Cynthia Drury Saturday, Oct. 31, Fellowship at The Ranch (FATR) hosted a Halloween Drive Up Trick or Treat event. The 60+ degree weather was perfect for the treat bag distribution. At 10 a.m. the RR residents, children, friends, and dogs began to drive up in their golf carts, cars, and even a bicycle. They were…
Ed Jones, Pastor The celebration of Christmas started in Rome about 336 (but it did not become a major Christian festival until the 9th century). Many Christmas traditions, such as decorating trees, started in Germany and later spread to other parts of the world, notably England and the United States. The English term Christmas (“mass…
Ed Jones, Pastor In November 1621, after the Pilgrims’ first corn harvest proved successful due to the guidance and teaching of Squanto, a Patuxet Indian, Governor William Bradford organized a celebration and feast. He invited a group of the colony’s Native American allies, including the Wampanoag chief Massasoit. Now remembered as America’s first Thanksgiving—although the…
Cynthia Drury Leave all your tricks at home and join us for a treat. Fellowship At The Ranch (FATR) Church is hosting a Drive Thru Halloween Trick or Treat candy distribution at the Robson Ranch Clubhouse parking lot on Saturday, Oct. 31, 10 to 11:30 a.m. Come in your golf cart, car, bicycle, or motorcycle…
Ed Jones, Pastor Above prayer, one of our duties as a Christian citizen is to vote. Proverbs 25:19 says that “Putting confidence (or voting for) in an unreliable man is like chewing with a sore tooth, or trying to run on a broken foot.” God wills us to put our trust in people of character.…
Ed Jones, Pastor (Adam) said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman (ishah), Because she was taken out of Man (ish).” For this reason, a man (ish) shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife (ishah); and they shall become…
Ed Jones You’ve visited twenty different churches but none seem to fit. Some Sundays, you’re excited to get up. Other times, you’d rather pledge membership to Bedside Baptist and call it a day. A desire for faith community is growing by the day and YouTube sermons are starting to feel supplementary at best. You want…
Pastor Ed Jones Why was God so willing to reveal Himself in Bible times but seems hidden and silent today? One reason God may seem hidden today is the simple fact of willful, unrepentant sin. “Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time, He will hide…
Pastor Ed Jones How many remember Mad magazine’s poster boy, Alfred E. Neuman and his iconic motto, “What, me worry?” Well, with all the worry of late, I decided to take a look at what scripture says about it. The Bible clearly teaches that Christians are not to worry. In Philippians 4:6, we are commanded, “Do…
The Lord gave me a love for linguistics. I often spend quite a bit of time determining the root and meaning of Biblical words and phrases. That love compelled me to look at the word April! Being confident about the origin of a word that’s been around since before 700 B.C. is not all that…