How Salty Are You?

Verse of the Week: You are the salt of the earth. ~Matthew 5: 13. 

How Persecuted Are You?

Verse of the Week: Blessed are the persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. ~Matthew 5:10-12. 

How Peaceable Are You?

Verse of the Week: Blesses are the peacemakers for they shall be called the sons of God. ~Matthew 5:9.

FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT

Benedictus- The Song of Zechariah

Verse of the Week: Praise be to the God of Israel, because he has  come and has redeemed his people. Luke 1:68.

Exalt the Lord

Verse of the Week: You are my God and I will exalt you. Psalm 118: 28. 

Go Visit the World

Verse of the Week: Therefore go and make disciples of all nations. -Matthew 28:19.

When Fire Came Down From Heaven

Verse of the Week: How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal is God, follow him.- 1 Kings 18:21.

Come Into the Ark

Verse of the Week: Then the Lord said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen you are righteous before Me. "- Genesis 7: 1

On Eagles' Wings

Verse of the Week: You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.- Exodus 19:4. 

Sunburned for God

Verse of the Week: When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the Lord. - Exodus 34:29.

Authentic Worship

Verse of the Week: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. -Philippians 2: 10-11.

A Friend of God

Verse of the Week: You are my friends if you do what I command. -John 15: 24. 

The Harvest is Ripe

Verse of the Week: You know th saying, "Four months between planting and harvest." But I say wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe for harvest. The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike! -John 4: 35-36.

The Place Saved for the Unsaved

Verse of the Week: But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. - Revelation 21:8.

Ten Thousand Years

Verse of the Week: He will wipe way every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. -Revelation 21:4.

O Worship the Lord

Verse of the Week: O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.- 1 Chronicles 16:29.

The B-I-B-L-E

Verse of the Week: Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path. - Psalm 119:105.

The Best Things in Life are Free

Verse of the Week: For it is by grace you are saved through faith and this is not of yourselves. It is the gift of God. -Ephesians 2:8

Why Honduras?

Verse of the Week: The King will reply, "truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of theses brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." - Matthew 25:40

Little SIns

Verse of the Week: But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this commnity into the land I give them." -Numbers 20:12.

Swallowing Camels

Verse of the Week: Woe to you teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices-mint, dill, and cumin.  But you have neglected the more important matters of the law- justice, mercy, and forgiveness.  You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.  You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel! -Matthew 23: 23-24.

Let's Go Visit the Baby- The Wisemen

Verse of the Week: On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother, Mary, and they bowed down and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.

-Matthew 2: 11.

The Baby Comes to Visit

Verse of the Week: Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jeruselem.

-Luke 2:38

What the Shepherds Saw

Verse of the Week: Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about. -Luke 2:15

Let's Go VIsit the Baby

Verse of the Week: But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? -Luke 1: 43

Thanksliving

Verse of the Week: It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most high. -Psalm 92: 1

 Marching With the Saints

Verse of the Week: Unto the Church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus. -1 Corinthians 1: 2

Building the Church

Verse of the Week: So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. -Ephesians 4: 11-13.

Where Are You Going?

Verse of the Week: Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. -Matthew 7: 13,14.

What Am I Doing Here?

Verse of the Week: Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. -Ecclesiastes 12: 13.

Who Am I?

Verse of the Week: Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. -Psalms 139: 16. 

Where Did This All Come From?

Verse of the Week: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. - Genesis 1:1.

Guest Speaker

Nathan West

World Communion SUnday

Caleb -A man With a Different Spirit

Verse of the Week: But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it. - Numbers 14: 24.

How's Your Love Life? (Part III)

Verse of the Week: Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall become one flesh. -Genesis 2: 24. 

How's Your Love Life? (Part I)

Verse of the Week: You shall love the Lord God with all your heart and soul and strength. -Deuteronomy 6:5.

At the Feet of Jesus

Verse of the Week: She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said.  But few things are needed or indeed only one.  Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her. -Luke 10:39.

Making the Invisible Visible

Verse of the Week: Let your light shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. -Matthew 5:16.

Looking Back, Looking Forward,

Looking Inward

 Verse of the Week: For everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. -1 Corinthians 11:28.

Is There Any GOOD News?

Verse of the Week:  For I am not ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes.

-Romans 1:16

Standing on the Promises

Verse of the Week: Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. -2 Peter 1:4

Watch and Pray

Verse of the Week: Therefore, keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. -Matthew 24:42.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Verse of the Week: But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the words and understands it.  This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what is sown. -Matthew 13:23