Reconciling Our Hearts to the Truth
| Hope series | What is hope? How is hope different from faith? What are the benefits hope has to offer? Did you know that hope leads to joy and enables patience? I wouldn’t mind a little more joy and I know I could use a little more patience. As we kick off this new …
| Modern Idolatry series | Society Can Be an Idol We’ve seen that God alone defines good and evil. Anytime we decide for ourselves what’s good and what’s evil, we repeat the sin of Adam and Eve when they ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Anything we allow to subtly …
| Modern Idolatry series | We don’t often find ourselves tempted to bow down to a wooden statue but make no mistake, idolatry is very much alive and well in our culture. Idolatry happens any time that we allow something other than God to take on one of His roles in our life. As I’ve …
| Modern Idolatry series | More Than Righteousness There are some verses in the Bible that challenge our use of the word “good”. I think we often get confused, thinking that “good” is the same as “righteous”. There are so many verses in the Bible that show us that there’s so much more to the …
| Modern Idolatry series | Sometimes it feels like the Scripture is full of paradoxes. Two things we know are true, that operate side by side but are hard to reconcile. Among the most fundamental of these is works and faith. We know that we are saved by grace through faith and not by our …
| Pro-Life Family Planning guide | Pro-Life Family Planning Intro Understanding Fertility Pro-Life Options for Family Planning Is Hormonal Birth Control Pro-Life? Timing Intercourse to Avoid Conception Birth control works using 3 mechanisms of action: Preventing ovulation (before conception) Hindering sperm reaching egg through in crease in cervical mucus (before conception) Preventing implantation through thinning …
| Pro-Life Family Planning guide | Pro-Life Family Planning Intro (this page) Understanding Fertility Pro-Life Options for Family Planning Is Hormonal Birth Control Pro-Life? Timing Intercourse to Avoid Conception Maybe you’re asking yourself, why are we talking about this? Does God really care about what we do for birth control? Does our faith really matter …
| Don’t Judge…Help series | What do we do when we see someone struggling with sin? In this series we’ve focused on Matthew 7, where Jesus calls us first to not simply pass judgement on them, to condemn them for violating God’s law. But He didn’t stop at what we were called to NOT do, …
| Don’t Judge… Help series | How do we reconcile love with judgment? How do we balance mercy and judgment? Are we even supposed to make judgments? We’ve been in a series exploring Jesus’ instruction in Matthew 7 to “Judge not, that you be not judged.” In exploring this passage, Jesus illustrates this command by …
| Don’t Judge… Help series | As we talk through Jesus’ instruction in Matthew 7 to not judge others, we left off with this verse last week: First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. Matthew 7:5 In the …