When Truth Confronts Our Hardened Hearts

Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in James, we found ourselves in verses 19-27 of chapter 1. One of the nice things about the book of James is that most passages are straight-forward and easily understood, but the real difficulty is...

The Failure of Man and the Goodness of God

Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in James, we were met with both encouragement and conviction. We read that those who endure trials will be blessed with life in Christ. But we also read that enduring trials is not easy and that when we fail...

A Boast That’s Out Of This World

Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in James, we were met with a sort of grounding exercise for the believer. James tells his poor readers to boast in their exaltation in his rich readers to boast in their humiliation, which may sound like...

Preaching to Ourselves

Church family, This past Sunday, as we continued our Psalms summer series, Jared led us through Psalm 43. Here the psalmist demonstrates a crucial practice for God’s people, that is the practice of preaching to ourselves. The psalmist is wracked with all kinds...

What is Man Before an Eternal God?

Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued in Psalms for the summer, we were reminded by Psalm 39 of the brevity of our lives. In this Psalm, David describes not only his own life as fleeting, but the whole of humanity which is no more than a single breath from...

Christ Overcomes Our Stubbornness

Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in Acts, we say Paul finally give his defense before Festus and Agrippa which focused primarily around Paul’s own testimony. Here we get a new detail about what Jesus had said to him in that miraculous...