The Scriptures Inspired
The Bible is the inspired Word of God, a revelation from God to man, the infallible rule of faith and conduct, and is superior to conscience and reason, but not contrary to reason.
2 Tim. 3:15-17; 1 Peter 1:23-25; Heb. 4:12
The One True God
God is three separate and distinct personalities known as the Trinity. He is God The Father, God The Son, and God The Holy Spirit, eternally self-existent, self-revealed as one entity. Jesus Christ, who is God manifested in the flesh, is the second member of the Godhead, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and The Holy Spirit.
Man, His Fall and Redemption
Man was created good and upright.
God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness”
But man, by voluntary transgression, fell and his only hope of redemption is in Jesus Christ the Son of God
Genesis 1:26-31, 3:1-7; Romans 5:12-21
The Salvation of Man
Man’s only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. On the cross Jesus Christ became sin and sickness providing both salvation and divine healing for all mankind, (Psalm 103:3, Isaiah 53:4, 5) being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. For by grace we are saved through faith.
“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart: that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation”
Romans 3:24; Ephesians 2:8, Romans 10:8-10
The Evidences of Salvation
The inward evidence, to the believer of his salvation, is the direct witness of the Spirit (Romans 8:16). The outward evidence to all men is the life of righteousness and true holiness.
“And this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us” (1 John 3:23).
Faith and Works
Salvation is by faith in Jesus Christ and not by human works; however, our works will determine the rewards in eternity.
Acts 16:3; Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5-7; and 2 Cor. 5:10
Baptism in Water
The ordinance of baptism by burial with Christ should be observed as commanded in the Scriptures by all who have really repented and in their hearts have truly believed on Christ as Savior and Lord. In so doing, they declare to the world that they have died with Jesus and that they have also been raised with Him to walk in newness of life.
Matt. 28:19; Acts 10:47, 48; Romans 6:4
The Lord’s Supper
We are to partake of the Lord's supper just as He instructed us to do in His Holy Word.
“And when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, ‘This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.’ In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.’ Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.” (1 Cor. 11:24,25,28)
Baptism in the Holy Spirit
We believe that we can receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which will give us power to be witnesses for Jesus Christ.
The Church is the Body of Christ, the habitation of God through the Spirit, with divine appointment for the fulfillment of her Great Commission. Each believer, born of the Spirit, is an integral part of the general assembly and Church of the first born, which are written in Heaven.
Ephesians 1:22; 2:19-22; Hebrews 12:23
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|Alvin D. Byler, of Grove City, MN, died on Monday, September 25, 2017, at the age of
87. He was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather. He was a
member of Believers Fellowship Mennonite Church in Grove City, MN, and was a faithful
minister of the gospel for over fifty years. In his lifetime Alvin was a farmer, carpenter,
and a business man.
Alvin D. Byler was born on June 6, 1930, in New Wilmington, PA, the son of the late
Daniel H. and Lena J. (Byler) Byler. He was united in marriage to Anna Mary Byler of
Catlett, Virginia, on December 13, 1951. This union was blessed with 13 children. Anna
Mary passed away on September 17, 1991, after 39 years of marriage. On January 9,
1993, Alvin married Fannie (Yoder) Miller of Grove City, MN, where they resided until his
Alvin is survived by Fannie, his wife of 24 years; his children: Cora Coblentz (husband
David) of Millersburg, OH, Elsie Reese (husband Tom) of Warrenton, VA, Loretta
Beachy (husband Simon) of Itasca, TX, Leroy (wife Rhonda) of Remington, VA, Michael
(wife Wendy) of Middleburg, PA, Barbara Kauffman (husband Kenneth) of Huntsville,
AR, Lydia Hornick (husband Oliver) of Hagerstown, MD, Stephen (wife Diane) of Catlett,
VA, William (wife Dorcas) of Brevard, NC, Larry (wife Kay) of Grantsville, MD, Twila
Yoder (husband John) of Belleville, PA, and Mary Lu Swartzentruber (husband Jerry) of
Casanova, VA; 44 grandchildren; 31 great grandchildren. Step children: Marvin (wife
Neva) of Grove City, MN, Lucille, of Grove City, MN, Freeman (wife Aimee) of Levelland,
TX, Frieda Chupp (husband Mark) of Eden Valley, MN, Dennis (wife Naomi) of Curtis, WI,
Daryl (wife Kay) of Paynesville, MN, Joseph (wife Regina) of Eden Valley, MN and Julia
Yutzy (husband Jason) of Grove City, MN; 38 step grandchildren; and 19 step great -
grandchildren. He is also survived by a sister, Ada Beachy, and many nieces and
Alvin was preceded in death by his parents Dan and Lena Byler; Anna Mary--his first
wife of 39 years, a son Kenneth Allen; a grandchild Michael Irving Byler; a step
grandchild Benjamin John Miller; brothers Harvey and Henry, and sister Sylvia Beachy.
