Pastor Cheryl shared from 2Chronicles 6 and 7 that prayer can be a powerful connection and conduit for encountering God. Solomon had been gifted like no one else before or after him and his encounter with God is breath taking. The brief history that follows below, (reading all of the verses will provide more specific…
“Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.” Martha and Mary spoke these words (Jn 11:21, 32) but what do they mean, and what can we learn from their sorrow, and Jesus response? There should be no surprise that serious sorrow is part of life on earth, yet we are reminded…
Jesus is alive! He has been raised from the dead, never to die again. He is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords! Early that resurrection morning He was raised from the dead in the power of the Holy Spirit, as some of His closest followers were soon to discover. People are still coming…
In Luke 22:19-20, Jesus introduces Himself as the fulfillment of the Passover Feasts promise. He declares His body to be the broken bread of every meal, and His blood is identified with a New Covenant that changes the heart of a person (Jer 31:31-33). What does the promised heart transformation look like? The Last Supper…
Ex. 12:14 “So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.” Only God knew what His children would do to remember this great deliverance. They had waited for several hundred…
We often say Christianity is not religion, it is a relationship with Jesus. Too often it still looks like religion to many, but is it? Phil. 3:12 “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid…
In a trendy world the best things in life are timeless! Jesus is out teaching with His disciples when a man asks Him to tell his brother to share the inheritance with Him. You don’t have to travel far or look hard to find things that don’t appear to be fair. The distribution of the…
In a trendy world the best things in life are timeless! According to 2Pet 3:10-13 the earth as we know it has an expiration date. It will not last forever! It will be destroyed and God will make new heavens and a new earth, where we will begin eternity with Him. From what you know…
The best things in life are TIMELESS! In a trendy world the best things in life are timeless! Honey and love! Honey has an indefinite shelf life if stored properly stored, love never fails, and love abides (1Cor 13). There are four texts in the Bible that refer to the “new heavens and new earth”.…
Today in our Sunday service instead of listening to a sermon, we made room for gratitude to God and others in the form of people testifying to what God had done in their lives in the past year. We heard of cancer’s survived, and overwhelming crises meeting an overcoming God. Some people told of how…