What must Waterstone become, in order to be a church that embodies the kingdom of God and gives hope to those both outside and inside the church? Can we see renewal and restoration take place, not wounding and heartbreak? The things we believe Christ is calling his church to are hard things. They aren't easy and not for the faint of heart.

What must Waterstone become, in order to be a church that embodies the kingdom of God and gives hope to those both outside and inside the church? Can we see renewal and restoration take place, not wounding and heartbreak? The things we believe Christ is calling his church to are hard things. They aren’t easy and not for the faint of heart.

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What must Waterstone become, in order to be a church that embodies the kingdom of God and gives hope to those both outside and inside the church? Can we see renewal and restoration take place, not wounding and heartbreak? The things we believe Christ is calling his church to are hard things. They aren’t easy and not for the faint of heart.

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What does salvation mean and how has the church created a gospel story that's efficient but not sufficient?

What does salvation mean and how has the church created a gospel story that's efficient but not sufficient?

What does salvation mean and how has the church created a gospel story that's efficient but not sufficient?

Today we explore the Bible and consider, Are there any contradictions in Scripture? and How does an ancient book speak into my life now?

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“It is a library – a collection of sixty-six separate items, written in three languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek), composed and brought together over a period of more than a thousand years, and containing material of the most varied literary types – written history, personal memoirs, sermons, letters, hymns, prayers, love poetry, philosophical poetry, family trees, visions, Tales, statistics, public laws, rubrics for rituals, inventories, and much else. It divides into two collections, the second dating from a single half-century (hardly more, and perhaps much less) several hundred years after the composing of the first collection ended.” - J.I. Packer, Truth and Power, 64-65.

Today we explore the Bible and consider, Are there any contradictions in Scripture? and How does an ancient book speak into my life now?

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“It is a library – a collection of sixty-six separate items, written in three languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek), composed and brought together over a period of more than a thousand years, and containing material of the most varied literary types – written history, personal memoirs, sermons, letters, hymns, prayers, love poetry, philosophical poetry, family trees, visions, Tales, statistics, public laws, rubrics for rituals, inventories, and much else. It divides into two collections, the second dating from a single half-century (hardly more, and perhaps much less) several hundred years after the composing of the first collection ended.” - J.I. Packer, Truth and Power, 64-65.

Today we explore the Bible and consider, Are there any contradictions in Scripture? and How does an ancient book speak into my life now?

"It is a library—a collection of sixty-six separate items, written in three languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek), composed and brought together over a period of more than a thousand years, and containing material of the most varied literary types—written history, personal memoirs, sermons, letters, hymns, prayers, love poetry, philosophical poetry, family trees, visions, Tales, statistics, public laws, rubrics for rituals, inventories, and much else. It divides into two collections, the second dating from a single half-century (hardly more, and perhaps much less) several hundred years after the composing of the first collection ended." - J.I. Packer, Truth and Power, 64-65.

There is not much division over who Holy Spirit is—the third person of trinity, co-equal, co-eternal with God. The confusion often arises when we try to understand what he does and role he plays in our lives.