Covenant Harrow Blog

         Across the Christian landscape, churches continue to wrestle with how best to teach, guide, and shepherd their people in a world that is reportedly  changing faster  ( Note 1 ) than any generation before us. As I’ve been reading Laudato Si’, reviewing Assemblies of God Position Papers, and remembering the teaching rhythms of my LDS childhood, I’ve been struck by how each tradition carries its own way of offering wisdom — and how these differences reveal something important about the nature of teaching in the Church today. Of David. A psalm. The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; [ Psalm 24:1 NIV Blue Letter Bible.Org  (BLB)] 1. The Catholic Tradition: A Single Global Pastor Speaking to the World      In the Catholic Church, an encyclical is more than a document. It is a pastoral letter from one global shepherd to the entire Church — and often to “all people of good will.” It carrie...

                            Originally shared March 15, 2026, at the Dove Creek Assembly of God campus. 🕊 Introduction: Why This Study Matters     Over the past twenty weeks, our church community gathered to explore The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions by Ron Rhodes — a study facilitated by Sister Kelli Sybrowsky and enriched by Scripture, guided discussion, curated video content, and pastoral reflection.  This journey was not about sensationalism.  It was about discernment. We asked hard questions: What makes a belief system Christian — or not? How do cults redefine Christian terms and distort essential doctrines? What sociological patterns make these groups so compelling — and so dangerous?     And we held fast to two biblical anchors: clarity and compassion.  Clarity, because the gospel is not vague.  Compassion, because those drawn into dist...

  Revision Update: 10/19/2025 Originally published:  Sunday, September 28, 2025.  This message is being refined in stages. Final version forthcoming. Sermon Thesis: God’s setting apart of His people . Intro:   In a culture that celebrates masks and momentary thrills, Hallowax (Halloween) invites us to consider what it means to be formed—not just disguised.  As wax responds to heat, so too are we shaped by the refining fire of holiness.  Like the moon in its phases, we are called to wax toward fullness—toward holiness—even as the world around us wanes in truth, identity, and sacred purpose.  This prologue sets the stage for a sermon journey where sanctification is not seasonal, but eternal.  Through symbolism, Scripture, and spiritual reflection, Rev. Nicholas Sybrowsky explores how we might wax toward holiness in a world that seems to be waning in truth, identity, and sacred purpose.  How might we reflect divine light in a darkening age? ...

  Cinematic Sermon includes all five Homilies Service Invocation:       God Almighty, you are our Higher Power.  Grant us serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can and wisdom to know the difference.  Strength to live one moment at a time, to enjoy one moment at a time and to accept hardship as the pathway to peace.  Taking this sinful world as Jesus did not as I would have it.  Trusting that He will make all things right as I surrender my will to Him, that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him in the next life, eternal life.  Amen. Opening Word & Reading for Worship:      On November 29, 2012, my life pivoted.  That night, I drank my last alcoholic beverage.  I was not just attending an outreach event—I was leading one, representing others while silently fighting my own battle.  Our team hosted a Denim & Diamonds fundraiser in su...