Pastor's Corner
January 2025
What’s New for the New Year?
2 Cor. 5:17
22) “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
As children of Christ, we should come to the realization that we are a new creation in Him.
We must let go of the old life and begin to live in the new life that we are promised in Christ.
I know it is sometimes hard to determine the way we should go. In Isaiah 43:18-19 he says this “Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.” In other words, let your past be the past and live for the future. Then Isaiah would add “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” What Isaiah is saying is the same thing Paul was saying, that the saved are new creatures, old things are passed away and every day is a new day that “we will rejoice and be glad in it” Ps. 118:24.
What’s new for the New Year? You and I, in Christ, rejoicing
Yours in Christ,
Pastor Jeff
Our Pastor, Jeff Massey
Reverend Jeff Massey was licensed to preach at Cole's Cove Independent Missionary Baptist Church in Weaverville, NC on July 1, 2001. He preached for local pastors and helped in revivals. He also interim pastored for churches without pastors in Madison and Buncombe counties. He also conducted outside services at Lake Louise every Saturday evening for two summers. Rev Massey participated in radio broadcasts at Marshall's WHBK radio with other preachers from Cole's Cove Baptist Church.
On March 5, 2006, Reverend Massey was called to Stoney Fork Independent Missionary Baptist Church in Candler, NC, where he preached for two months. He was ordained on May 7, 2006 at Cole's Cove Independent Missionary Baptist Church and became the pastor of Stoney Fork Independent Missionary Baptist Church, where he is at the present time.
