… Wait a second… He has shown you, O Man - O Mortal - O Human, what is good. FaceBook tells me everyday how YOU feel about it (and I have...

We are now at week 7 in a series entitled QUARANTINE - which means 40 days, looking at specific 40 day events found in Scripture. It’s been intriguing to see all the things we can learn in 40 days; to see how God brings about change in that amount of time… 40 days of rain. 40 of repentance. 40 days of relying on the Word of God. 40 days of resisting the humiliating taunts from the Philistine enemy...

It’s entirely possible that just about now you’re getting really tired of the coronavirus situation. I’m tired of staying inside so much, tired of the restrictions and the dumb ways people are implementing them (or NOT implementing them as the case may be. I'm tired of going into the bank looking like I’m part of the Hole in the Wall Gang. I’m tired of Zooming!! What do we do when we feel inu...

So much has transpired in the days of the coronavirus: we’ve talked about watching what God is doing, listening for what God is teaching us, making His Word central in our lives, finding out what needs to be done away with that fails to bring glory to God… I hear a couple of things: 1 – we want this to be over (Yes, of course) 2 – we can hardly wait to go back to the way things used to be… AH! The...

“Lord, let me out. You hurled me in here! I’m in the midst of seaweed wrapped around my head and stale water all around me. I know You can lift me up from this stench. I forgot You for awhile – but now I remember! I know that others cling to worthless idols. I know they turn their back on the grace that could be theirs. Even in this muck,I will sing a song of Thanksgiving because I know that it’s...

So, where’s your focus right now? On things you’re missing? I’m sure your list is growing: Visiting parents, Hanging out with friends, Our “normal” routines: school, workplace, etc., Ministry I’ve told you this story before – it was on my way back into town on an early Sunday morning. I was in a bit of a rush… and all of a sudden I hit that dang red light there at Veterans and 97. I was inconvenie...