The Power of God that Transforms Life Ezra 6:13-22
The God of the Bible is a powerful God who is mighty to save His people; the Lord of all creation who works all things for His people in accordance with His will....
Sibling Rivalry. Divine Lineage. Genesis 4-5
19-1124: A hard heart toward God produces unlimited wickedness, but the heart surrendered to God produces compounding glory. The chapters immediately following the fall of humanity demonstrate the rapid, expansive and pervasive spread of sin. This is graphically seen first in Cain’s murder of Abel. Sin does not wait to drive its slave to...
True Liberty, part 2: free to pursue a greater reward. 1 Corinthians 9
16-0320: Christians sacrifice rights of liberty to serve for a greater reward in faithful witness. Pastor Lane explains how Paul enlarges what we must be willing to sacrifice from not only freedoms, set forth in 1 Corinthians 8, but also rights in order to serve God’s mission faithfully. Three facets of Paul’s ministry help...
Worship to Witness Isaiah 9:1-7
15-1115: Pastor Lane begins a new series entitled Worship to Witness: God’s Son given so the world may know. God sent His Son to be the Savior of the world. We must go and tell the world of the Savior that lives. In this introductory message Pastor Lane provides three motivations to move true...
Revive us, O Lord. (Part 2)
This post is the second of a three-part series. The first post is here. Lukewarm religion, a.k.a. “cultural Christianity,” is the cancer of the modern church. This acceptable normalcy for too many churches and Christians continues unabated as more people get caught in its clinches and pastors treat it as normal. There are advantages, after...