GOD’S FAVOR What does your heart long for? Is your main dream a happier family, a better home, a new job, a healing touch? Or is it the hope of God’s glory, which transforms all life? There is nothing wrong with seeking God’s favor for possessions, positions, acquisitions, and ailments. Yet there is more to […]
HEAVEN “And I saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; and I heard a great voice from the throne saying . . . ‘Behold, I make all things new’” (Revelation 21:2-5). Everything is gone that ever made Jerusalem, like all cities, […]
ASKING THE WRONG QUESTIONS Why is terror gripping the world? What happened in Nice, Turkey, and Baton Rouge? Has God lifted His hand of protection on certain countries, ours included? Pastor Max in his sermon last Sunday proclaimed that these are the wrong questions. “Things happen in life. Are you ready for whatever happens? Are […]
ARE YOU A TELESCOPE FOR GOD? Pastor Max delivered a sermon on telescopes last Sunday. “A telescope brings that which is far away close. We are to be telescopes for God, to bring Jesus closer to those who only see Him from afar.” Who are those who only see Jesus from afar? They are your […]
VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL Pastor Max preached several weeks on Ecclesiastes. Last Sunday he concluded the series with an illustration that locked in the message he was trying to get across. There is a vertical line that reaches upward and represents your relationship with God. And there is a horizontal line sideways that represents your relationship […]
WHEN THINGS GO WRONG Sometimes in our lives things are so bad they can’t be fixed, like a car spinning out of control on a sheet of ice. What are we to do? Pastor Bill gave three answers to this question in his sermon last Sunday. Seek the presence of God. He is your fortress […]
DYING TO SELF If you read a broad swath of Christian writers or listen to a few hundred sermons, you’ll see and hear a sizable number of times that to be a steadfast follower of Jesus Christ you need to die to self. Jesus himself says that to gain your life you must lose it. […]
LOVE WITHOUT ACTION IS DEAD For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. –John 3:16 Pastor Brent at Life 21 Church in Northfield, Minnesota, told his congregation on Sunday that love without action is dead. “Because God […]
SANCTIFICATION Pastor Oswald gave the following message to the English troops in Egypt during the First World War. “Sanctification means intense concentration on God’s point of view. It means every power of body, soul, and spirit chained and kept for God’s purpose only…Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled […]
TOOLS Pastor Max concluded a sermon with these words.“We do not boast in ourselves but in Jesus. We have nothing to trumpet about ourselves but that we are tools to glorify Jesus. He does the work, not us. It’s not what we have done for Him but what He has done for us and through […]