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Holy Week Devotion – Good Friday

April 10, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

Friday, April 10 John 19: 30 “It is Finished” The thing that is “finished” here, I think, is not just the execution of Jesus. The cross is the humble ending to life well lived. We can over focus on the dramatic events of Holy Week to the...

Holy Week Devotion – Maundy Thursday

April 9, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

Thursday, April 9 John 19: 28-29 “I thirst.” It’s Maundy Thursday, and usually we gather for a deeply meaningful service, punctuated by the more foreboding feeling it creates; a sort of deeply felt disturbance rather than a feeling of inner...

Holy Week Devotion – Wednesday

April 8, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

Wednesday, April 8 Matthew 27:46 “My God, my God, why have you forsaken Me?” Jesus’ painful words here are a quote from Psalm 22, a Psalm of lament. To my knowledge, there aren’t many worship songs or sermons that come from Psalms of...

Weekly Pastoral Note – April 7

April 7, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

Dear Yates Family – If you do not make it all the way to the end of this letter, I begin with an invitation. Join us for an online prayer service on Maundy Thursday evening, April 9, at 7:00 PM. To participate, follow this link...

Holy Week Devotion – Tuesday

April 7, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

Tuesday, April 7 John 19: 26-27 “Woman, behold your son.” “What would it be like if I told you I saw three of them?” Those are the words I remember the doctor speaking to us the day we found out we were having triplets. Everything changed in...

Holy Week Devotion – Monday

April 6, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

Monday, April 6 Luke 23:32-43 “Today you will be with me in paradise.” The story of the two criminals crucified with Christ may be one that is familiar but it is full of details. The two criminals were being crucified alongside Christ, which...

Holy Week Devotion – Palm Sunday

April 5, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

Luke 23:32-34 “Father, Forgive Them” The first sentence from the cross is a prayer, and it is at the cross that Jesus teaches us to pray. He doesn’t begin his words from the cross addressing the disciples, the religious leaders, the soldiers, the...

Pastoral Note – March 31

March 31, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

Dear Yates Family, I am praying for you every day. As I pray for you this week, I do it recognizing that our time as a scattered church and disparate community will last longer than we first imagined. My prayer this week is for that often...

Pastoral Note – March 24

March 24, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

Dear Yates Family, I hope this letter finds each of you safe and at home as we walk together and support one another through all the pandemic precautions of our time. I’m praying for you and our church, that we would truly be that “growing...

Coronavirus: A Pastoral Letter from Christopher Ingram

March 13, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

March 13, 2020 Dear Yates Family, Who among us on Monday thought that by Friday we would be confronted with so many decisions, precautions and protocols to reduce the transmission of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus? Yet, because of the facts before...

Yates Visioning Update – Week of March 12

March 12, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

Yates Visioning Process update By September 2019, after several months of listening and discernment, the Visioning Leadership Team felt led by the Holy Spirit to focus on three areas in the visioning process: discipleship, community, and...

Coronavirus, The Yates Baptist Church Community, and YOU

March 5, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause a great deal of concern across the world, and with diagnosed cases in the Triangle area, we want to address some specifics about our response as a church community. We do this not to create a sense of...