When we hear the word “generosity” we first think about a large amount of money. But generosity is not an amount, it’s an attitude. Our path to generosity isn’t more money, it’s reciprocating to others the generosity God has shown to us in Jesus. When we approach money as belonging to God, we’ll see the […]

Images indicate ownership. Whether it’s your name on a vacant chair, the picture on your phone’s lock screen, a brand on a horse or a portrait on a coin – an image indicates ownership. God has placed His image not on phones, shirts or money, but on people. If we should give back to God […]

In Revelation 21-22, we find something very familiar… we get a sense of deja vu if you will… it’s creation, recreated. C.S. Lewis said, “I believe man once lived in utopia, but does no longer, and that he is always trying to return. The name of his first utopia was Eden…it is part of our […]

Is heaven a real place? Or is it merely symbolic? Wayne Grudem writes, “Stephen did not see mere symbols… It was rather that his eyes were opened to see a spiritual dimension of reality which God has hidden from us in this present age, a dimension which nonetheless really does exist in our space/time universe, […]

The man who is about to sail for Australia or New Zealand as a settler is naturally anxious to know something about his future home, its climate, its employment, its inhabitants, its ways, its customs. All these are subjects of deep interest to him. You are leaving the land of your nativity, you are going […]

Contentment is a feeling or showing satisfaction with one’s possessions, status or situation. The word literally means, “self-sufficiency” but not being independent in terms of not needing God; it’s a trust and a joy that is in God. For many of us, we find our contentment in earthly riches, pursuits, relationships, etc. Let’s look at […]

If the church is going to persevere and keep their eyes on Jesus, we need to be a people who run from sin, who pursue godliness, who fight for truth and take hold of the life we have in Jesus. Scripture: 1 Timothy 6:11-16

Sound Doctrine is a Christian’s starting point for a life of godliness and contentment. The core of sound doctrine is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Sound Doctrine – the Gospel – produces godliness and contentment. Godliness with contentment is great gain. This great gain is eternal joy that begins at the moment of salvation and […]

Philip Graham Ryken said, “part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see, and to ignore what we want to ignore until it’s too late and the damage is done.” The example of slavery is one such blind spot. In 1 Timothy 6:1-2, we’ll walk through Paul’s instructions to Christians […]

Over the last 20-30 years, churches and individual Christians have plunged into short-term and long-term missions like never before. Thousands have been deployed: digging wells, building schools, caring for orphans, conducting medical clinics, erecting homes, doing Vacation Bible Schools, serving in the inner-cities or remote, rural villages. Physical suffering, injustice, poverty and refugees are just […]