Church Family: The Son of Man has come to do what? Seek and save the lost - Yes. To serve and not to be served - Yes. To give His life as a ransom for many - Yes. And Luke adds, "the Son of Man has come eating and drinking" (Luke 7:34). Jesus’ life was filled with having meals and interacting with strangers. He was eating with strangers, prostitutes, tax collectors, pharisees, neighbors and discip...  Read More

Church Family: Do you ever wake up in the morning wondering if God loves you or if He still delights in you? Do you doubt if God even really likes you any longer? Has fear flooded your heart with thoughts that you will never be good enough to enter the Kingdom of Heaven? Have you lost passion or given up the fight to live a holy life because you doubt that God even exists? Nothing extinguishes you...  Read More

Church family: God loves for us to serve Him with zeal. What a great word... Zeal! Zeal is another one of those powerful words in the Bible that informs our lives. What is zeal? Zeal is an eagerness to do something with your greatest ability and all your strength. To be zealous means that you are not slow or lazy or half-hearted in your pursuit of some object or purpose. God loves zeal. He calls u...  Read More

Church Family: Will you please join together every Thursday for the next 53 weeks for a time of fasting and prayer for the purpose of GCT to:1) Have deep cravings to see God’s power in action.2) To see God reveal Himself and His reward through answering, moving, directing in the construction of our building.Why fasting?We fast to declare our absolute dependence on the Lord.Nehemiah 1:4-6 As soon a...  Read More

Church Family: Honor is thought to be a lost experience. Do you ever think about showing honor to others? Do you know what biblical honor is? Honor is when you value someone as worthy and precious with your deeds and words. Biblical honoring can only be done with selfless motives informed by humility and admiration of the one being honored. When we honor someone we are “considering them more signi...  Read More

Church Family:  Jesus loves you. His love for you is genuine and He asks us to have the same genuine love for each other (Rom. 12:9). The night before Jesus went to the cross to die for our sins He met with His disciples and gave them a new commandment (John 13:34-35). What is the commandment? That they would love one another in the same way that He loved them. And then Jesus told His disciples th...  Read More

Church Family: Every believer at GCT has been given a spiritual gift for the purpose of serving someone else’s need. This means that whenever you are in need at GCT there is somebody who has a spiritual gift to meet that need. This is what makes GCT an effective, loving body of Christ. But what if your needs are going unmet? Well, most likely if your needs are going unmet either you have not let a...  Read More

Be Informed: History of Israel, Islam, Hamas, Jihad, Romans 9-11, Eschatology, Just War DoctrineChurch Family: Please take an hour of your day (sometime soon) and watch this video in link below discussing Hamas, Jihad, Political Muslims, History of Israel, History of Palestine, Romans 9, Romans 11, differences in eschatology, Christian Just War Doctrine, Secular Culture in support of Hamas and mor...  Read More

Church Family: Have you ever been speaking to another believer who is struggling when all of the sudden a Scripture spontaneously comes to your mind that you know that this brother or sister in Christ in front of you needs to hear? You have this great conviction that this Scripture will lovingly bring great encouragement and it will build this believer up in the promises of God. So, what do you do...  Read More

Church Family: Let's make up a new term. Let's start with "physiology," which is the study of how the human body works. Now lets apply physiology to one of Paul’s favorite metaphors of the Church as “the body of Christ” with Christ being the “head of the body.” Church physiology would then be the study of the life of the Church, the body of Christ. Paul's metaphor of the Church being the body of C...  Read More

Church Family: Do you think highly of yourself? How would you know? Well, are you self-sufficient, thinking that you do not need any help from anybody? Are you self-serving, always thinking how will this benefit me not others? Do you think of yourself as superior because of who you are or what you do or what you have or what you look like? Do you think that God would struggle without you on His te...  Read More

Isn't it interesting that as Christian’s we are never told in Scripture to ask God to reveal His plan for our lives? Yes, it is a daily temptation to beg God to get a glimpse of tomorrow. That is His secret will for you and He calls you to live by faith trusting that He has it all for your good and His glory. On the other hand, you are told repeatedly to plea to God for wisdom and to cry aloud for...  Read More