Alvin’s prayer was to cross the Jordan into Glory through peaceful shallow waters.
However, the Lord in His sovereignty took him through deep stormy waters to his eternal
reward. Alvin was faithful to the end. Glory be to God.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that contributions be made to the building fund of
Believers Fellowship Mennonite Church, 34419 520th Ave, Grove City, MN 56243.


Poem written by Flora Smith, age 12.
Is This What Easter Be?
Out of the stores come garlands and elves,
So chocolate bunnies can fill the shelves.
Egg and peeps, you now can see,
Is this what Easter be?
Games and egg-hunts are now afoot.
Parents hide goodies in every nook.
Little children cry with glee.
But, is this what Easter be?
The stores try to get you to buy lots of things,
Candy and gum and cute little rings.
They see this as a money-making spree.
This cannot Easter be!
No, Easter is not about treats and eggs,
It’s about Jesus nailed up with pegs.
On a cross for you and me,
Oh, this is what Easter be!
Jesus, oh, yes! He was God’s Son,
He fought the battle and it is won.
After He died, He rose on day three,
So remember, this is what Easter be!


You know we’re friends when I’m willing to (cautiously) break my self-imposed reading rules for you. One of these rules, and the one I most stick to, is no Christian fiction, and for pity’s sake no Christian YA fiction. I am a Christian but that doesn’t mean I will lower my literary standards for Christian authors, and it also doesn’t mean I enjoy being beaten over the head with a (generally poor) Gospel sermon every time I pick up my book to relax. I
have had never yet read a
well-written Christian fiction novel, let alone the double-whammy of a
Christian YA novel.
Well, I’ve made a new friend the last few months, and I broke my rule, and I’m very happy I did so. Like Moonlight at Low Tide is everything I didn’t think Christian YA fiction could ever be, and everything I think it should be.
When high school junior Melissa Keiser returns to her hometown of Anna Maria Island, Florida, she has one goal: hide from the bullies who had convinced her she was the ugliest girl in school. But when she is caught sneaking into a neighbor's pool at night, everything changes. Something is different now that Melissa is sixteen, and the guys and popular girls who once made her life miserable have taken notice. When Melissa gets the chance to escape life in a house ruled by her mom's latest boyfriend, she must choose where her loyalties lie between a long-time crush, a new friend, and her surfer brother who makes it impossible to forget her roots. Just as Melissa seems to achieve everything she ever wanted, she loses a loved one to suicide. Melissa must not only grieve for her loss, she must find the truth about the three boys who loved her and discover that joy sometimes comes from the most unexpected place of all.
On the surface it sounds like a fairly run-of-the-mill YA novel. But as I started reading it, I was pleasantly surprised. Missy is fighting to keep her head above water in the one place she’d hoped never to return to. But nothing is what she’d expected. She is forced to confront elements of her past that she’d rather forget about, and deal with a painful present. Add to that the three boys in her life that all love her different ways – her popular long-time crush, the new friend that gives her a haven away from her home, and her brother, desperately pursuing his dream to one day escape. She calls them “the boy who loved me, the one who couldn’t, and the one who didn’t know how.” It’s part of the mystery of this story as you try to figure out which boy falls into which category.
