The Village Church | Pastor Eric | Activity https://www.villagersonline.com/villagers/admin/activity/ Activity feed for Pastor Eric. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:37:01 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 c7568d92e0dd9fae7ae6b0771ccf11d5 Pastor Eric wrote a new post https://www.villagersonline.com/?p=9798 Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:02:18 +0000 Iceberg

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]]> a3776742370a0f706cefce8c748f6199 Pastor Eric wrote a new post https://www.villagersonline.com/?p=8940 Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:49:14 +0000 Reinventing the Wheel Twenty-two years ago, alongsideContinue Reading

]]> b2b21e70c50ebdfe2bce297dbd33a316 Pastor Eric wrote a new post https://www.villagersonline.com/?p=7849 Mon, 06 Nov 2023 22:35:52 +0000 The Sorrowful Path: Embracing Grief in the Shadow of DragonsThe Sorrowful Path: Embracing Grief in the Shadow of Dragons It is evident that our world is beset with perils and evil, akin to the dragons and serpents that serve as potent symbols of death and devastation in the Old Testament. In contemplating the conflicts and chaos that plague our globe, it becomes a sorrowful exercise to acknowledge that such strife seldom spares the innocent and often consumes the lives of the young and defenseless. Nonetheless, it is also true that, were we to cast our minds back a century and a half, our awareness of global sorrow and strife would be far less immediate. The intricate details of tensions and conflicts in lands distant, such as those between Hamas and Israel or Ukraine and Russia, would not be as readily at our fingertips. News would travel slowly, and our concerns would be more local, more intimately tied to the lives of our immediate neighbors and their individual challenges and quirks, rather than the broader strokes painted by the actions of national leaders. In reflecting upon the current state of our interconnected world, it occurs to me that we may be attempting to reconstruct the Tower of Babel in a metaphorical sense. The advent of continuous media coverage and the expansive reach of the internet have woven our lives into a tapestry of global immediacy. The trivialities of celebrities’ lives are as accessible to us as the air we breathe, yet we often remain uninformed about which shampoo we use daily. The bizarreness of legislators is at our fingertips, but the stories of those in our immediate vicinity, like the man who seeks food on the street corner, remain veiled in obscurity. This thought leads me to consider our collective ensnarement within a virtual matrix, raising the question of whether extrication is possible. While some may suggest that the solution lies in the Christian faith, a discourse emerges on the authenticity of the representations of Jesus within the socio-political arena. The Jesus presented by various political and cultural factions, which seems to wield religion as a means of asserting dominance and moral high ground, appears to diverge significantly from the essence of His life, death, resurrection, and his teachings. The challenge, then, is to discern the authentic message of Jesus amidst the cacophony of our politically and socially charged interpretations. Building on this notion, I believe the path out of the ‘matrix’ may indeed lie in embracing sorrow. This thought is encapsulated in the briefest of verses from the New Testament: “Jesus wept” (John 11:35). Facing the news of the death of his friend Lazarus, Jesus showed us that before action, there is a time for grief. As someone who strives to emulate the way of Jesus, I find myself too often rushing to action—eager to solve, persuade, donate, shelter, or declare. Yet, I’m reminded that the first step towards healing may simply be to share in the sorrow of those who suffer, to weep alongside them, acknowledging their pain. It’s in this shared humanity, this collective mourning, where perhaps we begin to find our way out of the shadows cast by the proverbial dragons and serpents that surround uContinue Reading

]]> 00a7dd1ca748fd211420b235143c93a6 Pastor Eric wrote a new post https://www.villagersonline.com/?p=7778 Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:31:10 +0000 Faith and Community Faith & Community: Mars Hill andContinue Reading

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]]> 1db17a7f752fd93ac6db9ee86fe5b28d Pastor Eric wrote a new post https://www.villagersonline.com/?p=7708 Thu, 14 Sep 2023 21:58:12 +0000 The Tables[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Tables by Eric CepinIntroduction: From theContinue Reading

]]> 10764ed6d4e001d345181e112171ca04 Pastor Eric wrote a new post https://www.villagersonline.com/?p=7341 Thu, 18 May 2023 17:32:38 +0000 A Meditation on Philippians 4:1-9Philippians 4:1-9Therefore, my brothers andContinue Reading

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Peace

Colleen and Corey Gilchrist
May 8, 2022

Colleen: Prayed a blessing over all the mothers: Thank you, God for all mothers.
I have nothing to offer of peace of my own; Jesus, we […]

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Peace

Eric Cepin
May 8, 2022

Indulge me for a second and think about how you might have the Fruit of the Spirit in your life.

Rom 10:9-10 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus i […]

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Grief and Gratitude
3-5-22
Rod Hugen
In high school bible class, I was invited to pick out a life verse. I had difficulty memorizing things, so I […]

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Mark 9:1-8

Encounters with Jesus series (#1)
1-2-22
Rod Hugen

A friend of his who is a prayer warrior named Harriet contracted COVID and passed away. Her ongoing wish was that Rod […]

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The Gospel Story #1 Story
Eric & SueJuly 4, 2021
Rom 6:23What is eternal life? The beauty about God is that he is earthy. He created us to have feelings, smell, […]

]]> efd70f68413a976df800e8a6641c7bb8 Pastor Eric wrote a new post https://www.villagersonline.com/?p=5223 Thu, 12 Mar 2020 21:15:02 +0000 Dear Villagers and Friends,

We met as elders and discussed our response to the Coronavirus and we are encouraging the following. Before that, you need to see Burzynski Elder Law – guardianship lawyer naples fl […]

]]> 8983c11c6ac20a8da5db3999d8d3a75e Pastor Eric wrote a new post https://www.villagersonline.com/?p=4399 Mon, 03 Jun 2019 15:09:15 +0000 May 24, 2019

To my fellow Villagers, the faithful in Christ Jesus, whose security and significance come from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

I pray that out of God’s great riches you might be s […]

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The Nazis killed 11 million non-combatants in World War II. Yet after the war, the US and its allies gave spiritual comfort to the men r…[Read more]

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