Rev. Osborne begins a two week study on Change.

Maybe for us today the issue is not what the act of God is, but that God is. Maybe what's needed in your life and in my life is not the particular answer to a prayer or a particular miracle that we are seeking, but it is to experience the living God and His glory.

Maybe for us today the issue is not what the act of God is, but that God is. Maybe what's needed in your life and in my life is not the particular answer to a prayer or a particular miracle that we are seeking, but it is to experience the living God and His glory.

I know there is debate about the founding fathers being Christians or theists, most of that being an attempt to rewrite history away from this nation's Christian roots; but regardless of what any one founding father was, they were in fact respecters of God and the Bible. They looked publicly and purposely to God and the Bible for guidance as they built this new nation. While they built a nation that would respect people of all faiths, they uniquely promoted Christianity and the Scriptures as a guide for this nation. That is not historically debatable. This is why July 4 is not only celebrated in society, but in church.

I know there is debate about the founding fathers being Christians or theists, most of that being an attempt to rewrite history away from this nation's Christian roots; but regardless of what any one founding father was, they were in fact respecters of God and the Bible. They looked publicly and purposely to God and the Bible for guidance as they built this new nation. While they built a nation that would respect people of all faiths, they uniquely promoted Christianity and the Scriptures as a guide for this nation. That is not historically debatable. This is why July 4 is not only celebrated in society, but in church.

As come to Romans 11 today we finish a major section of Romans, chapters 9-11. In this section we have asked the question, "What about God's plan for the Jews". Jesus was the Jewish Messiah, and this thing we call the church started out with Jews, but as it was now growing by Gentiles. Fewer and fewer Jews were making up the church. Was God done with Jews? What about His promises? If they did something to undo God's promises, does that mean we can do something to undo God's promises?

As come to Romans 11 today we finish a major section of Romans, chapters 9-11. In this section we have asked the question, "What about God's plan for the Jews". Jesus was the Jewish Messiah, and this thing we call the church started out with Jews, but as it was now growing by Gentiles. Fewer and fewer Jews were making up the church. Was God done with Jews? What about His promises? If they did something to undo God's promises, does that mean we can do something to undo God's promises?

The job of a dad is to so effectively represent God before their kids that when they realize dad is not God, they immediately fall in love with and trust their heavenly Father. That's big. Let's go simpler. Be the kind of father that the heavenly Father doesn't have to overcome.

The job of a dad is to so effectively represent God before their kids that when they realize dad is not God, they immediately fall in love with and trust their heavenly Father. That's big. Let's go simpler. Be the kind of father that the heavenly Father doesn't have to overcome.

God's sovereignty should result in our rest and security. And as good as that might sound, someone could ask, "Are we just pawns to the story God is writing?" Is there any real choice here? Are the elect ushered off to heaven and the unelect to hell? It is God's choice and that's it? Can man be anything but a pawn in God's sovereign rule?