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Lord, If You had been here!

“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…

This Changes Everything!

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…

God Transforms

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…

Jesus Fulfills the Passover

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…

More of Jesus, Less of Ourselves

We at ACF have heard several messages pertaining to Philippian’s 3:12-14″ I press toward the goal of the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus”. Everyone recognizing that “we” have not arrived/attained but do desire to press on toward Jesus and all that this means. This week Pastor Glenn suggested that if Jesus is…

Pressing On!

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…