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The Object of Our Faith is Perfectly Trustworthy

There is a common misconception in the world that saving faith is taking a blind leap into the darkness and just hoping for the best. Some people think that people of faith leave reason at the door and take a leap out into the darkness and pray that Jesus will be there to catch [...]

Trusting in a God Who NEVER Lies!

The Bible says that God made the heavens and the earth in 6 days by speaking it into existence. This God is a Being with power that is unfathomable and unmatched anywhere else in the universe. This God is the Creator of life and the One who developed the very essence of existence.  We [...]

Evidence of Saving Faith

Jericho had been standing there for hundreds of years.  It was fully fortified.  Its inhabitants thought that it was invincible.  But Rahab heard God’s word through those who had been traveling through town. One theologian commented, “The people in Rahab’s time who most frequently used such houses of prostitution were traveling merchants.  From them she [...]

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The Strength of Fully Trusting God | James 2:18-26, Romans 4:1-22

  Sr. Pastor Mark Stafford   Last week I talked about a story of scandalous grace – the story of Rahab the prostitute.  God’s grace was radical beyond measure!  When God extended grace to Rahab, He reached down into a situation that was so immoral and He poured out so much mercy [...]

The Big Strength of Small Faith – James 2:18-26, Joshua 2

  Sr. Pastor Mark Stafford Rahab is a story of scandalous grace.  I don’t mean God’s grace was immoral.  I mean it was radical beyond measure!  With the grace God extended to Rahab, He reached down into a situation that was so immoral and He poured out so much mercy on Rahab that [...]

God Freely Gives the Faith He Requires

We can forever trust God because He never changes or goes back on His Word.  In this unreliable world, He is perfectly reliable!  God says in Jeremiah 31:33, “ For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will [...]

The Conflicted Life | Romans 7: 14-8:4

Introduction When I was younger, I was a working musician.  When I first picked up an instrument, I could generate some music with it, but it was not a very skillful sound.  I played a lot of wrong notes and in order to improve, I needed to learn how to play more right notes and [...]

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