The church’s mission is total victory. This is because “all authority in heaven and on earth” is Christ’s. In Judges, we are introduced to two failures which prevented the children of Israel from attaining total victory over the inhabitants of Canaan. The same two failures still exist as a plague today, acting as a hindrance […]

Sanctification necessarily follows sanctification. Believers help each other in the sanctification process. Sanctification is achieved by obedience to God’s law. “If you love me you will keep my commandments”. Fellowship, prayer, hearing and studying and word, and the sacraments are all commandments of God and means of grace in the life of a believer. But, […]

Carnal Christianity is a dangerous doctrine. Did it begin in the 1800’s with Charles Finney and “modern revivalism”? No, it did not. In fact, Jude addresses carnal Christianity as early as the first century! Jude speaks of “spots in the love feast” and “hidden reefs”. Carnal Christians are both. Check out this amazing sermon as […]

A sermon by Pastor Derek Johnson on Jude 8-11.  

John Knox used to speak about the “battle” In fact, it was the most-used word in his vocabulary. It is interesting to note that in the last 200 years Christians have thought little about “battle”. Perhaps this is because they bought into the myth of neutrality and embraced the idea of “no conflict”. But what […]

Truth is an inherently “Christian” (perhaps more appropriately, “theist”) position. Truth assumes absolutes. Absolutes assume an absolute. There is only one absolute: God. God defines what is absolute, and, despite what our atheistic culture would have us think about the “relativistic nature of reality”, reality is absolute. Truth is absolute because God is absolute and […]

2016 “guest” speaker for the Gideons, Joshua Lambert on the all-encompassing reach of the gospel of the Kingdom.    

The soteriology (doctrine of salvation) of the scripture of one of predestination and justification by faith. But, it doesn’t end there. Justification is necessarily followed by sanctification. Sanctification is rendered impossible without justification. Full sanctification is glorification. No one truly called fails to be glorified.

I Peter 4:8-9 says that as Christians, we should “above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling“. Hebrews 13:2 echoes this sentiment: “Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Ministry through […]

Hebrews 11:25 admonishes us to, “not neglect to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.” What does the meeting of Christians exactly mean? Listen and Learn.