The salvation of Jesus Christ begins with a death; not without tragedy, but much more with purpose and profound effect on humanity. Good Friday 2019.

How can a Christian endure in faith until the end? The big answer is that God preserves us, but what we might not understand is that He does so through actively remaining the object of our worship and obedience.

Moses and the burning bush tells us something unmistakable: that all man's attempts to secure freedom are counterfeit to what only God can do, which is to provide sacred salvation. "Remove your shoes, for the ground upon which you stand is holy". Why? Because God declared His intent to save.

Does the Christian faith preserve the meaning of Moses? In this passage, the promise and judgement are both in view, and are both fully expressed in Jesus Christ.

Tim provides an account of the description facing a minister of the gospel in the church as to his priorities and convictions, and the purpose of it all: to know the riches of the glory of Jesus Christ who is in us.

When we face anxiety or insecurity about our position before God, we do no better than to look at the history of Israel - beginning with Abraham - which answers this question: what does God expect of me?

This is part of the ongoing exploration of what it means to belong to the local church, in partnership with Christ to bring about His mission. His mission is to redeem and reign, ours is to advance liberty in Smiths Falls under His reign. This track includes an introduction to church membership, followed by a Q&A.

When the Church cares for its own, she becomes the city on a hill, the city of God as Jesus noted - and that inevitably leads to a clear witness, even conflict, before the city of man

Growing pains always accompany growth, especially in a spiritually healthy church. But the Apostles wisely use a conflict to establish good working order in the church, and everyone ends up happy and the church grows even deeper and larger.

As God's people grow into a practical community called the Church, God makes an unmistakable statement on the effects of secret sin. The end game is for the Church to exist as a city on a hill, purified of sin and shining into a dark world.