By Jason SchifoPastor at Community Evangelical Free Church of Mahometjschifo.cfcmahomet@gmail.com This weekend is “Resurrection Sunday”! Resurrection is a big deal because it is more than just an event that happened in history. It’s a power we live in and out of every day. The same resurrection power that brought Jesus […]
Community Evangelical Free Church of Mahomet Pastor Jason Schifo explores how to make God BIG during the Christmas season.
Welcome back! What a visit that we had last week to Mount Carmel, and the events of that great story between the prophet Elijah and the prophets of Ba’al. Now we are back on the bus and headed north to our hotel on the Sea of Galilee, but first, we […]
Welcome back, fellow travelers! An hour or so ago we, loaded back onto the bus after a long walk along the Mediterranean Sea and the ruins of Caesarea Maritima. We are now headed 40 minutes north, to the top of Mount Carmel, the Monastery there, and the monastery’s beautiful gardens […]
By Jason Schifo Pastor at Community Evangelical Free Church A woman was traveling in the mountains and found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she happened to meet another traveler who was hungry, and the woman opened her bag to share the food she had with her. […]
Welcome back, fellow travelers! So after viewing the Pilate stone from last week, we watched an amazing film regarding the construction of Caesarea Maratima, and at this point, we walked into one of the highlights of ruins of this the port city: an immense and well preserved Roman amphitheatre. What […]
By Jason Schifo Pastor at Community Evangelical Free Church of Mahomet And we are off… After much anticipation and a 2-hour flight from Chicago, O’Hare to Newark, New Jersey and then an 11-hour flight to Tel Aviv, we have arrived together in Israel at Ben-Gurion Airport. The beauty of traveling […]
By Jason Schifo Pastor at Community Evangelical Free Church of Mahomet Have you ever gone to the store in search of a particular thing and run into or across something unexpected along the way that wasn’t on your list? Maybe it’s just me, but that happens all the time. It […]
We’ve all heard the oxymorons, right? You know, a figure of speech that uses contradictory terms that both make sense, no sense, or nonsense all at the same time. Terms like “active retirement”, “adult children”, “jumbo shrimp”, “fresh frozen”, “authentic replica”, “pretty ugly”, or “a minor catastrophe”. A personal example […]
This year I will be celebrating my 46th birthday. As 46 draws near and mid-life looms, I have begun finding myself looking in the rearview mirror more than I had in the past. I find myself apppreciating the people and their impact on my life. When I think about these […]
