dec-- Durham Evangelical Church

We attended Durham Evangelical Church on Sunday with our son and daughter in law. dec as they refer to it is a thriving church that has an important ministry to the area.

We attended the second of three services. On a holiday weekend they had to put out extra seats in the foyer. I am guessing there were two hundred and fifty or more people in attendance.

I apologize for the poor quality of the image. The worship is filled with praise music led by a strong praise team with a strong driving rock beat. I learned later that this team gathers at the church at 6 AM on Sundays and leads worship for all three services. I found it to be very meaningful time of praise and prayer.

Pastor Terry Sharbaugh preached from Luke 10 on the time when Jesus visited in the home of Mary and Martha. The message was very clear, Martha was busy doing good things but it was not the most important thing. Mary was doing the most important thing and that was spending time with Jesus. He said it is a powerful metaphor for American culture. We are all very busy and most of the time it is doing good things, but we often don't focus on the most important thing, spending time with Jesus.

The majority of the people there that morning were young families. Scott and Erica had nursery duty that morning so I had a chance to stop by the nursery.

It was a great time of worship for me personally. I was also impressed with the church and its ministry. Next week they will be having their eleventh annual pig roast. They have invited the whole neighborhood to join it.

I rejoiced with those who said to me, "let us go to the house of the Lord."

Psalm 122: 1

Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his;

We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 100: 3