PASTOR'S CORNER

Matt 5:33-37   Can you be trusted?   How important is that question to you?   It is our responsibility to present the truth of the Christian faith with boldness, clarity and courage.  But also to defend and stand firm in the Biblical Doctrine taught in Scripture without reservation or compromise.  “For we have the Words of Life”  Truth is absolutely vital considering our present climate, and I’m not talking about the heat or the rain.  According to the Scriptures everything that a Christian does is most important because of what he or she is, and because the effects we have on others.  Truth is the only thing that separates us from the rest of this fallen world.   The truth that says…..   1. God is a God of truth. “The Rock, His work is perfect, for all His ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is He.” Deut 32:4.  David knew this, because why would he write, “My times a...

Col 2:1-7; Eccl 4:7-11   Charles Spurgeon once referred to the local church as “the dearest place on earth.”   Why would he say that? Maybe he was thinking of what Paul said? “ So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.” Eph 2:19-22  What Paul is saying here, is that we are no longer separated from the blessings, because we have been brought near though the gospel. “Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands—that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strange...