Church Family: God has had a plan before the beginning of time for us to fully enjoy the benefits of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The cross of Jesus Christ and His empty tomb cannot be separated. They are both dependent upon each other. Together they display that Christ’s payment for sin has been accepted and His victory is our victory. Do you enjoy the benefits that Christ has won for you th...  Read More

Our scriptural passages that account for what we commonly call, “Palm Sunday”, are all, interestingly, headlined in our Bibles as, “The Triumphal Entry” (Mt 21:1; Mk 11:1; Luke 19:28; Jn 12:12). I say “interestingly”, because, in truth, if anyone knew how to host a real triumph, and make a grand entrance, it was Rome, with its lavish, elaborate, extravagant, and entertaining propa...  Read More

March 24, 2023 Church Family: I love a good watch. I have worn a watch ever since I was a freshman in high school. Got to be on time, you know. I have always been mesmerized by a mechanical watch. It is amazing to watch the mainspring, balance wheel, hairspring, escapement, oscillator, gear train, dial train and other parts work so precisely to make seconds always be seconds and minutes always be ...  Read More

March 17, 2023 Church Family: One thing that I love watching is the communication that goes on between parents and their young children who cannot yet form words. You know when you see the child who is making sounds, unable to form words, and yet both the Mom and Dad know exactly what the child is saying. There is no confusion in the grunts, groans and sounds of the child as to what they are sayin...  Read More

March 17, 2023 Church Family: Do you remember the last time or maybe you are presently in a time of suffering, hardship or maybe you just need a change in life or maybe a greater opportunity has come your way and you do not know whether to take it or not. Life is full of difficult decisions that have to be made. These decisions will absolutely impact your life, your family, your career, and your h...  Read More

March 3, 2023 Church Family: Does your hope make you happy? It is supposed to. God left you great promises for you to bank on while in this sinful world so that you would be happy. If you do not have a hope that makes you happy then your hope is placed in something or someone on this earth that is broken. Everything on this earth has been subjected to futility (Romans 8:20). Everything on this ear...  Read More

February 24, 2023 Church Family: It is interesting to me how many in this world look at “nature” as innocent, pure and kind. We can make cliché comments like, “get back to nature" thinking that returning to a life that existed before the development of our modernized world will cure all our problems and evil.I love creation. I spend as much time as possible in God’s creation. I especially enjoy wa...  Read More

February 17, 2023 Church family: You are an heir! Have you ever inherited anything? It goes like this. If you are an heir to your father’s estate and that consisted of a stamp collection, his old 1971 Chevrolet truck, 50 acres of land and a house, then that is what you would inherit. Everything your father owned is yours. Now take that same thinking and apply it to the promise that you are an heir...  Read More

February 10, 2023 Do you know your real identity? Do you know your real destiny? As one redeemed, brought from death to life, made holy by Jesus Christ, you are a child of God, a son/daughter of Father God, heirs of God’s kingdom, fellow heirs with Christ, and brothers and sisters with other Christians and Christ (Rom. 8:14-17). God is not only your heavenly Father but your "Abba Father." You have...  Read More

February 3, 2023 Church Family: As believers we are debtors. We are debtors to many who have come before us. We are debtors to parents who fed, clothed, taught, corrected, protected and loved us. Take time and think about all the people in your life, past, present and future who have or are pouring into your life to bless you. The list is long. You would not be who you are without them. As the say...  Read More

January 27, 2023 Church: We live in an overlap of two realities. Do you feel the fight? Do you experience the drama? Our first glorious reality is that in Christ or because of the work of Jesus Christ on the cross and His resurrection, the “righteous requirement of the law has been fully met in us” (Rom. 8:4). Because of Jesus Christ fulfilling the law perfectly for us, we can no longer be condemn...  Read More

January 20, 2023 Church Family: After last week’s sermon on Romans 8:1, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,” I was asked the following question on four different occasions: Will this promise from God that we, as believers, will never experience any condemnation from Him only encourage us to sin?Let me answer this question by asking two more questions:1-   Do ...  Read More

