Matthew 22:37-40, And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

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We begin a new sermon series for the month of September this Sunday. This series will focus on these important truths: That we have been chosen by a Great God with a Great Commandment to follow a Great Commission. We are called to this purpose is to accomplish his Great Plan to be His church. Through the teachings of Matthew 22:37-40 and Matthew 28:19-20, we see that plan revealed for us and through this sermon series, we will study those Scriptures to help us to recognize how we should function as Christians individually and as the church together in unity.

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This first week, our theme and message will be centered on worship, celebrating God’s presence in our lives and our church. We come together as a family each week to praise and glorify Him, but in truth, worship is not a weekly event, but a mindset that sees the opportunity to magnify God in all circumstances and through every thing that we might do.

We live in a world that wants to beat men up….

We want to build men up… to bless women and children.

1 Corinthians 16:13-14, Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.

Rule to live by: Remember that before she was your wife / fiancée’ / girlfriend... She was / is His daughter... Joint heir in the Kingdom of God.

2 Peter 3:11-13… Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to His promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

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As we finish our brief run through the book of 2 Peter, we close the book with a look into the third chapter. In it, Peter both encourages his readers with the knowledge and truth that the day of the Lord is coming and that they (we) need to be prepared for it with repentant lives, secured by grace and reflective of the peace of God.

Follow up devotional thoughts from our Band of Brothers Study on August 21, 2024.

Revelation 22:18-21, I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this Book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this Book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the Book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the Tree of Life and in the Holy City, which are described in this Book. He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.

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We live in a world of compromise. You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. We can come to some sort of an agreement, as long as we are both willing to give up a little. It is how deals get done and how agreements get reached.

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It may be how the world around us works, but it doesn’t work that way with God’s truth. God doesn’t accept compromise when it comes to his truth. Jesus says, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” It leaves no room for compromise even when the world around us tells us you have to go along to get along.

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The church must be firm in our conviction to that truth without compromise. To find middle ground may seem convenient or tolerable in the moment, but it is a recipe for spiritual disaster and opens the door for false teaching to gain a greater foothold.

The message from our Family Reunion Fellowship/Worship with Ferndale Baptist Church and New Horizons Christian Church,.

2nd Timothy 2:15, Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the Word of Truth.

Follow up devotional thoughts from our Band of Brothers Study on August 7, 2024.

Luke 22:31-32, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat… but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.

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The world around the first-century church was changing rapidly. The churches of Asia Minor were not just struggling with the persecution and suffering addressed in Peter’s first letter; they also had strife and dissension within their ranks. To stem the tide of heresy and false teaching among the Christians, Peter emphasized the importance of learning and clinging to the proper knowledge of God. This concept was so important to him that the word knowledge appears—in one form or another—some fifteen times in this short, three-chapter letter.

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Believers can create discord in multiple ways, particularly in the area of relationships and theology. To guard against that kind of disagreement—both in our families and our churches—God’s people need to know who He is. Our knowledge of God through His Word is our greatest defense against the contentions that threaten to tear us apart. As Peter wrote: “Be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men… but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:17–18).

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As we launch a new sermon series over the book of 2 Peter, Frank opens up with a message focusing on the truth that God was not absent and that He had not moved on to other projects. It was still His will and plan that were being fulfilled. Even in the face of struggles, God was (and still is) working His plan for us individually and collectively as a church.

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With that in mind, what means are you taking to grow in your faith? Let’s take the time to guard our minds with the proper knowledge of God so that we may not drift off from the path that God has laid out for us

Follow up devotional thoughts from our Band of Brothers Study on July 31, 2024.