September 14, 2025
Pastor’s Note:
Praise God our Father for His capacity, willingness and mercy to forgive our sins. When we sin our relationship with God is hindered. However, it is great to know that when we repent and ask God for forgiveness, He will grant it to us! His forgiveness is based on the fact that His Son, Jesus has already paid the punishment for our sin on the cross and rose again. "For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You." Ps. 86:5 NKJV “If You, LORD, should mark iniquities, O LORD, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with You, That You may be feared.” Ps. 130:3,4 NKJV
September 07, 2025
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What do you do if you feel depressed or discontent with a situation in which you find yourself? How do you find contentment? Do you look to the Lord, or do you look to something else? Do you look to something artificial to try to take care of your need or do you turn to the Lord Jesus and say, "I thirst."? Only Christ can satisfy our souls. Nothing else and nobody else will or can satisfy our deep spiritual needs. May the Lord create in us a greater hungering and thirsting for Himself and then may we be assured that the Lord will satisfy our hungering and thirsting with Himself. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.” Matthew 5:6 NKJV
August 31, 2025
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Communion is a solemn celebration of Jesus Christ. It points to His physical pain on the cross and to His spiritual suffering. When Jesus was on the cross, He became sin for us. God, His Father turned away from Him and Christ suffered the great ache of being abandoned by God. Communion is a time to celebrate the great work of Christ on the cross. Because He took the punishment for our sins and rose again, we can be saved from our sins by repenting and asking Christ to forgive us. Communion is a solemn celebration, and it is only for those who have already accepted Christ as their Savior and are walking in fellowship with Him .“ For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.” I Cor. 11:26 NKJV
August 24, 2025
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Justification is the act of God whereby He declares believing and repentant sinners not guilty and righteous. Man can never be justified before God on his own merits or in his own abilities. Only God can justify man to Himself. Man needs to be justified (declared righteous) by God because man is a sinner needing an escape from the wrath of God. Man is justified by God and receives salvation when he repents and places his faith in the Lord Jesus. When Christ was on the cross He got all of our sin. Upon belief in Him we get all His righteousness! Theologians call this the divine transaction. Praise God! "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." 2 Corinthians 5:21 - NKJV
August 17, 2025
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The church is called the body of Christ and each believer is a part of that Body. The church is also the bride of Christ and receives and responds to Christ's great love for her. The church is also a holy temple that God is building. A main purpose of the church is to accomplish God’s work on the earth as Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 5:19,20 “that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.” NKJV
August 10, 2025
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Jesus is always calling us to a deeper commitment to Him. When we think we have given Him our all He will by His Holy Spirit reveal another area in our life that needs to be handed over to His rule and reign. How many of us can say that we are always on the altar, not living for ourselves but unto Him who died for us and rose again? Let us by God’s grace always be willing to dedicate ourselves to God to deeper levels of obedience to Him. Jesus commanded us in Luke 9:23b,24 “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.” NKJV
August 3, 2025
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Communion is a time for us to especially commune with Christ to pray to Him and thank Him for His sacrifice on the cross. We remember that He took the place of punishment that we deserved because of our sins. We also reflect on the fact that His death and subsequent resurrection opened the door for us to be forgiven by simply asking Christ to forgive us of our sins. There is a sense that we are always to be preparing to participate in the Lord’s Supper. Each time that the Holy Spirit makes us aware that we have sinned against God we should confess the sin immediately, being gratefully assured of God’s promise in I John 1:9 “ If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” NKJV
July 27, 2025
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There is perfect unity between the Old and New Testament. The Old Testament presents a basis for understanding the New Testament and yet the New Testament is a volume for explaining and expounding the Old Testament. There is no conflict between the Old and New Testaments. Both reveal God as a God of love and as a God of wrath longing to save fallen man. Both are crucial for understanding God's plan of redeeming repentant sinners through Jesus Christ. Paul knew the value of the Old Testament for in Romans 15:4 he wrote, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.” NKJV
July 20, 2025
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As your pastor, I am very glad when you walk in truth. I am glad for the purity that walking in truth brings you. I am glad for the peace that walking in truth gives you. I am glad for the power over sin and power for service that walking in truth gives you. I am glad for the praise to God that comes from you as a result of you walking in truth. When a Christian is walking in truth and living for the glory of the Lord it brings great personal joy and joy to others. It is a good testimony to other Christians and to the world and it brings sweet Hallelujahs to the LORD! John wrote, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” 3 John 4 NKJV
July 13, 2025
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When we are devoted to one another there is mutual benefit. This devotion to one another starts with our devotion and dedication to the Lord. Lost people need the love of God in their lives. We have been given the responsibility to not only declare the love of God to a wicked world but to also demonstrate God's love to a watching world. May it be said of our church, “Behold how they love one another.” Jesus said, "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34,35 NKJV
July 6, 2025
Pastor’s Note:
We should come to the Lord’s Table with a great desire to commune and fellowship with Christ and our brothers and sisters in the Lord. While Jesus was administering the first communion service, He took the bread and then thanked His Father. He was thanking God, His Father for His own death which would lead to our salvation if we place our faith in Him! Christ took the bread and gave it to His disciples. In doing this He was offering Himself to His disciples for strength and sustenance, not to eat His flesh literally but to partake of Him spiritually. Jesus said, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” Luke 22:19b NKJV
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