Recently, I met with a group of pastors as part of a networking group here in Virginia. We talked about how powerful the movie Fireproof has been. Several are teaching or plan to teach it as a marriage enrichment series.
Recently, I met with a group of pastors as part of a networking group here in Virginia. We talked about how powerful the movie Fireproof has been. Several are teaching or plan to teach it as a marriage enrichment series.
Our Student Ministry, with its own praise team, "Heartsong" led worship on Sunday June 8, 2008. We recognized our 2008 graduates as well. We hope you are blessed as you listen to the service!
As Children of God, we are recipients of God’s grace. 1 John 3:1 tells us that we are God’s children because of his great love for us: “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
Our conversion experience from a life separated from God to a life that is transformed by God through Christ yields an outward change of behavior. I believe that the Christian baptism is symbolic of this life transformation. And this Christian baptism is a witness to the desire to live for Christ in attitude and action. We are to have the “same attitude” as Christ. So what is that attitude? I see the following: to suffer for doing good; to be done with sin; to
In reading from the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, the theme of unity between Gentile and Jewish Christians permeates chapter two. One major observation is that there are not separate truths of God’s promises communicated for Gentile and Jewish believers. Paul writes that “all of us” gratified the cravings of the sinful nature (2:3). And all of us
Wednesday April 16, 2008 by Rev. Bob Lee
Jeremiah speaks words of condemnation to the ungodly and disobedient rulers and leaders of Judah. Perhaps these words echo 22:8 “they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God and have worshiped and served other gods.” God would bring severe punishment in the form of Babylonian Captivity. And Jerusalem was not exempt.