The Westminster Shorter Catechism asks a critical question of all of us today i.e., “What is the chief end of man?”. The answer – “Man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever.”  You see, in contrast to the monastic division of life into sacred versus secular (perpetuated by the Roman Church), the reformers saw that […]

For centuries people have been trying to “reach” God through religious systems, works, priests, or charismatic leaders. The fact, however, is, there is no person, government, or system that can (nor should) ever take the place of the Savior of the World.

This Sunday we looked at Sola Fide, Faith Alone. We looked at three areas of faith: The Christian life is a life of faith, secondly, while faith is important, works are a part of God’s plan, and finally, our faith can and should increase.

On Oct 31st, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his history-making 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg cathedral cementing a stake in the ground for the authority of God’s word and the power of the gospel of grace!   In 1772, a former slave trader named John Newton penned the words of the most famous […]

Luther’s (and scripture’s) claim is that every person should read the Bible for themselves and that only the Scripture itself is inspired. And while issues of authority, inerrancy, clarity, and sufficiency of Scripture were under the microscope in Luther’s day, the sad truth is, these issues are being challenged today too. In fact, when we consider the “authority […]

We have started a “Series Within A Series” as we prepare to celebrate Reformation Month. We started off this series by looking back at what the Reformation was & why it was needed in the first place and then compare that reality with the state that the church currently finds itself in today. All of which, will prepare us to ask ourselves the question, “Is it perhaps time, […]

Often, when we look at the crazy times that we are currently living in, we have the tendency to think that our issues of today are so rare & unique (to us) that no one else in history would be able to understand what we are going through.  However, when we unpack scripture, we come to realize that perhaps […]

Last Sunday we looked at the value of Community or put another way, the “local” view of The Church. This week we expanded our view of “Community” by unpacking the value of the “The Church” (the global one).  In particular…What is the doctrine of “The Church”? Why do we need “The Church”? What is the role of […]

We returned to a series that we have touched on before (and will continue to return to as we grow and mature as a church) – Kingdom Values. These are values that are critical to us in order to maintain a Kingdom Heart in the midst of a crooked generation. The Kingdom Value of “Community” is the first value we started with and […]