From the Desk of Pastor Stephen

Welcome to First CRC of Orange City. I would love to have you join us for any of our services or events and get to know you better.

If you join us for the morning service, you will find us in a sermon series on Identity, focusing on the questions ‘who am I’ and ‘how can I know?’ I am working on a Doctor of Ministry in preaching and doing research for my dissertation on ‘how to preach to a culture with an identity crisis’, focusing on the work of Apologist Cornelius Van Til. This series will explore deep questions about Theology (the nature of God), Anthropology (the nature of Humanity), and Epistomology (the study of knowledge), as well as a deep dive into the philophies of our age and how we got here. But it will become very practical very quickly as we find a sure and certain hope in this confusing and uncertain world.

In the evening services we will be working our way through the Heidelberg Catechism. One of the most beloved tools in the history of Christianity for sharing the basics of the faith, we will discover how WHAT we believe gives very personal and practical comfort and hope to US today. This is no ivory tower academic catechism, but the heartfelt faith of real Christians in the midst of extraordinary struggles expressing and sharing for us what our only comfort in life and in death is.