Memorial Day - a time to remember.  A time to remember those who gave their lives for the freedoms that we enjoy.  A time to remember loved ones, family and friends that have passed on recently and a long time ago.  A time to remember that there is life beyond the grave.  A time to remember “thus says the LORD; stand in...

Happy Mother’s Day!  As we pause to “thank and honor” our Mother’s present and past, womanhood is under attack.  Mother’s and women in general are so vitally important and critical to our society and to God’s church.  From the very beginning God created male and female.  The bible says that...

Essential Theology for Troubling Times

Tithing and Stewardship

From the very beginning, humankind was created to be steward’s of God’s creation.  The bibles says in Genesis 1:26, “Then God said, ‘let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds...

Essential Theology for Troubling Times

The Second Coming

“For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God.  And the dead in Christ will rise first.  Then those who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the...

Essential Theology for Troubling Times

The Kingdom of God

“Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘see here or see there!’  For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” (Lk 17:...

Essential Theology for Troubling Times

The Authority of Scripture

The bible, sixty-six books contained in one, penned by forty different authors (“holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit” - 2 Peter 1:21b), over fifteen hundred years with one central message - “…that Christ died for our sins according...

Happy Easter!

“Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He ROSE AGAIN the third day according to the Scriptures.” (cf. 1 Corinthians 15: 3-4)

What does the resurrection of Christ mean to you personally?  How has it impacted your life?  Do you think and live differently in...

Essential Theology for Troubling Times

The basis for Christian Unity

A Christian, by definition, is one committed to Christ - a follower of Christ.

Therefore, Christian unity must be centered in Jesus Christ.

The reason Christianity cannot unite with “religions” and “cults” is because they deny the deity and purpose of...

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The Mission of the church

The Great Commission (cf. Matthew 28:19-20) given by Jesus Himself, is still the mission of the church - past, present, and future.  We are to “Go” and proclaim the good news of salvation - “for the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which was...

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The nature of the church and church membership

When I think about the nature of the church, I cannot help but to stop and think about whose church it is - it’s God’s church (cf. Acts 20: 28b).

Christ is the head (cf. Ephesians 4:15) and church is the body of believers

(cf. 1 Corinthians...