Yesterday in Church we celebrated Sanctity Of Human Life; one of our members is the Director of Carenet of CNY. She talked about Carenet and all they do for the work of the Lord… She shared a video and had a former client, who also regularly attends our Church give her testimony and it was powerful… She talked about how she went to Carenet pregnant and decided to have her baby. You could see…
The Osteen Moment — Your Own Moment Will Come Soon Enough… By Albert Mohler. Joel Osteen found himself forced to answer a question that every Christian — and certainly every Christian leader — will be forced to answer. When that moment comes, and come it will, those who express confidence in the Bible’s teaching that homosexuality is a sin will find themselves facing the same shock and censure from the very same quarters. Read…
“The opposite of Truth is not Error. The opposite of Truth is SIN!” Adrian Rogers
“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” -J.S. Bach
And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. Mark 8:34-35 All unannounced, and mostly undetected, there has come in modern times a new cross into popular evangelical…
“The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.” Martin Luther
Salvation by faith does not eliminate good works per se. It does away with works that are the result of human effort alone (Ephesians 2:8). It abolishes any attempt to merit God’s favor by our works (Ephesians 2:9). But it does not deter God’s foreordained purpose that our walk of faith should be characterized by good works (Ephesians 2:10). John MacArthur The Gospel According to Jesus,
Works are an evidence of true faith. Graces are not dead, useless habits; they will have some effects and operations when they are weakest and in their infancy… This is the evidence by which we must judge, and this is the evidence by which Christ will judge… Works are not a ground of confidence, but an evidence; not the foundations of faith, but the encouragements of assurance. Comfort may be increased by the sight…
Today the temperature outside this morning at 3:17 am in Central New York where I live is -18… I can’t remember when the last time it was that cold out. It wasn’t as cold yesterday morning…. but it was cold, and it didn’t keep people away from our Sunday School class on Romans. First let me say I was very pleased to see more people and new faces… Not that it matters, but I…
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