Blessings on Blessings

April 29, 2026

Leadership Notes

     We are blessed beyond measure. God is so, so good to us. I’m thinking here about the opening verse to a praise song by Phil Wickham:

This is my story, I testify

The blessings on blessings You poured on my life

When I start remembering how good You've been

Fear turns to worship, tears turn to praise

Chains of depression broken by grace

When I start remembering how good You've been

We resonate with that song. Every time we gather for worship here at 5290 Milwaukee Road, our thoughts are filled with thanksgiving for how God is building His church. When I think about the lives positively impacted and the people helped through this small church in our little corner of God’s Kingdom, it fills me with joy. You are awesome because we serve and worship an awesome God!

     This place resonates with positivity, generosity, and kindness. Case in point. Someone, whose parents don’t live close-by, sent me this text around lunchtime on Sunday:

Hey! My parents watched Covenant online this morning…my mom

and I were just texting and she wrote…

“BTW – I kept yelling at Richard that name of the song was ‘There

is a balm in Gilead’ but he just refused to acknowledge me.

{Smiley face emoji}”

Your online audience knew the answer!

We are an awesome church with an awesomely extended church family who love and worship an awesome Savior. Could I overuse the already ubiquitous word, awesome? I think not!

     As we all know, we live in a sometimes crazy, mixed-up world. Faith in Jesus Christ doesn’t offer an escape. Better than that, following Jesus helps us to be part of the solution, not the problem. That’s why Galatians 5 is so important to us. Let sinful, broken people do what sinful, broken people do. We are different. We are going to hold on to and reflect love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, wherever and whenever those things appear in short supply.

     And now, your Thought of the Week:

“Why on earth would you say ‘half a dozen’ when you can literally

say ‘six’?”

     With Much Love and Affection,

                   Richard