There are a variety of issues in our culture now that as Christians we should not learn or copy. This is the same as it has been for centuries, but sometimes we forget that we a...

Diane Smith stands in and speaks on the power of prayer in our lives

The covenant relationship between Jonathon and David is a picture of the New Covenant, where Jesus trades garments of righteousness with us at the cross. Take a listen.

Where in your life is your understanding of yourself dominated by the giants in your land, or more specifically in your head? God understands that there are giants in the land, ...

What do you do when you know you've been asked to do something, but can't do it...yet. This is the spot that David is in as he enters Saul's court. He has been anointed king, bu...

Samuel needed a reset on how he sees people. Jesse's family needed a reset on how they sees people. Bethlehem needed it. We need it, too. We need to look at people not through t...

Three things in the sermon this morning. First, there is a need to locate David in the story of Israel. Second, do we understand what it means that to be a person after God's ow...

Ted Pancoast stands in on this last Sunday of the year and asks the question, "How are you nice?" This is not a how to be nice, but rather how am I nice and is it my default res...

What in the world does God need to overcome? He could overwhelm anything and anyone, except that He does not violate our freedom. He then overcomes our perceptions of Him with t...

In the text there is an amazing array of mighty deeds that God will be re-creating, but that is not the most astounding deed that He does. The most astounding action that God do...

If you have ever wondered if God is at work in the world, look into your own life and the lives of those nearby. If you can see God at work in you or others, than know that as p...

As we enter into the Advent season, we figuratively join those who waited for God to enter the world at the first Christmas. At the same time we wait for His second Advent hopin...

Many hope for thankfulness to come from their devotional disciplines, but that is opposite of how it works. Knowing that you have been given a gift beyond your own reach--knowin...

During the closing of the book. John shows us that there are three concepts that we need to pay attention to at all times...not just the time at the end. 1) That near is always ...

Don't be confused God isn't making all new things...that is not what the text says. What it says is that God is making all things new. He is renewing everything, not throwing it...

In a letter written to the church to keep it from slipping off track. Bill Strite (filling in for Pastor Dave) emphasizes the love of Christ that under girds our lives and that ...

If we are to understand of heaven (and our future). The box of our understanding of what heaven will be like needs to have these items removed. So that we can see our future mor...

There are three things that matter in this text before you can preach judgement from it. First, the throne makes it's seventh appearance of the book and all of them need to be s...

There are three traits that every passionate follower, that I have ever met, has.They are: 1) Radically contented in God. This statement characterizes this contentment, "I want ...

One thing that people forget about Revelation and thinking about the Millennium is that the Bible never, ever, never...not once ever says, "Here is a measuring stick for someone...

Guest Speaker: Pastor George Beers preaches on the example of Peter's pursuit; and Charles Wesley's pursuit of the personal savior that they have met in Jesus.

The song that you never here at a wedding...here comes the groom. Why? Because he is already there. The text includes the fifth opening in Revelation, each one shows us a pi...

Silly in love with God--that is the terminology that I'd use to describe most engaged people. They're silly in love. They have set aside all of the other options and chosen this...

What should you do if you happen to find yourself in a place like Babylon? Do you know how to test the temperature of the water that you swim in? Here are 4 ways to maintain you...

One of the most sobering texts to read about how the Wrath of God is poured out upon those with the mark of the beast--with the character traits of the beast. It is the third se...

The text talks heavily about the marks upon God's people's forehead and for that of the world's people. What are all those marks about? What are the marks. For God's people ther...

Questions about how to avoid being deceived in this world? Wondering about that number in chapter 13? Here is a bit of a primer on that text around the second beast.

Karen McCue stands in with an message of hope, that the Lord is still God in your life

The beast of the sea is a presented in Revelation as a parody of the Christ in Revelation 5, but instead of sacrifice the beast (the machinations of the world's powers) use forc...

How do we as Christians get through this messy world. Through the testimony of Jesus, through knowing the truth, and sharing the new life that His gospel brings to us.

Often people think that it is the Law and the Prophets is the witness and way to share the good news, but it is only the way if it is delivered in repentance.

Many who first come to God often think that everything will be fun and happy during their discipleship journey, but that is not actually the promise that Jesus makes. The promis...

Bev Brown steps in and talks about chasing your dreams and what that might mean in the light of God...who is the God of all your days

Learning how to give well is a matter of following the examples in our lives. First we see people that give; then we receive so abundantly the giving that God does in us; and th...

Bill Strite stands in for Pastor Dave and talks about the struggle to take God's word into the community while all the time you're asking yourself, "Why me Lord?"

What in then world does it take to get our attention? God will go to great lengths to convince people that they should change their ways. But, before people can change their way...

In the midst of everything happening on Earth, there in Heaven, where everything is decided, there is silence and the prayers of the people of God are reverberated back. Now our...

Pentecost is the birthday of the church. God's purchase of His people - warranted by the presence of His Spirit within.

In faith a gift has been given. However, many guard it as Beauty and the Beast's Beast guards his flower, by keeping everyone away. This is not how faith is guarded. It must be ...

God seals His people and that does two things. 1) it enables them to stand at the interface between heaven and earth...not to stumble but to stand, because the Christian is that...

God is not impatient with us, for our own sake, but rather even when He punishes it is only to get our attention and to bring us to repentance. What will it take to get the eart...

What does it mean that at the throne is the lamb...not a lion. It changes everything about how we need to understand power and its use.

Revelation 4 and 5 are parallel to and follow Isaiah 6. There is a throne in heaven and it is not empty nor has it ever been.

As the stone that blocks the tomb of Jesus is rolled away it reveals a Lord that is greater than death. At Easter death actually no longer has the last word on our lives. Jesus ...

For all the prophecy and study that the Jews had regarding the coming messiah, no one got that correct, and then after he came as he taught in and around the area, they still di...

Amen means that's the way it is. Jesus is the faithful witness to who God is; but He isn't looking for our mild approval. We are invited into His new creation and yet our zeal l...

There are two possibilities for what the open door might mean. 1) a door for the word of God to go through; or 2) A door that allows anyone to be in relationship with God. There...

Sardis is not a church beset by false doctrine or practices. It is far too dead for that. Sardis has peace, but the peace of the cemetery. As children of God though Jesus is cal...

Glendine Leonard stands in and talks about the inspiration and meaning behind the Sanctuary Glass Windows.

There are 4 types of theological Trojan Horses, 1) shiny and new; 2) minimizing; 3) majoring on the minors; and 4) malignant. Each of those Trojan Horses are cul-de-sacs that de...