So many things we do in life aren’t necessarily hard, they just require we hang in there until we finish. My first job out of college, the man who hired me told me that even though my degree was psychology and not business, it showed that I was willing to work and complete something. In Seminary , it…

Weakness means we don’t have what it takes. It means we are neither sovereign nor omniscient, nor invincible. We are not in control, we don’t know everything, and we can be stopped. Weakness means that we desperately need God. And the plea for my own soul, and for yours, is that we would embrace weakness, not despise it.

Introduction Perfect timing. We use this phrase often. If I walk into the house just as Jess was about to text me, perfect timing. If someone brings us something right as we were about to ask for it, perfect timing. The other day I saw a video of acrobats on a trapeze. As I watched them fly across empty…

The aspects of salvation. The necessity for salvation. The benefits of salvation. The provision of salvation. We have learned that sinners are utterly lost, and that there is absolutely nothing they can do to fix their problem, nor to they want to fix their problem. We have also learned that a just and…

The Heart of God What’s our view of God? Do we misunderstand his nature? 18 And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.” Authoritarian God Distant God Critical God. 22 After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have…

Assurance Pray Read 1 After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them, 3 and because he was of the same trade he…

What's the Christian solution to racism? Find out why this matters in this week's lesson from Mark Moore's Core 52.

May Long Weekend 2019

In his sovereign wisdom, the Lord allows crises to test our faith so that we might know him more fully and come to trust in his strength and not in ours.