Being Loving

People talk about love and loving others all the time. Usually people who aren’t even Christians talk about how God is love and how it’s all about love and that love is the most important thing. Whenever I hear such things I can’t help but wonder, what is the end game? To me, when someone … Continue reading

Whatever You Do, Do it Right

1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. The Lord meets everyone in the place where we are always found; in our hopes and dreams. Unfortunately, this is the same exact place Satan meets us as well. In this place lays our battlefield. … Continue reading

Dreamcatcher

Genesis 22 1-2,8,10-12,15-17 22 Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 2 He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering … Continue reading

So It Begins Here

Romans 8:31-32 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? When we first come in contact with the … Continue reading

The Defense Rests

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Everyone knows this verse but we don’t admit to our intent when we quote it.  Since I’m the only person I know well who sins I will tell you the reason I quote it.  When I have fallen into sin, I … Continue reading

What do you see: Ephesians 2:10

Ephesians 2:10  8 For (Q)by grace you have been saved (R)through faith. And this is (S)not your own doing; (T)it is the gift of God, 9 (U)not a result of works, (V)so that no one may boast. 10 For (A)we are his workmanship, (B)created in Christ Jesus (C)for good works, (D)which God prepared beforehand, (E)that we should walk in them. For though we are not saved for our good works, yet … Continue reading

Nine Ways the Gospel Transforms Marriage

By Jonathan Parnell | Aug 25, 2012 04:00 am Jesus Christ, the Son of God, suffered on the cross in our place and was raised triumphantly from the dead. He ascended to the Father’s right hand and is now enthroned, sending his Spirit who by the Word gathers for himself a new people from every … Continue reading

Sin

Ask 10 people what sin is and you’ll likely get 10 different responses. On top of that, they probably won’t be based on the Bible. That’s a problem, since “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23), we should know what this disease that lives in each of us is. Pastor … Continue reading

What do you see? Romans 8:5-8

Romans 8:5 For (K)those who live according to the flesh set their minds on (L)the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on (M)the things of the Spirit. 6 For to set (N)the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For the mind that … Continue reading

Got Faith? Where Is It? Part IV

Romans 5:8-11 English Standard Version (ESV) 8 but (A)God shows his love for us in that (B)while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since, therefore, (C)we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from (D)the wrath of God. 10 For if (E)while we were enemies (F)we were reconciled to God by the death of his … Continue reading