Grasping God’s Word: Week 2

  • October 4, 2020
  • BY Scott Lilly
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R.A. Torrey: "Eight Fundamental Conditions of the Most Profitable Bible Study" The student must be born again Unregenerate men should not be forbidden from studying the Bible, for the Word of God is the instrument the Holy Spirit uses in the new birth (I Peter 1:23); but it should be distinctly understood that, while there are … [Read More...] Grasping God’s Word: Week 2
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The Church & Our Place in It: Week 2

  • October 1, 2020
  • BY Scott Lilly
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R.A. Torrey: "Church Membership" While How to Succeed in the Christian Life may sound too much like Your Best Life Now for comfort, it's really just a short book to help new believers. Torrey's words are quite basic, but they reinforce for us a truth which is often disregarded in today's church (and clearly was a problem … [Read More...] The Church & Our Place in It: Week 2
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The Lamb

  • September 28, 2020
  • BY Eric Morse
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In this series, we’re asking what it means to find our identity in being loved by Jesus. But before we can know His love we must first know Him. Last week we focused on who Jesus is; this week we focus on why Jesus came.   The passage (John 1:19-34) highlights the person and ministry … [Read More…] The Lamb

The Church & Our Place in It: Week 1

  • September 24, 2020
  • BY Scott Lilly
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D.L. Moody: "Some Join Church at Once" Below we see Moody's thoughts, expressed in his inimitable fashion, on the church's importance, in asides to young converts found in two sermons. He had little patience for those who wouldn't join. He also references the fact that when he was first converted, the church was skeptical and … [Read More...] The Church & Our Place in It: Week 1
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Lyrics

  • BY Eric Morse
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HE HAS MADE ME GLAD    I will enter His gates With thanksgiving in my heart I will enter His courts with praise I will say this is the day That the Lord has made I will rejoice for He has made me glad   He has made me glad, He has made me glad, … [Read More...] Lyrics

September 27, 2020

  • BY Pastor Philip Miller
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In 1803, Lewis and Clark began their famous expedition into the West. Their aim was to find a trans-continental riverway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and change the fortunes of the nation. Loaded with their paddles and canoes, they traveled to the Continental Divide. They expected to find the headwaters of the Columbia. What … [Read More…] September 27, 2020

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The Logos

  • September 21, 2020
  • BY Eric Morse
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Jesus loves me, this I know… What if that’s actually the key to an identity so free, so abundantly full of life, so solid and lasting that all other identities fade into insignificance?   For John, his most defining, grounding, and meaningful identity was found in the simple fact that he was and always would … [Read More…] The Logos

Sovereign Stories

  • September 8, 2020
  • BY Eric Morse
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Many of us are living through seasons of loss and unrest. And we’re asking: how could God possibly have a plan for all of this? Beginning this Sunday, we invite you to join us as we explore a God who provides redeeming mercies through the darkest times of our lives. We’ll see how we can trust Him and find comfort even though we may not understand the bigger picture of His plan.

If you read the Bible, you will find numerous stories where in God’s goodness despair is turned to deliverance, misery is turned to majesty, brokenness is turned to beauty, and grief is turned to glory. These stories are not here to stoke our wishful thinking. These stories show us, in compressed form, the redemption God … [Read More…] Sovereign Stories

Providence in Waiting

  • August 24, 2020
  • BY Eric Morse
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Many of us are living through seasons of loss and unrest. And we’re asking: how could God possibly have a plan for all of this? Beginning this Sunday, we invite you to join us as we explore a God who provides redeeming mercies through the darkest times of our lives. We’ll see how we can trust Him and find comfort even though we may not understand the bigger picture of His plan.

Sometimes doing the right thing is the last thing we want to do. Anyone can do the right thing when there’s no pressure. But doing the right thing when the pressure’s on, that takes character.   In this passage, we find four bold moves of obedience that change the trajectory of potentially tragic circumstances for … [Read More…] Providence in Waiting

Manipulating Grace

  • August 17, 2020
  • BY Eric Morse
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Many of us are living through seasons of loss and unrest. And we’re asking: how could God possibly have a plan for all of this? Beginning this Sunday, we invite you to join us as we explore a God who provides redeeming mercies through the darkest times of our lives. We’ll see how we can trust Him and find comfort even though we may not understand the bigger picture of His plan.

Hope is a beautiful thing. It gives us a reason to get up in the morning, to press through all the anguish and the sorrow of this life to something beyond, something bright, fresh, redeeming. Hope carries us through the darkness to the dawn.   Our story continues with Naomi having a sightline to redemptive … [Read More…] Manipulating Grace

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