This evening, we join together once again this Lent season to remember the last words of Jesus. Every word of Jesus as He hung on the cross is so significant. It was with agonizing pain and desperation that Jesus would pull Himself up by the nails through His wrists to gasp in enough breath to speak. Not a single word was accidental, but very intentional and meaningful. If you weren’t able to attend last week, be sure to check out…
We’ve been challenged the past few weeks about faith. There are a few different ways that we see faith manifest itself. We learned last week about showing our faith by our works and asking God what our next step of faith is. We were reminded that faith is what enabled Jesus to bring healing and deliverance throughout His earthly ministry and how it is still by faith that we receive everything from God. Faith can be seen through the immediate…
Last week, God took us back to the firm foundational basic of living by faith. Faith is where our salvation began. At some point, each one of us heard the good news about Jesus; His sinless life, death on the cross to pay the penalty for our sin, and His resurrection again to eternal life. We chose to accept this truth and this salvation by faith alone. After choosing to put our faith in what we heard, then we experienced…
This morning, I felt that God wanted to take us back to a foundational basic. Although this is a foundational basic at the very start of following Christ, it is also a key in continuing to grow and develop and experience all that God has for us. Faith – Greek pistis – an assurance or guarantee, firm persuasion, a conviction based upon hearing Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do…