My primary problems with Christian YA are threefold. They tend to be poorly written and overly preachy, as I said above. But also, they seem to have the exact opposite problem secular YA has – they’re too squeaky-clean and overly sanitized. Now I know that may seem like an odd complaint, but it’s not the fact that they’re “clean” that I take issue with. It’s the unrealistically, perfect Christian girl trope…the oh-so-saccharine, evangelical Mary Sue. I have no interest in having a fantastically ideal inhuman Christian thrown in my face. It’s not helpful for me, and only serves to aggravate me with useless comparisons, or disgust at such an outlandish character. Christianity is not neat and tidy. It’s a messy, difficult, painful journey – there’s a reason it’s compared to warfare in the Bible. And no Christian novels seem to effectively capture this for me.
But in Like Moonlight, it’s not about portraying a perfect Christian. It’s about showing how faith heals broken people. Missy’s life is broken, her family is broken, and she is broken. There’s nowhere for her to turn, and the harder she tries to find an answer, the more she realizes how lost she really is. She’s no perfect Mary Sue. She’s a perfectly human human.
This is not a squeaky-clean book (thank heavens), but neither is it full of profligacy and foul language. Quigley does not go out of her way to show sin and ugliness in full-color detail, nor does she dwell on it unduly. She simply shows that it is there, and how it affects people. Again, that’s how life is. We are surrounded by sin and ugliness, and while we may not want to dwell on that, we cannot close our eyes to it. Quigley balances things well. Overall, this is a generally well-written novel. The setting lives and breathes and the characters are fairly well-developed. I look forward to reading it again.
Four stars out of five, and I highly recommend this book to all Christian young adults, and any Christian fiction skeptics, who are willing to give it a try.
What about you? Have you read this one? What did you think of it?


The chairman of the board of trustees of the Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Nikola in Brookfield confirmed that the parish was interested in purchasing the campus of St. Barbara’s Church, including the church building, the parish hall, the school and the convent.
St. Barbara’s Church, 4008 Prairie Ave. in Brookfield, is one of the two places of worship of the Holy Guardian Angels Catholic Parish, which was established by the consolidation of St. Barbara and Ste. Louise de Marillac in 2019.
The school building and convent have been for sale for over a year, but there was no previous indication that the archdiocese would consider parting with the church and parish hall.
St. Nikola’s church board chairman, Tom Milutinovic, told the Landmark in a telephone interview on August 23 that the acquisition of St. Barbara’s properties was being considered, although he acknowledged that the idea was not universally popular among the faithful of St. Nikola Church.
“We are dealing with people’s emotions and desires, and there aren’t always logical decisions to be made,” Milutinovic said. âThat’s why the advice is there.
If the board of trustees of St. Nikola’s Church were able to come to an agreement on St. Barbara’s properties, the plan would be to sell their current land at the corner of Prairie and Shields avenues, which includes the church / existing room, parking, vacant land and four single-family homes.
A single-family home immediately south of the church on Prairie Avenue serves as the parish rectory. Three houses immediately south of the church property on Forest Avenue Houses are used to house ward assistant priests and those arriving in the United States from Serbia, providing temporary accommodation, Milutinovic said.
St. Nikola Church moved from Chicago to 4301 Prairie Ave. in Brookfield in 2010. The parish has since paid off the mortgage and over the past two years has been making plans to build a new Byzantine-style church in the southeast corner of the property. .
In April, the Brookfield Village Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve the parish’s plans for a new building, but that plan has been put on hold as the board and pastor explore the possibility of purchase the properties of St. Barbara’s Church.
âSt. Barbara is perfect,â said Milutinovic. âThere is a gym, meeting rooms, a beautiful church, a school and a convent, where people can stay and we can help their families. “
Reverend Brian Kean, pastor of Holy Guardian Angels Parish, confirmed that representatives from St. Nikola Church had visited St. Barbara and expressed interest in purchasing the entire campus.
