Help for the Hurting

Do you feel like you're hurting? Whether you are suffering physically, mentally, or spiritually, there is help. In this amazing passage from Luke 13 a woman who had suffered for 18 years finds immediate relief. Check out Joe's sermon from the Scotch Ridge pulpit:

The Race Course God Has Set before You

Have you ever felt like your life is marathon and you have just reached the 20-mile mark and "hit the wall"? God has laid out a course for each of us. Usually it is long and challenging. Today's message from Hebrews 12 provides essential principles to finishing this race of life and running it well.


Welcome to the Scotch Ridge Presbyterian Church's (Martins Ferry, Ohio) Blog Site. Here you will find weekly videos of our time of praise and Pastor Joe C. Ellis's sermons. Please join us on Sunday mornings at 9:30 A.M. for our worship service and children's church. Click on the "Follow Blog" button on the blue bar at the top and and become a part of our online community of faith!

Directions to church: Take Ohio 7 north through Martins Ferry. Turn left onto CR4. Go 1/2 mile. Turn right onto Nixon's run. Go two miles to the top of the hill. Turn left onto Treadway Road. Go 150 yards and make a right up the church's steep driveway to the top of the hill.

If Tomorrow Never Comes

Why do we major in the minors. We become obsessed with things that are'nt important and neglect things that are. Maybe we should live our lives as as if tomorrow may never come. Perhaps then we'll get our priorities straight. Here's Joe's message from Luke 12:13-21.

Enjoy this original song from local Christian song writer, Jeremy Lewis, called Easier.

Trampling Snakes

Are you facing a life decision or obstacle that scares you? Paul's words to the Colossians offers insight into facing the difficult future in the power and confidence of the Spirit. Here's Joe's message for this Sunday from the Scotch Ridge pulpit.

Here is Hillsong's Darlene Zschech singing Power of Your Love:

That One Thing

What is that one thing in life that is missing? What is that one thing that brings fulfillment, satisfaction, and wholeness. What is the one thing that causes a household to be blessed? Today's message from the Scotch Ridge pulpit offers the answer.

Here is Darlene Zschech singing Shout to the Lord

Welcome to the Scotch Ridge Presbyterian Church's (Martins Ferry, Ohio) Blog Site. Here you will find weekly videos of our time of praise and Pastor Joe C. Ellis's sermons. Please join us on Sunday mornings at 9:30 A.M. for our worship service and children's church. Click on the "Follow Blog" button on the blue bar at the top and and become a part of our online community of faith!

Directions to church: Take Ohio 7 north through Martins Ferry. Turn left onto CR4. Go 1/2 mile. Turn right onto Nixon's run. Go two miles to the top of the hill. Turn left onto Treadway Road. Go 150 yards and make a right up the church's steep driveway to the top of the hill.

Entering the Promised Land

Moses had some important things to say to the Israelites before they entered the Promised Land. It all came down to choices they would make. Those decisions would bring blessing and prosperity or destruction and death. God calls us to enter into the Promised Land where we can experience abundant living in Christ. But we face the same choices. Here's today's message from the Scotch Ridge pulpit--Scripture text: Deutoronomy 30:11-20:

Here's the Newsboys singing "I'm Free!"

Freedom Fighters

It will be a bad day for hell and a good day for the church when believers exercise the spiritual authority bestowed upon them by the Lord. Then those bounded by chains of addiction, brokeness, and failure will delivered, lifted up, and set free. Today's message comes from Luke 10:1-20.

On this day of celebrating Independence Day, here's Lee Greenwood singing "Proud to Be an American."