What We Believe

We rejoice in the fact that “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16; Acts 4:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; 1 Peter 3:18).
 
We believe this salvation is a gift of God’s grace, appropriated through faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ.  This faith is a gift of divine grace, and is not simply knowledge of Jesus Christ, but is an act of personal trust accompanied by the miracles of regeneration and justification, leading to sanctification and glorification.
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Sunday Morning Sermon:

The Judgment of Works
1 Corinthians 3: 10-15
Posted: 1/10/22

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Sunday Night Sermon:

The Silent Killer
Romans 12: 9-21
​Posted: 1/10/22

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Weekly Pastor's Pen:

TEMPTATION
Part Two

The word for temptation in the Greek text is peirasmos.  It is translated by Greek teachers to mean test or temptation.  Tests and temptations are two sides of the same thing.  Life as we know it is full of trials, and each trial is a potential temptation.
 
James gives a very good explanation of how trials turn into temptations.  He writes, “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers [various] temptations [trials]; Knowing this, that the trying [testing] of your faith worketh patience.  But let patience have her perfect [complete] work, that ye may be perfect and entire [fully developed with no defect], wanting nothing” (James 1:2-4).  Later in the same chapter James adds, “Blessed is the man that endureth temptation:  for when he is tried [tested], he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him” (James 1:12).
 
God has a beneficent purpose in allowing us to go through trials.  The trials perfect us [matures us], gives us endurance, and brings us to the point of spiritual completeness.  Peter said, “But the God all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect [complete, mature], stablish, strengthen, settle you” (I Peter 5:10).  God sends us tests but not temptations.
 
James also said, “Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man” (James 1:13).  God himself is never responsible for the solicitation to do evil.  It is our own lust that produces the solicitation to do evil.  Victory in temptation is gained with an understanding of how temptation comes.  It comes when we are drawn away by our own lusts.
 
Scripture:  King James Version:  I Corinthians 10:13; James 1:2-4, 12-18; I Peter 5:10
 
Jerry W. Arnold
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Posted: 1/10/22

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Weekly Bible Study Sermon:
St. John Chapter 15

The Vine and the Branches Part 2
​John 15: 1-11
​Posted: 1/10/22

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"Zacchaeus"

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"What Do We Do About Our Sins?"

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Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.  All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.  I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.  I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.                                                                                                          John 10:7-11

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