Why Believe the Bible?

Read Hebrews 6:13-20 … It’s a question that is often asked by non-believers, “Why should I believe the Bible when there are so many other books?” To be fair, there are a great many books in the world today that claim to point to either a better life now in the form of health and …

Demons, Tongues, Poisons, and Healings

Read Mark 16:15-20 … The Great Commission given by Jesus is just that, a commission given to the Apostles to spread the Gospel – the Good News – of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ and the salvation that came along with that sacrifice. This driving mission statement has rightly been taken up by …

Treasure Talent Time

Read Proverbs 24:30-34 … There is always a time in the work of the Church when it’s the giving season. In our world everything seems to have a price, a cost that needs to be paid. Little wonder, as the things we have increase so do the resources needed for the management and care of …

We Don’t Get a Vote

Read 2 Corinthians 11:2-4 … Around this neck of the woods the “Vote for _________” signs are starting to pop-up like the perennial weeds that overrun a yard every spring, or the flu everyone seems to get regardless of the yearly inoculation. Really, those signs do serve a function – getting a candidate’s name in …

“… for the remission of sins.”

Read Luke 1:67-79 … The backstory is, while Zacharias “was serving as priest before God in the order of his division” (Luke 1:8), an angel visits him. Zacharias and his wife Elizabeth are described as being “advanced in years” so when Gabriel says, “your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son” (Luke 1:13) Zacharias balks …

Sometimes, A Tree is Just a Tree

Read Jeremiah 10:1-5 … The children of Israel were unique, in several ways really, but specifically in that unlike the nations and tribes around them, they only worshiped one God. Not only one God, but a God that forbid them to make idols to worship. This was the first and second of the 10 Commandments …