Port Orchard Church of the Nazarene

Why be afraid if the only One worth fearing loves you? Often, it's ultimately due to a wrong idea of justice. We sometimes tend to put our wrong idea of justice on God-"If God is truly just, people will get what they deserve." If that's the case, what did Job do? God is more interested in judging the problem, not the person!

A fundamental blindness came over man. Sin began as we began to misread the intentions of God. Knowing this, we can realize that salvation is when God shatters our illusions (the lies) and shows us the truth.

Andre Rabe brings an excellent word clarifying the Truth of the Gospel and how God uses each one of us to convey that truth. When you show love to someone, it is a demonstration of God being "Himself" in and through you.

When Jesus came to Earth, the Bible says in Hebrews that He was "made like us in every way." That means that, at some point or another, Jesus has felt everything we have! Realizing this, we could say that perhaps we've misunderstood Habakkuk 1:13. What if it's saying that, yes, God is too pure to look at sin, what if it means He's too pure to look at it without doing something about it?

Rod Williams teaches that the Gospel is not the failure of some men failing to respond, it is the success of the cross to reconcile all men to Him. So often we have been preaching 'The Failure of Man' as if it was the Good News. There is no Good News until the righteousness of Christ is revealed and the fact that it is available to all men. That's how we have genuine conversions and faith arises.

In Genesis 1, God declares every created thing is good, but mankind was very good. God said, "Do not eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil," because He desired that mankind see the inherent good in created things as He does. Unfortunately, Man believed a lie about themselves and God. When God removed them from the garden, He did it to protect them from becoming unredeemable from eating from the Tree of Eternal Life, not to punish!

Many people confuse God with the angry stepfather who is 'kind' enough to beat our older brother Jesus instead of us; that God's wrath was on Jesus. They believe God is angry and out to destroy. That may be partially true, but as Pastor Jerry points out, we have the reasons all wrong! His wrath has never been directed at us; only that which intends to harm us!

Francois DuToit, author of the Mirror Bible, shares his message: Jesus is God's Language and message to mankind; it is the romance of the ages.

Francois DuToit, author of the Mirror Bible, shares his message: Jesus is God's Language and message to mankind; it is the romance of the ages.

Pastor and Author Brent Lokker shares the truth about God's love as a Father using examples from the Bible and his own life.