Living Stones Christian Church - East Bay

When our own heart accuses us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things — assurance rests on his verdict, not ours, and that confidence is what frees us to actually obey and receive.

Love isn't a feeling we claim, it's action we take — laying down our life for another is the proof we've passed from death to life; refusing to help a brother or sister in need is Cain's path, not a lesser version of love.

Because we're born of God, sin isn't our identity — and one day we'll be made like Christ when we see him as he is.

What we need is more than just vacation or even temporal Sabbaths, but to truly rest in Christ—a rest made possible by the finished work of the Cross. This puts to rest the inner impulse, set by culture, family of original, hear idols to keep striving, seeking, consuming and possessing in the first place

Loving the world crowds out love for the Father — only what's done as God's will remains forever.

God is light with no darkness in him, so we deal with sin through honest confession, not denial — and Jesus is our advocate when we fail, calling us to walk as he walked.

John testifies to what he saw and touched in Jesus so we can share real fellowship with God — and he tells us plainly why he's writing: so we can know we have eternal life.

still need the Sabbath in our world today

The Shallow End: The world's counterfeit for identity is reputation — assembling a self from achievements, status, and approval, which is always one failure away from collapse. The Deep End: An identity built on the Lord alone is the only one that cannot be taken, cannot age, and cannot be found out — which means you have nothing left to prove.

The Shallow End: The world's counterfeit for meaningful work is effectiveness — work only counts when it's moving the needle in measurable, demonstrable ways, which makes most faithful human labor invisible and therefore worthless. The Deep End: Because Christ is raised, every act of faithfulness has permanent eschatological weight regardless of measurable effectiveness — the resurrection is the guarantee that nothing done in the Lord disappears.