The very first church was established on the Day of Pentecost after the Holy Spirit was poured out of the people in Jerusalem. It began a new and dynamic work of God upon human history. Listen to this teaching by Pastor Mark as he speaks of the characteristics of this new community of faith. It is our hope that as you hear, reflect, and discuss this teaching with others, that your heart will be challenged and your priorities will be readjusted to pursue the Lord with a renewed focus.

Job came to God with his questions, demanding answers. When God showed up, he didn’t answer Job’s questions. Instead, God became the questioner: “I Will Question You!” is the title of this sermon from Job 38-42. While God did not answer Job’s questions, he did reveal himself to Job in a new way. This new perspective on God and on life itself was enough for Job. Will it be enough for us?

Life is full of problems. We all know that. But it is how we respond to the problems that makes all the difference. In Nehemiah 1-2, Nehemiah was faced with a huge problem. How did he respond? And what was the result? As we join Nehemiah on his knees in this message (Then I Prayed to the God of Heaven) we not only learn the importance of making prayer our first response (rather than our last resort), but we learn a valuable 4-point outline to guide our praying.

Every human being is a theologian. Everyone has a belief system which includes what we believe (or don’t believe) about God and the unseen, spiritual world. And each of us is faced constantly with the task of making sense of the “stuff of life” in light of our theology. This was the task that faced Job and his three friends; making sense of Job’s tragedy in light of what they believed about God. Chapter after chapter and cycle after cycle the debate continues (Job 3-37). Who was right? Who was wrong? And why? Match your thinking and your theology with theirs in this message entitled: Questions, Questions, Questions!

There is a wonderful phrase found in the Bible. It is the phrase “The Hand of Our God Was on Us.” That is the title for this message, taken from Ezra 7-8. As Ezra led a group of Jews back to Jerusalem on a mission from God, Ezra repeatedly states, “The hand of our God was on us.” What did Ezra and the other exiles experience as a result of God hand being on them? What are the conditions we must meet if we desire God’s hand to be on us? And what should we do in response when we experience God’s hand working in and through us?

This is the first in a series of three messages from the Book of Job. Entitled “Why?”this message from Job 1-2 sets the stage for the rest of the book. The book raises many questions in our minds that begin with the word “Why?” Life itself presents us with many of the same questions. But in this message we will discover that this book was not written to answer our questions. It was written to ask us a question. How will we answer?

While there are many commands to be found in Scripture, one command stands out far above the others. This is the command to love God and to love others. There are actually two commands that Jesus essentially merges into one single command. The fact is, if you want to know who the people are who love God with their whole beings all you need to do is watch for those who are loving people well. Pastor Mark goes on to address 4 factors which prevent us from trusting in God more and making Him the center of our lives.

Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah are four Hebrew young men who are Third Culture Kids in the land of Babylon, while their faith in their God gets tested in three specific ways: Extravagant lifestyle offered, Obedience preferred; Names changed but heart stayed true; Passionate Worship at the risk of their lives. As people in this city: Abu Dhabi, a foreign city in a foreign country, we will go through these same tests. How did they respond? Will we respond as they did?

In this message, Pastor Cam tackles the tough questions of Christian faith and how it relates to the issue of physical health, prayer and the claim that “that there is healing in the atonement.” As the sermon title (Why Am I Still Sick?) indicates, Christians still experience the usual list of human illnesses, including those that end in death. Do we need more faith? Or do we need a better understanding of the Scriptures? Using passages from Romans 8 and 2 Corinthians 4-5, we explore the distinction between the “now” and the “not yet” of the Christian faith and learn to live by faith in the “now” of the Christian life, while we live in hope for the “not yet” of our coming resurrection.