The shortest book in the Bible,. (Maybe some preachers should take the hint). But not without significance. Jude mentions the inevitability of our pride creeping in if we are not careful and walking circumspectly. We are in line to receive great blessings from God. And, to receive this, we simply, need to remain grateful and faithful to God. He watches over us so faithfully but must get really tired of us continually being pulled away at our slightest inconvenience. Our Father has brought us through so many trials and situations, but not all of us remain grateful for His love and care. In fact ..read more

We use the term saved as Christians thinking that everyone will automatically know what we are talking about. Saved from what? What would happen if we were not saved? How do we know that this ‘salvation” is really needed in our life? All valid questions that we as Christians should be able to answer without getting defensive. It’s not necessarily an attack on us or our belief if the person is truly seeking an answer to the questions. Jesus Christ was always the answer from the beginning. From before the earth and before humanities fall and separation from God, God the Father had salvation in m ..read more

Today we conclude the series of “The Renewing of the Mind,” and, in doing so we have been asked these questions: 1. Do we have the desire? 2. Do we have the will? 3. Will we allow the Holy Spirit time to work? 4. Can we use the tools and pair them with the scripture that tells who we are? 5. And, finally, do we really believe that God wants us to be renewed? If we do, then we will implement the lessons paired with the time it takes to get it done. God has invested is us, do we, in turn, invest back in Him by giving Him the respect of ourselves? If we truly embrace being bought with a price, do ..read more

    We come to the next to last lesson.  Have you implemented any of these lessons?  Do you have a desire to? If your answer is no, why do you think you were saved?  Just to live a harder life than you had before?  One that causes you guilt along with all of the short comings that coexist with us as we are on this earth? We are made to exist without fear.  2Tim 1:7 tells us what God has given us and what He has not. He has not given us fear.  So any form of fear that shows up inside of us or around us is not from God, period. But how do we get where ..read more

Transformed by the renewing of your mind. TRANSFORMED! We can be truly changed in our WAY of thinking. God has made provision for your brain to be altered, grown, wired differently, transformed. When we say to anyone, “hope and faith” are the key for our belief in God. I would answer hope and faith in what? Do we really believe that if we have hope and faith we will never sin, or need to repent, or ask for forgiveness? I hope, and have faith that’s not what you believe. We are fallible creatures with glory locked inside of us with the Lord, the Holy Spirit, and the Father providing it. Today w ..read more

2 Cor 10:3-5, says the weapons we fight with & demolish strongholds, demolish arguments, knock down pretenses, and take captive thoughts to make them obedient to Christ. That’s a lot of day to day and hand to hand fighting! But if we look it is the weapons that do the winning, we just hold them properly in our hands. God will not be mocked by the worldly things which He has already defeated by His Son Jesus. Do we have it in us to stand with Christ? For if we do, these battles are expected and in our best interests to show the spirits and the world who we have faith in. Guard your mind wit ..read more

Someone asked me, because we were talking about the series we’re learning in service, if the default mindset is always negative. I said it doesn’t have to be, but I’m not sure that’s true. James 4:4 states that, “you can’t be a friend with the world without making yourself an enemy of God. We need to find a way to divorce ourselves from the world. The only way that happens is to think about the situation you are in. The present. The present is all we can deal with even if thinking toward the prize that is set before us might help us put perspective on our trial. Joy comes from the Holy Spirit ..read more

The Race. Our Christian life is a race, not one of sprinting, but one of endurance. We make our life interesting to say the least. Because we can truly say that our life is not one of performance or perfection, but of pushing on to the end. We come to a place where we get moments of clarity followed by landslides of doubt. `And this is the life we are to live. This is not an anomaly, but one of normality. Our life, remember, is getting us ready for eternity, not this life as the end goal. So, what we are going through is beyond the scope of our worldview here, and embraces the kingdom view of ..read more

We have learned some important things abut ourselves. We have two rulers at odds in our brain, the conscious and the sub-conscious. The rider and the elephant. Now matter how much the rider conscious wants to control the behavior our sub-conscious will attempt to over throw the effort just by bringing other thoughts, (especially from the past or future). Then we talked about the default mindset, taking us to places that we don’t want to go. It causes us to lose focus on the matter at hand by looking at everything and everyone around us. This causes the victim mentality to try and get us to ref ..read more

This morning we are privileged to welcome Aron Musingo from Uganda and Resurrection of Hope to our church. Aron is going to share some things from his ministry in Africa. We have been honored to share in his ministry for a number of years now and it will be great to hear first hand how God is working in that part of the world. Let’s give him our attention and maybe get an insight as to how better we might be able to pray and give toward their cause. In His Service, Pastor Brent ..read more