Last week was my (Marlene’s) turn to preach. As many of you heard, the lesson was chosen by council, Galatians 5: 13 – 26 to help shed scriptural understanding on our fourth guiding principle: ‘Gladly serving as the hands and voice of Christ.” The text focused on our freedom in ...

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another.  (Galatians 5:13) As this article is being written we are only a week away from Independence Day and celebrating the freedoms that ...

For we are God’s servants, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Each builder must choose with care how to build on it.  (1 ...

I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what ...

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.” (John 8:12) Following Jesus means that we always start by paying attention to who Jesus is, what Jesus does and where Jesus ...

“…until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.” (Ephesians 4:13) This is the point of being connected to Jesus. It brings us together to share in one faith ...

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38-39 We ...

“For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.” (Romans 6:5) The thing that makes Christianity different than other religions is the fact that we are connected to the one who is the author ...

But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8) If you have spent much time around Protestants then you have most likely heard people say things like, “Saved by grace,” or “Justified by faith,” or “you can’t earn your ...

For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. (Romans 1:16) For the entire month ahead we’re going to focus on some key insights from Paul’s letter to the ...

“Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human, like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them.” Acts 14:15 The verse above comes from a longer story ...

God’s voice said to him (Peter) again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.” (Acts 10:15) Have you ever sensed that God wanted you to do something that you didn’t want to do? In the verse above, God is instructing Peter to eat foods ...