However, Kean said that to his knowledge there was no formal offer on the table and he was not aware of any ongoing negotiations. That said, all negotiations would be handled by the Archdiocese of Chicago’s real estate department, not the Holy Guardian Angels, although Kean said he would likely be made aware of any serious offers.
When asked if there was imminent action, Milutinovic said: “We would like something imminent, but with all the fuss, we don’t know which direction to go.”
The “turmoil” came to the fore last week in the form of an online petition among church members which, as of August 23, had collected 187 signatures after being published on August 17. The petition does not mention the potential purchase of St. Barbara’s Church, but does mention the possible sale of property that the parish already owns and where it currently holds services and other parish activities.
Entitled simply âSave Our Churchâ, the petition was created by a parishioner who refers to the fact that the church is debt free and that the village has already approved the construction of a new place of worship on this site.
âCurrently, the new parish priest and some members of the church board want to share this property and sell it,â the petition says. “Please sign this petition if you want to SAVE our CHURCH and stay in the current property!” “
Several of the petition’s signatories also made comments, with one particular sore point appearing to be the board not involving the larger parish in discussing possible options.
âI am signing this petition because important decisions such as buying / selling and relocating the church should be discussed with the largest group of members and parishioners,â one person commented. âThese actions are incredibly disrespectful and probably illegal in terms of decision making / execution by the board and the current priest. No transparency on funding, costs, responsibilities or strategy shared with the whole community. A real disappointment and a poor example of what is expected of church leaders.
It is not clear exactly how the purchase of the properties of St. Barbara’s Church would be financed, but Milutinovic indicated that part of the reason for the delay in building a new church is that they did not still been able to collect enough money.
âFinancially, we didn’t get the fundraising to go in any direction,â Milutinovic said.
Another reason for the delay, he said, is that not everyone is happy with the design of the new church.
“It was very difficult to get everyone involved,” said Milutinovic.
The online petition, which Milutinovic said should not have been published and contains “false information” implying that the church is in danger of closure, complicated matters. From her perspective, however, the properties of St. Barbara make the most sense in terms of parish growth.
âSt. Barbara is the future,â he said. “He has got everything.”


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In this issue, we cover the complicated problem of power. This topic has received a lot of attention recently due to the many ways that people have exposed how powerful people have abused their power. We hope these articles will contribute to that conversations by exposing specific abuses, but also by showing how the Gospel of Jesus Christ leads to the potential redeeming of power in our daily lives, whatever domain we may have power over.
We have placed the articles in a specific outline with the hope that the reader will start from the beginning and read until the end. Of course, each piece stands alone and can be read by itself as well, but hopefully you will see the connections between each article, the most common theme being that power is not inherently evil. We just tend to look for power in the wrong places and therefore end up with corrupted power.
Throughout this issue, you will notice various emphases put on political power. Michael Key sets the issue up well by explaining how we Evangelicals seek power through legislation or political action. Peter Elliot and Tymarcus Ragland then take that thread and elaborate on ways that mere legislation and political action are not enough for serious change. We, as individuals and as communities, must change. As Tymarcus writes, “friendship, the most fundamental unit of a community in addition to the family, cannot be legislated.”
Wedged between these more political pieces are two articles that focus specifically on the spiritual disciplines of scripture reading and prayer as a way to reimagine what power can be. Cory Rankin clearly outlines how the Holy Word of God reshapes our definition of power, pointing out that God delegated His great power to us even before the Fall. Cory reminds us that “as new creations (2 Cor. 5:17), we can view power in a different way, in a redeemed way and we can also show the watching world what power is meant to look like.”
We end the issue with a reminder of our need to pray, framing prayer as a source of rebellion against the powerful narratives we face in our daily lives. Our hope is that these articles will point you to the perfect source of power: The Triune God. We believe that He gives us access to a proper vision of power, that He restores those who have been abused by people in power, and that He can help us reimagine what power can be.