How to begin? Sometimes beginning is a hard thing, trying to find the right words or the right thing to do. It is often a matter of much thought, how do we begin, taking a first step into something. There is an excitement at the beginning of a new venture that stirs the mind and the soul. Over time, we can find a once exciting venture to become an exercise in monotony. What happened, what changed, why do we become so disillusioned by the familiar? Pleasures lose some of their splendor the more we partake of them, extraordinary sights become normative as we get used to seeming them often, and ..read more

And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “This is what you shall say to the sons of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” - Exodus 3:14 We recently had a great time together, during our Sunday service, speaking about Encountering God. Moses was a case study for us as we looked on to what it meant to encounter the Living God in a burning bush and how that impacted the life of Moses. When we are introduced to Moses in the beginning of Exodus we are are introduced to a beautiful baby who survived the edict of a powerful king who was fearful for the future of his kingdom because th ..read more

"Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." 1 Corinthians 13:6-7 Have you ever been filled with delight? Have you ever been so enamored that it just drove you to sing? The scriptures have many instances where God shows up, remembers us in our weakness and it drove people throughout history to sing songs to the Lord. How do we, in a culture where we increasingly seek to be entertained, express our adoration to the Lord; moreover, do we truly delight in Him? Recently, at services here at Redeemer Christian Chu ..read more

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden..." - Matthew 5:14 When you think about some of your favorite, choice foods, one of the main considerations one would have is flavor. How does it taste, what components add to the savory undertones, was it something you had when you were young? Salt has some important roles, not only does it add some good flavor to food, it also is a preservative and can help food, especially meat, last longer. Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, refers to His disciples as the salt and light of the world. Not only are followers of Christ t ..read more

Romans 8:31 — What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? When reading through Romans 8, there is such a crescendo as Paul highlights the message of the Gospel and brings together all of the knowledge and inspiration of the ancient scriptures and the fulfillment of promise that we only find in Jesus Christ. God has predestined us to be conformed to the likeness of His Son and we can trust that God’s plans for us are good and will give us the most abundant life we could ever imagine, in fact, far greater than what we can imagine.  Earlier in the chapter, P ..read more

Genesis 3:8-10 — “Now they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” He said, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.” It is a curious thing to behold, in the garden of Eden, Adam, newly created, recently fallen, hiding from his Maker. He had just been given all of creation, a beautiful wife and yet, there he was, hiding from an ..read more

"Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and for which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses." - 1 Timothy 6:12 Welcome to the fight; if you haven't already noticed, we are in a fight and when you're in fight you generally want to, well, win. The apostle Paul, in his letter to Timothy, a young man who was a disciple of Paul, encouraged Timothy to fight the 'good fight of faith,' and be a man of his word, not going back on the confessions that he had made in front of many. While our Christian walk & faith that we are i ..read more

"Come, let’s sing for joy to the Lord, Let’s shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Let’s come before His presence with a song of thanksgiving, Let’s shout joyfully to Him in songs with instruments. For the Lord is a great God And a great King above all gods,..." - Psalms 95:1-3 On this, Independence Day weekend, we regale the long fought battles that brought about the birth of our nation. While things aren't always as good as we would like them to be, we get to enjoy a relatively good existence here in the USA. We live in a polarizing time, where we have become more sectarian and it ha ..read more

"Who is a God like You, who pardons wrongdoing And passes over a rebellious act of the remnant of His possession? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy. He will again take pity on us; He will trample on our wrongdoings. Yes, You will cast all their sins Into the depths of the sea." - Micah 7:18-19 There was a road, broken and difficult, and we were all on it; in fact we frequently find ourselves on this road. This road isn't the same for everyone, but for each of us, this road brings us to the undeniable realization that we don't deserve the goodness of God. Utter ..read more

There are many things being said these days about identity and the state of affairs we find ourselves in today. While there is much to make of the identity crisis of our age; there is also a need for fathers. From the very beginning, Adam, as the first man, was tasked with naming all the animals and then when woman was made, he didn't hesitate but to name her [Eve] as well. We have all different examples of fathers throughout scripture, some were decent, some weren't, some were quite good and some just terrible; of course we also have The Father, lest we compare Him to any earthly man. There ..read more