Today is the day I am usually finishing up the prep work for my Thursday night class. The topic of this evening’s teaching comes in the form of a question. What we will be discussing is “For Whom Did Christ Die”? The way a person answers that question has serious consequences...
2 Thess 1:4 “Therefore, among God's churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.” This weekend we start the book of Second Thessalonians. We will begin with a look at the first five verses of chapter one in a study I called...
2 Corinthians 3:3 "And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts". One of the things that take up quite a bit of time for a pastor is answering questions...
I wanted to wish you all a joyful and safe New Year! I pray that 2016 will be a fantastic year for you growing in the grace and knowledge of Jesus. Our desire at CBC is that we will all grow in love, unity and maturity as we press on together towards the high calling of life in Christ. Tonight...
I read an interesting article this morning and wanted to share the main point of it with you as maybe you can relate to it. Are you having a Christ-centered Christmas? Imagine for a moment, that you have never heard the Christmas story and you visit a shopping mall on December 22. You listen to...
J.I. Packer said, “The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity – hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory – because at the Father’s will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a...
It's expected for children to seek protection when they get afraid, but we rarely think of strong fighters as needing a place of refuge. That said, Scripture tells us King David sought that exact thing. From the time Samuel anointed him as the future King of Israel, he moved to the palace to...
I have had several members ask about the tragedy up the freeway in San Bernardino yesterday. People are looking for some sort of understanding so that they can hopefully find peace. I would like to suggest an alternative since the Bible tells us that God gives the peace that passes...
1 Thessalonians 5:18 Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.Paul urges us to be thankful in every situation and circumstance we encounter. This isn't restricted to just one day in the Fall but EVERY day and EVERY circumstance. Yes, even the tough...
He saw a gleam of grace in the darkness of the disaster. It is then that he turned to his wife and called her “Life.” Gen 3:20 “The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.” I was doing some reading in Genesis this week and was fascinated...