Each week our pastors study diligently to deliver practical, thought-provoking messages from the Word of God.
God is going to deliver the righteous, and He is going to punish the unjust. He judged wicked people in the Old Testament, and it is consistent with His character that He would judge the ungodly in the present. However, just as God delivered the righteous in the Old Testament, when trials come in the lives of the righteous, it is consistent with His character the He would deliver them.
Read MoreThrough history, God has chosen to bring about good in the world by His Spirit working through people. God wants to use you to accomplish good in the world. Are you a vessel God can use to bring about deliverance?
Read MoreThe story of Christianity can be summed up in the fact that God loves us. Throughout Israel’s history, it’s abundantly clear that God was there working in the lives of His people. Likewise, all of us, as God’s children, will experience God’s love working in our lives for good. We simply have to trust Him and His plan. We are safe in God’s love.
Read MoreThere are not just threats outside the church; there are threats within the church. We need to be on guard. In the New Testament church, false teachers had arisen from within the church; the threat remains for us today. We need to be sure that, as a church, we are preaching the whole counsel of God.
Read MoreLife is full of frustrations, difficulties, pain, and hurt. When we find ourselves in the midst of pain and difficulty, when our souls are bitter, we have two options: we can lash out at those around us, or we can take our bitterness of soul to an all-powerful, loving God Who hears.
Read MorePeter is at the end of his life and this is the final letter he writes to strengthen the brethren as Christ had instructed him to do. This is his final, parting advice to all believers. In this increasingly dark world, he exhorts us to remember the Word of God we have been taught. In a world full of things that can't be trusted, it is trustworthy and can be a guide to our lives.
Read MoreAre you authentic? We often think of authenticity being on the inside, but authentic Christians are externally verifiable. One is not a Christian just because he says so. Anyone can call anything gold, but a simple test will determine whether or not it really is. If one is a real Christian, he will have a spiritual pulse. This is not a question of merit. It is a question of authenticity.
Read MoreGod’s Spirit, power, and Truth are what this world needs. God’s Spirit and Truth are the solution to all of life’s problems, not systems and methodologies. His Spirit is the answer. It’s the answer for your brokenness. It’s the answer for your weakness. It’s the answer for your bitterness. It’s the answer for our church. It’s the answer for your family. It’s the answer for our mountain of challenges. Let us never underestimate the power of the Spirit in our lives, and let us never fail to ask for this power.
Read MoreLove has to have the right impetus and source: Truth. In Thyatira they loved people, but their doctrine was falling apart. This was unsustainable because they had no basis for the love they were demonstrating. Thyatira is alive and well today. If we are going to love people as Christ did, our love must find its source in Truth; otherwise, our love has no foundation.
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