“You Shall Call His Name Jesus”
After 400 years of silence from God, suddenly an angel appears to a virgin with a message that will change the world and bring about the hope for mankind, the birth of the Son of God in human flesh. Join us as we look at this first part of the message of Christmas. Video Audio
Abraham and the Judge of all the Earth
“Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?” WIth those words, Abraham intercedes for the righteous in the city of Sodom, as God prepares to destroy it for its wickedness. Join us as we look at this reminder of the nature of God and the justice that is fulfilled in his Son. Video Audio
The Battle Is The Lord’s
God saves his people and judges his enemies so that the nations might know that he is the true and living God who is mighty to save. Video Audio
Rejoice In The Lord Always
The Apostle Paul in Philippians, that epistle of joy, exhorts the congregation, the church there at Philippi, and by the Holy Spirit we’re exhorted, rejoice in the Lord always. Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice. Let’s start thinking about that exhortation in this way. The Christian life is a life devoted. The Christian life is a life devoted to seek, experience, and express joy. Video Audio
Our Citizenship Is In Heaven
You are the church of Jesus Christ, but more what Paul is saying, you are the commonwealth of heaven, the colony of heaven here. That should frame who we are, our identity. It should frame our circumstances. It should frame how we live our lives. It becomes the very lens, the framework by which we live; by this sojourn, this pilgrimage on our way. We’re born, we live, we die, yet we die in the Lord, absent from the body,…
What Has Been Granted to You
“The power of that resurrection so transforms our suffering that we enter into a deeper fellowship, a deeper communion with Jesus Christ. that our suffering, framed in this way, understood in this way, by faith, received in this way, somehow, by the power of that resurrection, unites us to Jesus further. And we enter into a deeper communion with the living Christ, even through a season, even through the valley of the shadow of death, even through the time that…
To Live is Christ, To Die is Gain
The apostle Paul is hard pressed whether to remain in this life in order to minister to the Phippian church or to depart and be with Christ, considering the possibility of being executed as a christian. This kind of already/not yet tension not only characterizes all creation (Romans 8:18-23), but it also describes our personal lives as well, issuing in a wisdom in seeking God, in assuring us of eternal life in Christ, and in appreciating the gifts and relationships the Lord has…
Saints in Christ Jesus
Paul begins his letter to the church at Philippi by introducing themes and setting the tone, all centered on Christ.. Video Audio
The Valley of Dry Bones
The Lord nurtures our hope, often, in the most dreadful places to demonstrate his goodness, wisdom, and power. Video Audio
God’s Comfort
The Lord’s mandate is to comfort his people, “Comfort, O comfort my people”; his means of comfort are spoken words, “speak kindly (to the heart) of Jerusalem and say to her….”; and his message is one of forgiveness and grace, “and say to her that her warfare has ended, that her iniquity is covered, and that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins ( a double portion of blessing in spite of her sins, cf.…