January 13, 2023 Church family: The world says, you are your past failures. The world says, you are your work. The world says, you are your education. The world says, you are your performance. The world says, you are your social connections. The world says, you are whoever you want to be. The question for you to truly ponder is, “who are you as a Christian, what is your identity?”Paul tells us mor...  Read More

January 6, 2023 Church family: What do you think when you hear the phrase, “The Law of God”? Does dread and condemnation flood your heart and mind or does happiness, joy and peace consume you? Do you know what God’s purpose is for His law in your life? Do you know how to live under the gospel of God’s grace while also pursuing a life of holiness in obedience to His laws? Can you say as Paul says i...  Read More

December 30, 2020 Church family: If God wanted to remind you of only one thing to pursue for the new year that begins this Sunday, what do you think it would be?Would it be to reflect on His amazing love for you, in the gospel of Jesus Christ? Would it be to spend more time in prayer and communion with Him? Would it be to evangelize more? Would it be to earnestly pursue the gifts of the Spirit? Wo...  Read More

December 23, 2022 Church Family: Are you enjoying the peace of God today? There is no more thorough test of our profession of Christianity than enjoying peace with God? God, the Creator of the universe, wants you to rejoice, enjoy, exalt in the certainty that through His incarnate Son you can be at peace with Him. God wants you to receive this message with absolute clarity, so much so that on the ...  Read More

December 16, 2022 Church Family: Have you ever been on the other end of someone's condescending attitude. It is not a joyful event. But when God condescends to us it is infinitely perfect, loving and redeeming. This is the good news of great joy (Luke 2:10).Christ, as He is God, is infinitely great and high above all. He is higher than the kings of the earth, for He is King of kings, and Lord of l...  Read More

December 9, 2022 Immanuel, God is with us. The Son of God, being eternal God, of one substance with the Father, equal with the Father, infinite, perfect, pure in Spirit, invisible, without body, unchangeable, almighty, creator of the universe put on human flesh and dwelt amongst us. That is the greatest mystery in all of history. God became man without losing any of His God-ness. His name is Jesus...  Read More

December 2, 2022 Church Family: Are you struggling with sin today? Do you ever think, "why did I just do that?" You are not alone. We all still struggle with sin. Even while being declared righteous we choose words that kill relationships? We set our minds on the things of the world and flesh and pursue them. Why? Why is this Christian walk such a struggle? Why do we have to fight every day to liv...  Read More

November 25, 2022 Covetousness is sneaky. Do you know him? Do you know what he looks like? If you do not know who he is he may already be living in your heart causing upheaval in all areas of your life. Covetousness will certainly destroy a heart of thanksgiving and replace it with discontentment. In Romans 7:7-12, Paul tells us that covetousness is always wanting to seize an opportunity to destro...  Read More

November 18, 2022 Church family: What is God’s purpose for you today in whatever you are doing? Even right this second? Every day, in every moment, in every situation God desires that you would “bear fruit” for Him (Romans 7:4). You have been released from the shackles of slavery to the law, sin and death so that from your heart, by the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, you will bear fruit fo...  Read More

November 11, 2022 Church Family: The Bible uses various metaphors to describe our relationship as Christians with the One True God. Every metaphor communicates different realities about our relationship with Him. One of the most abundant metaphors in the New Testament is that of God as our master and His people as slaves. In Christ we have been made slaves of God. Most English translations avoid u...  Read More

November 4, 2022 Church Family: Are you living “under the law or under grace” (Romans 6:12-14)? God’s law says, “Do this and you shall live.” Can you already feel the weight of the law? Do this and don’t do that and you will live. But if you fail to keep this law completely you will die a spiritual death for eternity. The weight is heavy! If you believe that it is your responsibility to justify yo...  Read More

October 28, 2022 Church family: Think with me, you are living in fourteenth century England. You are a peasant farmer who works tirelessly to bring in an acceptable harvest for the landowner. Like everyone else that you know, you consider yourself a Christian, yet you have never read or seen a Bible. In fact, there is no Bible that has been translated in your language, English. And now there is a ...  Read More