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:

Message: Babylon Is Fallen
Scripture: Revelation 14: 8-11
Posted: 8/9/22

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Sunday Night Sermon:

The Promise
Part 2
Acts 1: 1-5
​Posted: 8/2/22

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Weekly Pastor's Pen:

THE ASCENSION

In Luke’s opening words to Theophilus in Acts chapter one, he said, “The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, Until the day in which he was taken up …” (Acts 1:1-2a).
 
Then later on in the same chapter, Luke records these words:  “And when [Jesus] he had spoken these things, while they [the apostles] beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.  And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men (angels) stood by them in white apparel;
 
Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven” (Acts 1:9-11).
 
Three times in this short section of Scripture, Luke uses an important two word phrase:  “taken up.”  Those two little words refer to the Ascension of Jesus Christ; and in His ascension Jesus was taken up to a specific place for a specific purpose.
 
The place to which Christ ascends is the right hand of the Father. 
 
The writer of Hebrews said, “Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum:  We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens” (Hebrews 8:1). 
 
From that seat Christ is enthroned as the rightful King of the universe.  Peter declared: 
 
“Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him” (1 Peter 3:22).
 
When the angel spoke and asked the apostles the question “… why stand ye gazing up into heaven?”  He also said, “… this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11).
 
The last phrase spoken by the angel in verse 11, triggered something afresh in the apostles.  They were totally different after this; and it was not their separation from Jesus that was different, it was their understanding.
 
They now understand that Jesus’ departure did not mark the end of His redemptive work on their behalf.  It marked the beginning of a whole new dimension of His work.

One aspect of that work was His entering into the Holy of Holies to continue His ministry as our great High Priest.  Paul in giving instruction to Timothy concerning prayer in the church said,
 
“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5).
 
And again the writer of Hebrews said, “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
 
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
 
Let us therefore come boldly [with confidence] unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:14-16).
 
There was a day in which the Ascension of Jesus Christ was a very important subject within the church, but in our day most do not understand the full measure of the Ascension, and some have very little concern about the Ascension of Jesus Christ at all.
 
Jerry W. Arnold
Posted: 8/9/22

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Weekly Bible Study Sermon:
St. John Chapter 18

The Trials of Jesus
John 18: 12-27
​Posted: 8/9/22

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"God Is with Jacob"

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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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