Redeemer Church of Waterford

Only those believers who persevere and endure to the end will be finally saved. The paradox in our perseverance is that God keeps us from falling but we keep ourselves in the love of God. Keeping ourselves requires discipline and effort on our part by the enabling of God through His grace. What does this discipline and effort look like in practical terms?

Only 8% of Americans say they have had a spiritual conversation in the last year. 74% of Christians say that they have had less than 10 spiritual conversations in the last year. The research is telling: believers in Jesus aren't talking about Jesus, God, or the Bible, either among themselves or with their unbelieving neighbors. Psalm 107 offers practical steps to talking spiritually with others.

How are we to treat the body after the soul is departed? The church's approach to death, the funeral service, and the treatment of the remains has been more and more shaped by pagan cultural influences than by Scripture. While the Bible does not prohibit cremation, the language of the Bible most certainly moves in the direction of burial of the dead rather than the burning of the dead.

The Bible views the life of the believer as characterized by both suffering and glory. The extreme of suffering is death and the extreme of glory is the resurrection from death. What is the biblical view of death? How are we to think about our own deaths?

The children of Israel learn, as must we, that it is in the most difficult of circumstances from which God provides us with the exceeding riches of His grace in the unlikeliest of places.

How does God respond to the defiance of His people as they rebel against Moses and Aaron in tempting God to provide bread for them in the wilderness?