What Is Advent?
Beginning Sunday and continuing into the next four weeks, Christians across the world celebrate the season referred to as Advent....
Keep ReadingLet’s encourage one another, and especially our visitors, by initiating a greeting and by listening well. ...
Luke's Gospel provides insight into a truly Christian approach to gratitude. ...
In Christ’s death, we die to our old identity. We are no longer slaves to sin. We are free from any obligation, addiction, and necessity to sin because sin has no reign on us....
Instead of abandoning us to eternal death and destruction, God, in His mercy and grace, devised a rescue plan for humanity. At precisely the right time, God the Father sent His Son, Jesus, to die for the ungodly....
The persecutions, losses, physical pains, and tragedies we face, help us to spiritually grow so we can better serve God and provide an empathetic sense of direction for others as we follow the path God has set before us....
This resurrection week, look not to fleeting joys but to be joined to the one who fully satisfies, whose perfect kingdom will have no end and be full of immeasurable riches of grace. ...
Neither Jews under the Law of God, nor Gentiles, who see the good character of God in creation, have succeeded in obtaining righteousness because all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (3:23)....
The PDF Discussion Guide for the Marriage Seminar is available in this post. ...
Our Creator does not uncover our wickedness to cruelly shame us, but to give us the truth--there is no hope that we can ever redeem ourselves....
God’s desire for us is to live full lives, for our hearts and our minds to be so saturated by God’s word, that by the power of the Holy Spirit we may love God fully....
Beginning Sunday and continuing into the next four weeks, Christians across the world celebrate the season referred to as Advent....
Keep ReadingJames’s short but incisive letter teaches what it means to walk in the way of wisdom that issues forth in authentic Christianity. ...
Keep ReadingIgnoring sin makes us less conscious of it, and when we become less conscious of sin, we become less conscious of grace. ...
Keep ReadingThe elders believe it is not only permissible but also desirable for both men and women to participate in the public prayers and Scripture reading in our corporate worship services....
Keep ReadingTruly there is no other way to be justified before God outside of Christ’s righteousness imputed upon us through faith....
Keep ReadingOpen membership advocates make strong, credible arguments for their views. These arguments deserve careful and charitable engagement, even as they may prove to be unconvincing in the final analysis. ...
Keep ReadingWe are dependent on God’s undeserved favor to us and the peace that only Christ brings to us in this troubled world....
Keep ReadingBecause Jesus was faithful to the end, we can look to him and be confident that he is interceding for us now as we strive to walk in his example....
Keep ReadingSalvation came at a cost. Remembering the story of Abraham and Isaac reminds us of that cost. We see that “God was willing to sacrifice for you what was most precious to Him.”...
Keep ReadingIn pointing out Jesus’ deity Paul sets us up to place our full hope in Christ for reconciliation. For it will be through this God-man that all things in heaven and earth will one day be reconciled as a result of Christ’s finished work on the cross....
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