Have we forgiven one another?
Listen in if you missed Sunday School this week...
Keep ReadingWhy study the Trinity?
The first in our series reviewing "The Triune God" by Chapel Library...
Semper Reformanda and a new blog series
A review of the Semper Reformanda conference and plans for a new blog series...
A history of false teachers in the church
John MacArthur has just started a new series of blogs on the false teaching coming in the form of “social justice” that I would highly recommend everyone read. Of note for our sermon tomorrow is this entry on the history of false teachers in the church that I think is very pertinent to our sermon series through Jude....
Is the Bible Enough?
While many of us believe the Bible is inerrant and true in all it says we often live as if the Bible is not sufficient or enough to teach us how to live and worship as Christians....
Registration for our 2018 Rooted Conference is now open!
Registration is now open for our 2018 Rooted Conference! We are blessed to have Pastor Tom Ascol come and speak with us on “Life in the Family of God” for our second annual conference. Make sure to check out our conference page at www.therootedconference.com and get tickets now. We look forward to seeing everyone there! ...
New Sunday School Series
This week in Sunday School we will be starting a new series teaching through our church confession, the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith. This is a series that Pastor Shawn and I have been desiring to start for some time and are excited to finally begin! We will not being trying to teach through the entire confession in a single go. To do that and give justice to the entire document would take years. Our approach will be to take small sections, a chapter or part of a chapter, and teach through these sections for a few weeks. We will then alternate back and forth with the other regular teaching topics that make up our usual Sunday School curriculum. Our hope is to slowly, as a church, become more familiar with the riches and insights of our Confession of Faith. We will seek to grow in our knowledge of the truths of scripture so plainly laid out in the Confession and gain a more firm grounding for our faith. We will be trying to continue our recent practice of recording the Sunday School so that those who are unable to attend every meeting will be able to follow and learn along as we embark on this exciting endeavor. See you all Sunday! ~Pastor Joshua ...
Armed to Battle Worldly Philosophies
Reflections on a talk by Nancy Pearcey, author of "Finding Truth"...
Book Recommendation
This past Sunday we looked at the introduction to Luke's Gospel and talked about the importance of the Word of God to our lives as believers. A good book that I'd recommend to all of you on that topic is Kevin Deyoung's book "Taking God at His Word". Like many of his other books he takes very important Christian ideas and explains them in easy to understand ways. The book ...
Keep ReadingAn End to The Beginning!
We finished Genesis! It has been a wonderful and growing time as we have spent the past year-and-a-half preaching through the first book of the Bible. I hope you have all appreciated the beauty and applicability of God's Word. I hope you have also grown to see more and more how much the entire Bible is about Jesus Christ! Through the course of Genesis we saw the wonders o...
Keep ReadingSunday School - Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Yesterday we finished 1 Corinthians in Sunday School! What will be next you ask? For the next few weeks we are going to take a break from going through a book of the Bible and look at some articles that will push us to look biblically at our life as believers in Christ. The first article is by Tim Keller and addresses Forgiveness and Reconciliation in the life of the Chur...
Keep ReadingLet's get together around the gospel
In Sunday school this past week we started in on the last chapter of our study through 1 Corinthians. Here we read, "Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I ...
Keep ReadingA Call to Holiness
In this sermon Pastor Shawn demonstrates the necessity of holiness in the life of a Christian and calls on us to strive for the holiness that only the Spirit of God can bring....
Keep ReadingThe Defilement of the World
In this sermon Pastor Joshua delves into the shocking story of Dinah and sees in the midst of great evil and falleness that God is teaching his people to be wary of a world that seeks their defilement....
Keep ReadingJacob Wrestles with God
In this sermon Pastor Shawn looks at the account of Jacob wrestling with God. We see a man who has gone from self-sufficient to now broken and ready to be used by God for his purposes....
Keep ReadingWhen Brothers Dwell in Unity
In this sermon Pastor Joshua looks at the meeting of Jacob and Esau after 20 years of hostility and separation. What we see is a beautiful picture of the reconciliation that God works in the hearts of his people along with a call to be reconciled to our brothers and sisters in Christ....
Keep ReadingAbiding in God's Word
In this sermon Daniel looks at the account of Jacob preparing to meet his brother Esau. In examining Jacob's prayer to God we see a man who has been transformed and now stands on the promises of God in the midst of an uncertain future....
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