Just this past week something caught my attention in the news. You may have seen it yourself and read about it. An act of forgiveness was seen. Can you imagine forgiving the person who killed your own brother? Well, that's exactly what happened in a Dallas courtroom this past Wednesday. Police officer…

Purity: Fleeing Youthful Lusts The world is obsessed with cleanness. Everywhere you look you see people with different hand cleaners and antibacterial soaps and lotions. People want cleanness outwardly, but purity in heart? That is not the case. Everything that we see in this world is saturated with…

Prayer 16 Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness. 17 I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work. 18 I said in my heart…

Good morning! we are in our series on The Generous life .. Over the past few week we have been looking at God’s blessing towards us.. These are inflows of God’s Generosity —Generosity always begins with God and his goodness towards us... J ames 1:17 Every good and perfect comes to us from the Father…

Living Under Grace 14 Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace. What does it mean to live by Grace? What are the benefits of Grace? What are the misunderstandings? What is the meaning of Grace? Grace is…

Prayer As we continue this week making our way through the 1st chapter of the gospel of John, …we come today to - basically - the second part to last week’s sermon... Last week we looked at John the Baptist being sent BY GOD to water baptize... with the purpose of REVEALING Jesus to Israel... And what…

What is the Image of God?

With God in your life there should be no fear. Be still....and Know!!

Failures Why is failure an area of life so hard for us to fight through? How do you get back up after falling down in your spiritual commitments? Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended. Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee,…

Maybe we cannot understand what they are going through, but we can still pray for them and we can learn from them. They can teach us. The question is what can you learn from those who are being persecuted for their faith? How can we apply what they know and experience from their culture to ours which is vastly different? Fortunately there is something that we still do have in common with them. It is our faith in Jesus and the Word of God. Today I am going to share five things I think we can learn from Martyrs.

God is Able 16 Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give you an answer concerning this matter. 17 “If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. 18 “But even…

Listen to Brad Reid's testimony this week as he recounts trying to fit all kinds of other stuff into the God-shaped hole in his life. Straker says most of Brad's problems are great! At the conclusion, it is apparent why Jesus is the only answer.

The Call, The Vision, The Mission The church’s vision is what the church will look like in the next five to ten years of its life as it accomplishes the mission. A Vision Statement, is not a statement describing what a certain ministry is now, but rather a Vision Statement asserts what those in the ministry…

Today is sermon 2 from our Believe series - after this we’ll have 28 more to go! The topic this week is God is personal . Of the 4,200 religions in the world, the Judeo-Christian faith is largely unique in the fact that God reveals Himself, God is knowable, He’s near, He’s active in our lives and He…

Francis Foulkes: “The duties of the pastor (literally ‘shepherd’) are to feed the flock with spiritual food and to see that they are protected from spiritual danger.” When I became the pastor of our church (1, 664 days ago), one of the most important goals in my life was to prayerfully identify God’s…

The gospel needs to be believed!

Love Your Neighbor - Part 3 14 For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Confession of Faith I am not moved by what I see or by what I feel. I am moved by what I believe. I believe the WORD of God! The victory is mine! I have it now! I can see it through…