Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

“Culpable disturbance of shalom” suggests that sin is unoriginal, that is disrupts something good and harmonious, that (like a housebreaker) it is an intruder, and that those who sin deserve reproach. To get our bearings, we need to see first that sin is one form of evil (an agential and culpable form) and that evil, in turn, is the disruption or disturbance of what God has designed.

Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Joel Putnam, Pastoral Intern

True faith is so contained in Christ, that it, neither knows, nor desires to know, anything beyond him...we ought not to separate Christ from ourselves or ourselves from him.

John Calvin

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Rev Dr Justin McLendon

All you need for a happy life is good health and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

Francis Schaeffer

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

...faith lays hold of what is promised and therefore hoped for, as something real and solid, though as yet unseen.

Philip Hughes

Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

Compulsory survival is a planned and engineered hell.

Ivan Illich

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

God precedes all things, as their Creator, and he will bring all things to eschatological fulfillment. He is the origin and goal of all history. He has the first word, in creation, and the last word, in new creation.

Richard Bauckham

Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

It seems silly that anyone who knows the difference between happiness and pleasure would continue to trade happiness for pleasure. It seems utterly stupid for a person to do something that he knows will rob him of his happiness. Yet we do it. The mystery of sin is not only that it is wicked and destructive but that it is so downright stupid.

R.C. Sproul

Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

What notes are to a musician, and what the alphabet is to a reader, and what numerals are to a mathematician, the fear of the Lord is to a wise man.

Bruce K. Waltke