As Jesus turns and makes His final approach to Jerusalem, He encounters a rich young ruler and a blind beggar. In between the encounters, Jesus makes His final passion prophecy in the presence of His disciples. In this final passion prophecy, Jesus takes the opportunity to teach the disciples the eternal significance of what He…
James, the half-brother of Jesus, tells us in chapter 2 of his letter to those who were dispersed due to persecution, “Faith without works is dead!”. God is calling us to live out our faith… to be the light in darkness. In this message, our special guest speaker, Dr. David Gregorin, tackles the challenge of…
Sometimes things don’t go as planned. Over the next three weeks we are going to be looking at three passion prophecies where Jesus predicted that he would be rejected, suffer, die, and rise again. In each of those prophecies, the disciples were confronted with a difficult dilemma. They missed the Gospel because their focus was…
Sometimes things don’t go as planned. Over the next three weeks we are going to be looking at three passion prophecies where Jesus predicted that he would be rejected, suffer, die, and rise again. In each of those prophecies, the disciples were confronted with a difficult dilemma. They missed the Gospel because their focus was…
We all face giants of seemingly epic proportions in our lives, but there is a fine line between courage and stupidity! What God sees as courageous is often viewed and touted by the world as stupid. CS Lewis once said, “Courage is not simply one of the virtures, but the form of every virtue at…
In this sermon we will continue our journey from the Parade and the Garden to a place we scarcely want to venture… the Cross. Why? Why is the cross so controversial? Just last week Marshall Polston, a 20 year old sophomore at Rollins College, was suspended from college because his muslim professor stated that “the crucifixion…
Anyone can cut and paste Scriptures out of context and scream that Hell does not exist and that you don’t have to worry about going there. In fact that’s exactly what Brett Gallaher does in his blog, “Four Reasons Why You Are Probably Not Going To Hell”, published on The Huffington Post weblog in January…
Last week we looked at two trees that were placed in specific locations in the Garden of Eden. God warned man about the precious gift that he was about to be given… the gift of choice. Giving a man options is the ultimate test of love. However, any abuse of this free will to choose…
Some lessons in life are only learned through adversity. Charles Spurgeon once said, “Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.” Have you ever attended life’s School of Hard Knocks? If you haven’t, I’m sure life will make sure that you are enrolled soon.…
