A City on a Hill – Vision Sunday

Being the salt of the earth, the light of the world, and a city on a hill is not something you can turn off and on.  We are not meant to hide our light.  Shining brightly means that we love and show grace, even as we speak and live truth. Living this way should not … Read more

Prepping 101 – Doubters & Deniers

The issue of Christ’s return to judge the world is something very serious, it requires a sincere mind. It is a central concept all throughout scripture. The Old Testaments Prophets spoke about it, Christ himself spoke about it, and the Apostles continued to speak about it. Christ is going to return to judge the whole … Read more

Prepping 101 – Recognize the Lies

In our day and age, truth seems to just be a suggestion.  We are being told from many different sources that truth is now all relative to our experiences or our personal desires.  False information and sinful teaching seems to permeate from everywhere in our culture whether that be from schools and businesses, to media and … Read more

Prepping 101 – Hold on to Truth

In the midst of a world gone mad, there is quite simply nothing I can think of that is more important than truth.  There is no greater foundation that we can have on which to live our lives.  Yet many of us constantly seek after truth without opening our Bibles.  Peter is a strong advocate … Read more

Prepping 101 – Everything You’ll Need

Can you be prepared for everything?  If so, how?  What would that look like?  What would you need?     Believe it or not, that is the main thrust of 2 Peter.  When you look at this book as a whole, you quickly see that Peter’s purpose here is to: Prepare the church!  His hope is … Read more

Saved: An Open Heart

What is being saved worth to you? As we study the salvation story of Lydia in Acts 16 we see her answer to that question. It is without hesitation and she doubles down, all while knowing the cost. She stands as an incredible example of what it looks like when God opens a person’s heart … Read more

Saved: Seeking & Believing

This week, we continued our “Saved” sermon series by looking at Acts 16:22-34.  At first glance, it may seem like the apostle Paul and Silas were powerless and in a hopeless situation by being locked up in jail.  However, it was really the jailer himself who needed to be set free from the chains of … Read more

Saved: Receiving the Holy Spirit

To what lengths would God go, so that a lost sheep could be found? Jesus spelled it out in…Luke 19:10 (NASB) – “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Cornelius is a welcome example of God’s willingness to use extraordinary means to reach those who desire to … Read more

Saved: Seeing Clearly

This week’s sermon was focused on Acts 9 with the conversion and salvation story of Saul or Paul of Tarsus.  Before Paul came to Christ, he had no remorse for persecuting Christians and in fact, felt it was his service to God.  Paul wasn’t seeking Christ.  The truth of the matter was that Christ was … Read more

Saved: Hearing & Believing

On Sunday we kicked off the “Saved” series with a message about the Ethiopian Eunuch called “Hearing & Believing.”  In Acts 8 we find the Ethiopian is seeking God, but there is no path for him to have a relationship with God in Judaism.  He’s been relegated to the margins of the religious community.  But … Read more