Let us rejoice and exult and give him glory, because the wedding celebration of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. She was permitted to be dressed in bright, clean, fine linen" (for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints). Revelation 19:7,8
A lone Christian is an oxymoron. There must be a gathering, a congregation, an assembly. This ekklesia, this church, the body of Christ, is meant to image God on this earth. We are his physical body on the earth. We collectively are his ambassadors on this planet. There are small pieces of the United States…
Abraham had a promise from God that he would have descendants that would be like the stars in the sky or the sand on the shore. He, through the suggestion of his wife Sarah, slept with her slave Hagar. Hagar became pregnant and had a son. They named him Ishmael. This was not the promised…
Repentance means stepping out of independence back into dependence, and the measure of your repentance will be the measure of your dependence. Every area of your life in which you have not learned to be truly dependent on God is an area of your life in which you have not as yet repented. Major W….
This is an outline I created from Hebrews chapter 11 years ago. I preached this as a sermon titled, “So, What’s Your Excuse?” The main idea was that whatever excuse you could come up with for not serving God, someone in this list would be able to stand up and say, “you can’t use that…
If a child loses his parents, he is called an orphan. If a wife loses her husband, she is called a widow. If a husband loses his wife, he is called a widower. But what do you call a parent who’s lost a child? We don’t have a word in the English language for this….
The first mountain we are going to look at is Mt. Sinai. After the children of Israel make the exodus from Egypt, they go to Mt. Sinai. This is where God covered the whole mountain with smoke and fire and the people weren’t to come near it. Moses was instructed by God to come to…
Do you remember going to church camp as a teenager? Remember singing, learning about the Lord, having fun, developing relationships with other believers, and magnifying Jesus? Remember the spiritual high you would have that would last for a short time after? Maybe you remember going to a Christian retreat or seminar as an adult. You…
In your opinion, what is the biggest issue, or problem, the church faces today? The issue could be something internal within the church, external against the church, or feel free to tell me both. Answer in the comments.
Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the sky displays his handiwork. This verse just kept running through my mind as we watched the eclipse. I also thought how I want the love of God to eclipse everything else in my life. I can’t love God. I’m incapable of it. But God loves…
What was the sin committed by Adam and Eve in the Garden? We know that it was disobedience to God’s commands, but what is the reason for the disobedience? What lies under the disobedience? I have heard many people say that it is pride that Satan tempted them with. I even used to say that…