Winter Conference 2012
Join us on Sunday evenings at 5PM from January 29 through April 1 as we welcome visiting pastors and Bible scholars to encourage and challenge our hearts from the Word.
Studying the Book of Matthew
Join us Sunday morning at 11:00 AM as we continue our study of the Gospel of Matthew with Pastor David Crabb.
Join us for Awana!
Join us for AWANA every Wednesday night at 6:30. We have classes for all ages, from kindergarten through high school!
From the Pastor's Blog:
- I can remember being confused by preaching I heard growing up. On one hand, I would hear appeals to trust Christ and exp...
- The issue of race and the church has received a good deal of attention recently, when a church in Kentucky voted to ban ...
- "For this I was born and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth" (John 18:37). "The ...
- Last Sunday we began a series in the Book of Ruth using the English Standard Version (ESV) as our main translation. For ...
- Last Sunday I gave away ten books to anyone that wanted to pick one up under the condition that they would simply get to...
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- Great answer from David Powlison of the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation. 18685696 ...
- This Friday, a couple from our church - Nathan and Carrie Woods - will fly to Ethiopia to begin the final stages of t...
- Paul David Tripp's parenting seminar "Getting to the Heart of Parenting" is a DVD series (with study guide) that is desi...
- Robbie Low, writing in Touchstone (June 2003), points to an interesting 1994 study in Switzerland about the connection b...
- As we have studied through Colossians 2 together in our Sunday morning services we have seen the reality of our sufficie...
- On Sunday evenings in the month of January I'll be preaching on the topic of texts and translations, answering the quest...
- We are looking forward to a group of men from our church attending the Men's Heart Conference at Northland International...
- In his recent sermon entitled "The Church," Pastor Kevin DeYoung (East Lansing, MI) gives some really helpful suggestion...
- At the heart of the problems in our relationships is self-centeredness. The engine that runs Christ-like relationships i...
- In our study of the book of James we have reached James 4:1-4 which deals with the topic of worldliness. Over the last s...
- Dear Church Family, Yesterday morning we finished our seven week Newcomers Class with a time of question and answer. O...
- In last Sunday's sermon (AM), I mentioned some recent attacks on the deity of Christ, including attacks even on the popu...
- I ran across this article today by Thom Rainer, a long-time pastor who is known for his emphasis on evangelism. It was a...
- This Sunday I will be preaching from James 1:26-27. In verse 26 James says that some people seem to be "religious," but ...
- This Sunday, during the SS hour, I will begin teaching a Newcomers Class. The class is designed to give a grounding in t...
- Christopher Hitchens, perhaps the most famous atheist in the public sphere and best-selling author of the book God is N...
- During this week in which we consider Christ's death and ultimately His resurrection, this is an especially encouraging ...
- But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us Romans 5:8 “I would conclude t...
- I recently read the book Adopted for Life by Russell Moore. I was surprised by how moving and challenging the book was--...
- Someone asked me this question just two weeks ago. It's an important question and we must go to Scripture if we are to h...
- For many years the MacArthur Study Bible has been a wonderful resource for countless Christians. It was the first study ...
- Each month Christian Audio gives away an audio book for free. This month they are giving away two really great books: T...
- I came across these questions yesterday and found them perceptive and challenging: 1. If our church would cease t...
- In our Sunday evening services we have been studying together through the book The Gospel and Personal Evangelism by Mar...
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- "For this I was born and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth" (John 18:37).
- "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil" (1 John 3:8; cf. Hebrews 2:14–15).
- "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners" (Mark 2:17).
- "The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost" (Luke 19:10).
- "The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mark 10:45).
- "God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons" (Galatians 4:5).
- "For God so loved the world that whoever believes on him shall not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved" (John 3:16).
- "God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him" (1 John 4:9).
- "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly" (John 10:10).
- "Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against . . . that the thoughts of many may be revealed" (Luke 2:34ff).
- "He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed" (Luke 4:18).
- "Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarches, and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy" (Romans 15:7–8; cf. John 12:27ff).
HT: Desiring God
