July Twenty-Ninth
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Category: Blog
A collaborative blog of various teachers in the church.
Hatred and Its Many, Many Sides
God hates racism, and He hates all those who worship at the alter of the Neo-Naziism and White-Supremacy. There are two sorts of people that will agree with this statement, and two that would disagree. Those who might disagree would be those who either believe that God loves all people no matter who they are …
Civil War
During the days of the Civil War historians tell us that approximately 150,000 people repented and believed in the name of Jesus Christ. A great and wonderful revival swept through the camps of both the North and the South and it was even reported that the Tennessee barracks had a 1,000 seat tent erected for …
Biology Doesn’t Determine Sex
Preface: I can’t imagine that this post will have any lasting impact on things transpiring in our world, but being compelled to say something, I use my tiny platform with great caution. What follows is a polemical treatise in hopes that harsh and rational words might wake someone up to the utter foolishness taking place. …
Christmas Sunday
So I read an article just a few moments ago outlining several reasons why church’s should still hold services the 25th of December this year. Christmas falls on a Sunday as it does every blue moon. (Not the astronomical event, the colloquial expression for “not that often”.) The plea of the article struck me and …
Pigs & Dogs
“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. Matthew 7:7 – July 26th, 2016 There is real danger in the spread of the gospel and our gracious and understanding God knows it. The verse that lies before us …
THROUGH FAITH
Salvation is a monergistic work of God. Meaning that the work of a person’s salvation is not a work of cooperation between man and God, but instead it is purely a word of God alone. The Father bestows grace upon a sinner and that sinner is then granted the faith to believe. It is then …
SOVEREIGN GRACE
In Christian culture ambiguity is on the rise. It’s our desire to be as forth-right as possible. We believe that God grants Salvation alone by His Sovereign Grace alone through His Sovereign gift of Faith alone which He grants to all those who believe. We therefore reject the notion that God’s grace is enacted by …
SCRIPTURE ALONE
We believe that the Bible is God’s special revelation that is without error in doctrine and detail in it’s original manuscripts. To use the terminology of the day we believe in the absolute inerrancy of the Scriptures as they existed in their original form. Those copies we have today, we recognize as being more than …
Oh, This Present Evil Age!
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. This present evil age! God has planned to deliver …
Controlled by Guns
You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath… Exodus 20:4 I made a comment this morning during my sermon on the concept of gun control and my firm belief that we ought to protect our homes and …
Assigned Faith
“…each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.” (Romans 12:3 ESV) Paul boldly says that, varied individuals have been assigned, by our sovereign God, levels of faith in this verse. Paul makes a case for why each Christian must not elevate himself/herself due largely to this fact. Paul would also say in 1 Corinthians 4:7 “For who sees anything …
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. (1 Corinthians 13:11) The Bible teaches that there are two stages in life; childhood and adulthood. The notion of adolescence is a contemporary cultural creation. …
Follow Christ
To what lengths would you follow Christ? That’s Christianity’s question. In order to become a Christian to begin with this question is asked of you. Will you follow Christ more than your own desire? While you follow Christ into self-denial and serve no longer yourself but Him alone? Truly the concepts of both repentance and …
I Want You
“What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel…” (James 4:1-2) Let’s just say it! Sin sucks. Sin removes us from fellowship with God. …
Ambassadors of Christ
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. –– 2 Corinthians 5:20-21 If you were to …
Hating Sin…
Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. — 1 John 3:8 Sin is deadly. Sin is that which the Lord hates and sin is that which Christ suffered and died …
Meeting the Uncertainties of the World with Faith
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. – Hebrews 11:1-2 Faith is the equivalent to a word that we use quite often—trust. You and I actively trust more than you probably take note of. We trust our food suppliers …
Be Still…
Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted above the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. – Psalm 46:10 There is a great danger in every society, the danger that even a lost man Socrates understood. The danger is in striving too much. Whether that be striving for the sake …
Preparing to Fail
A Conversation in Sin: “When I’m in the middle of a battle over my sin, how do I overcome it?” The answer is that you can’t. The only way that anyone overcomes sin is through the work of Christ in them. “Alright, but how does that work?” Well, you have to trust Christ that He’ll carry …
Happy Holidays
When Christmas rolls around every year it seems like the same battles are fought over and over again. Happy Holidays vs Merry Christmas. And it seems like every year I see that bumper sticker on the back of peoples cars of a little nativity scene that says , “Put Christ Back into Christmas”. Expressing that …
Birth?
Monergism; Synergism; These are words that have great implications for the Christian and yet many Christians wouldn’t have the slightest clue as to what they mean. The difference between these words is, life eternal with Christ, and an eternity spent in the pits of hell. So critical are these terms and their meanings that without …
Always Ascending
Our flesh, also understood as our human nature, is constantly seeking to drag us down into the muck and more of sin. The pit of depravity is our nature’s natural habitat and feels most at home when we’re dwelling in darkness. Often times there is a familiarity with the shadows that, though we may despise …
Preach, Die, Be Forgotten
Count Nicolas Ludwig Von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf was known for the great Moravian missionaries that were birthed from his town of Hurrnhut Germany. The Moravians were known the world around for their incredible devotion to God and to the Gospel. The Moravians and Count Zinzendorf, as he is most commonly known, were devoted to the …
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Now I lay me down to sleep, for the lost my heart should weep. If he should die before I wake, I know the Lord, his soul, won’t take. And yet we slumber in our bed, unconcerned for man’s painful end. Knowing the gospel for ourselves, yet keeping faith upon our shelves. We enjoy His …
Prayer Without Hope
As Christians we too often overlook the call on our lives to pray earnestly. James 5:16 says; “Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.” That verse highlights the incredible power in prayer that …