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:

After Death
Homecoming Service
Luke 16:26-31
08/09/2026 AM​
Jerry W Arnold

 Sunday Evening Sermon:

Warning and Disaster
Jeremiah 29:15-19
​08/02/2026 PM
Jerry W Arnold

Wednesday Bible Class

The Issue of Faith
2 Peter 1:12-21
​08/05/2026
​Jerry W Arnold
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MY CHRISTIAN GROWTH SEEMS TO BE DORMANT

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It will appear that I am supporting the positive mindset position that many promote today. However, I do not, and will not, support that position. The positive mindset positions, and the self-esteem positions taken today by many are totally unscriptural. Therefore, it must be clearly understood, that these next few lessons do not reflect either position.

A guilty conscience and other negative emotions can surely turn out the lights on your happiness. And not only can negative emotions take life from your years, they can take years from your life – not to speak of friends and all the other things that you lose also.

In studies on hostility it has been shown that continuing hostile feelings can lead to all types of illness, and early death. It has been said, “When you are right, you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are wrong, you can’t afford to lose it!

Today’s emotional pressures are gigantic. Coping with hostilities, competition, financial stress, family demands, traffic jams, health problems, violence and crime puts staggering demands on fragile emotions.

There is no way we can make emotional pressure evaporate, and one thing is for certain – either you master your emotions or your emotions will master you. I read recently where a little boy was given the opportunity to choose a puppy for himself from a litter of puppies. His excited eyes fell on one wagging his tail. The young lad replied and said, “I want the one with a happy ending.” In these next few lessons, I pray, they will help you cope with the pressures that life has brought your way.

I have in my study a book about the chancellor of Germany during the First World War, his name was Otto Von Bismarck. Adolph Hitler was profoundly influenced by him. Hitler was so overcome by Bismarck’s bitterness and resentment that he looked upon it as a virtue and not a vise. Hitler desired to be like Bismarck. Hitler’s and Bismarck’s life both ended as being known as villains. And it was bitterness and resentment that lead to their demise.

The book says that Bismarck, “When he had no immediate cause for hate, he would dredge up a skeleton from the past and chew on it for a while.”

Another section of the book says, “One morning Bismarck proudly announced, ‘I have spent the whole night hating.’ So, the weight of resentment eventually broke his health. He grew a beard to hide the twitching muscles of his face. Jaundice [yellowish discoloration of tissues and bodily fluids], gastric ulcers, gallstones, and shingles wracked his body. . . . When a publisher offered him a large sum of money for his life’s story, he began to write with a reckless disregard for truth, heaping hate on men and women long dead. Hatred was Bismarck’s passion. He died at eighty-three, an embittered, cynical, desperately lonely old man, miserable and self consumed.”

Bitterness is a blight, an emotional cancer which consumes many a person who once had the bloom of happiness upon them. Behind nearly every church squabble, bitterness is lurking somewhere in the shadows. Bitterness and resentment reveals itself in a person who is marked by a sharp and bitter wit that is cutting, critical, and faultfinding. Unfortunately, people like that are in the churches, in our places of work, and maybe in our homes.

All of us should ask ourselves: Am I bitter? Or, do I have the seed of its bitter fruit in me? The embittered person has trouble facing his bitterness because, most of the time, he truly believes his sour outlook on life is justified. Thus, bitterness is deeply ingrained and not easy to solve.

​The negative adjectives of bitterness seem endless: horrible, hellish, and hurtful just to list a few.

​Scripture: King James Version: Hebrews 12:14-15.

Jerry W. Arnold
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 Posted: 08/09/2026

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"What is the Doctrine of Sanctification- Does it Teach Sinless Perfection?"

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Why Does God Send People to Hell? ​

It may surprise you, but nowhere in Scripture does it say that God sends people to hell. Jesus did say, “… fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).

Jesus did teach that God has the power of eternal destruction on a soul; but He nowhere taught that God sends people to hell.

God desires men to live and be forgiven. In fact, “… As I live, saith the LORD GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die …” (Ezekiel 33:11).

Furthermore, Peter said, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).

Some say that Romans 9:22 teaches otherwise – God does send people to hell. But listen to the verse they use: “What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction.”

Their error can be found in the phrase “fitted to destruction.” They commit two grave errors with this phrase: first, they take out of context vv. 1-29; and second, they misinterpret the phrase. Their position is that God has determined to send some to hell – they are fitted for it. But that is not what that phrase means at all.

The phrase “fitted to destruction” means they “are ripe for destruction because of their own actions.” Scholars of the Greek language tell us that the verb here is passive and God isn’t even in on it. These people are fitted to destruction because of their own rejection of the truth.

One writer said it like this, “God accepts the responsibility of salvation and gives man all the responsibility of damnation. Always in Scripture that’s man’s responsibility.”

I think Jesus said it best:

“And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life” (John 5:40).

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not” (Luke 13:34).

“He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

​But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God” (John 3:18-21).

It isn’t God sending people to hell; man does that himself. When men refuse Jesus Christ they are sending themselves to hell.
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​Jerry W. Arnold
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Posted: 08/09/2026
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By C.S. Porter
If you have ever asked any of these questions, we encourage you to click here and read how C.S. Porter has answered these questions.

After you've accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior, what should you do next?
How has God enabled us to grow as newborn Christians?
Who is God?
What is the Trinity?
How do I share God's gift with others?
What happens when we are saved?
Does God want us to pray?
If I am saved, do I still need forgiveness? 
Should I be involved in a church?
Do I need to be baptized?
What about taking communion?
How do I share God's gift with others?
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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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