Do you know God’s will for your life? Which one of those ten options in front of you is God’s will? Are you waiting right now for God to reveal His will? Have you been waiting long? Are you looking at God’s will as something He is hiding from you as you seek it? Do you think you need to hear every part of His will before you take the first step? Can you miss God’s will? If you "missed" God’s will,...  Read More

Church Family: How are you as a Christian to stand against the culture's demands for you to conform to all that it yells at you? Are you to get louder, make threats like them, write long social media rants, vandalize property, or maybe justify changing your moral standards to become more open and acceptable to those demands?Well, the Bible makes our response clear. God commands Christians to embra...  Read More

Yahweh: Your Portion - Your Cup - Your Lot - Your Beautiful InheritanceChurch Family: Because of the work of Jesus Christ, you have an inheritance that is the greatest inheritance on earth and in heaven. What is your inheritance? Your inheritance is Yahweh Himself and His endless blessings. David uses four metaphors to describe your inheritance in Christ in Psalm 16:5-6, “The Lord is my chosen por...  Read More

Church Family: Here is a heavy thought for you today. God demands everything from you as His child. He does not ask for 10% nor 90%. He commands everything, 100%. He calls you to be a sacrifice, a living sacrifice (Romans 12:1). The implications of God's call for you to be a "living sacrifice" impacts every area of your life. You cannot hold back 1% of your life from God's reign and kingship and s...  Read More

Church Family: Let's say that you have two friends that you see weekly. You really love and enjoy them both. They both appear to be living the same kind of life externally. They do good works in their neighborhood and community. They are nice, active, morally good, giving and concerned about the well-being of our nation and our world...  Read More

Hello Church Family: One of the ways in which GCT is obedient to the commands of Christ to reach the nations of the world with the Gospel is through the Brett and Taylor Rayl family work at Christ Bible Institute, in Nagoya, Japan as well as their church-planting work through Mission to the World throughout Japan.Nagoya, the Rayl's mission center, is Japan’s major manufacturing city. It is home to...  Read More

Church Family: For the last eleven chapters of Romans, Paul has been explaining the plan of God in saving Jews and Gentiles through Christ Jesus. This bridge section in Romans 11:33-36 brings us from eleven chapters of deep theological truths about our salvation to how it is to be applied to our lives in chapters 12-16 of Romans. Paul pauses before he gets to the application and lets the theology ...  Read More

Church Family: When you read the Old Testament, you quickly see that there were essentially three groups of people: national Israel, true Israel (the faithful remnant) and the Gentile (pagan) nations. You see that the nation of Israel was repeatedly involved in idolatry, apostasy, and rebellion, yet God always kept for Himself a faithful remnant. The remnant was those who trusted in God and would ...  Read More

Church Family: Well, what about the Jews? Has God rejected His people (Rom. 11:1)? They were God’s chosen people, right? If you look at Israel today as a nation, they have clearly fallen away from God by rejecting Jesus Christ as the promised Messiah. Is this not a failure on God’s part? Why is this even important for us to understand? Because, if God has failed on His covenant promises to Israel ...  Read More

Church Family: Does the Bible contradict itself teaching that God is sovereign over salvation while also teaching that man is responsible?We have seen in Paul’s letter to the Romans, that God is sovereign over salvation. He is King of all. (Rom. 8:29-39; 9:6-29). God has a purpose for every person and He orders and controls them to show His power and to proclaim His name in all the earth. Salvatio...  Read More

Church Family: This past Tuesday, it was my duty and delight to accompany my Dad to Boston general Hospital. We were to fly out of Wilmington early, arrive Boston, take a cab to his appointment with the oncologist, take a cab back to the airport, get back on the plane and fly home to arrive just before midnight. Oh yea, add one very short layover in LaGuardia, NYC each way. We made it to the appoi...  Read More

God, Israel and the Church are three of the main characters in the Bible’s epic story of redemption. In the Old Testament, Israel and God play the lead role. In the New Testament, the Church and God play the lead role. But how do these two main characters, Israel and the Church, relate to each other? Is Israel the same as the Church with just a name change? Or are they completely separate?To under...  Read More