Man is always ready and willing to condemn others but Jesus shows us through his forgiveness of an adulterer in John 8 that only those without sin have the right to cast the first stone. We have no condemnation through the forgiveness of Jesus Christ. The greatest motivation for godly living - to go and sin no more - is the knowledge of the for ...…

For those who are laboring and heavy laden here in this world, Jesus gives us an invitation for rest. The struggles of this life can be severe and intense, leaving us weary and heavy laden in this world, but Jesus offers rest for our souls, as we take up our cross, take up his yoke that is easy and his burden is light.…

How can we have stability in a world that is prone to such turbulence? God gives us the prescription for a sure and steadfast anchor to stabilize us here in this world - hope in God. We believe the promises of God and have faith that he will fulfill exactly what he has promised, which will stablize us in the midst of the storms of this life.…

For those that are hungry and thirsty for the things of God, the Lord gives us an open and free invitation to come and revive our souls. This world will not satisfy the soul for the child of God, only the Lord can fill that void. Therefore, the Lord gives us this invitation to revive our souls by coming unto God's buffet of wine and milk.…

After Josiah found the book of the law and had personal repentance, he also shared that message with others. He made a commitment to hold himself accountable for following God's word, but he also made all of Judah make the same commitment too. He purged out all the false worship and idols, and the effect of that was the most fervent worship tha ...…

In Josiah's life, he made great changes to institute revival in Judah. He made some very positive changes purging out graven images and false idols, but he did not fully purge out the iniquity in Judah until he found the word of God. Josiah found the word of God in the house of God and realized how far short Judah had fallen of God's standard. ...…

Josiah instituted a fervent revival in his day in the midst of an abjectly wicked culture. The revival by Josiah displays the characteristics of every authentic, sustained revival in the history of God's people. The primary characteristic of that revival centers around the word of God, a renewed commitment to the reading and implementation of G ...…

Bro. Joe Ott delivers some introductory thoughts on the circumstances surrounding the callings to prophesy to God's people of three of the major prophets. They all display a sense of unworthiness of their calling but God gives them encouragement for God's sufficiency of their calling.

Visiting Minister Elder Tony Lester brings a message reminding us of the great blessings of God in our lives. As we close out this year and look with anticipation towards the upcoming year, we want to have the same perspective of Jesus' command to the healed wild Gadarene, to go home and tell your friends what great things the Lord has done for us.…

In John's vision in Revelation 5, Jesus is depicted as both the Lion of the tribe of Judah but also as a Lamb that had been slain. How can the power and majesty of a Lion dwell in the same body as the gentle meekness of a Lamb led to the slaughter? The answer is that Christ deferred the power of his divinity as the Lion and volunatrily chose to ...…

Visiting Minister Lic. John Morgan Owens brings a message of encouragement due to the hope that we have in Jesus Christ. We all struggle with sin and our natures, but in spite of that warfare we can feel the presence of God in our lives through the power of the Holy Spirit.

The greatest love story ever told is the romance of our husband Christ coming and saving his bride, the church. However, that beautiful bride was in a ruined, dead, and pitiful condition when the Lord found her. But in spite of the dead young lady's condition, God chose to bestow his love upon her, and entered into a covenant of marriage with t ...…

The love of God is amazing, crazy, and radical toward unworthy sinners. The Apostle John conveys this amazement of God's love - what manner of love that God has given us to that he should give the most precious commodity in all the universe, the blood of Jesus Christ, so save such wretched sinners from hell! We must never get complacent or take ...…

Jesus' disciples, after hearing the Lord pray, saw their own inadequacies in prayer and begged the Lord to teach them to pray. Jesus Christ's response was to give them the model prayer for the child of God - after this manner pray ye. Here we find in the Model Prayer from Christ the proper structure and attitude of our prayer life that we consi ...…

As a young child, Samuel, the Lord spoke to him in the night, but he was not yet spiritually discerning enough to determine the word of God. Just like Samuel we need to listen to the Lord, to hear what he has to say to us as we see his guidance and direction. We must also pray but also take the quiet time to listen to the Lord. In our days, God ...…

Visiting Minister Lic. Michael Warren considers true worship in Spirit and in truth from John 4. The Samaritan woman in that chapter tried to restrict worship based on location, but Jesus instead shows the necessity of worship in Spirit and in truth. Not every action that man engages in is true worship. Finally, we consider together the 5 compo ...…

After we pray unto the Lord in our time of affliction, we need to follow Hannah's example and immediately follow that up with a prayer of praise after God answers our prayers. Hannah's prayer of praise also extols the Lord and ends with a prophecy of the coming Messiah, of Jesus Christ the Lord.

When Hannah was in bitterness of soul, in a sorrowful spirit due to her barrenness and afflicting by Peninnah her adversary, where did she turn? Hannah turned to her only source of true comfort, she poured out her soul before the Lord. When the problems and trials of this life weigh us down and burden our souls, we need to unburden our souls by ...…

The kingdom of God that we see prophesied in the Old Testament in Daniel, we see that kingdom coming to full fruition in the New Testament. Jesus gave us parables of the value of the treasure of the kingdom of God, a price so valuable it is worth us selling all that we have to obtain that treasure and that pearl of great price.…

King Nebuchadnezzar was given a very unique dream, depicting the world-wide kingdoms for hundreds of years to come after his Babylonian empire was demised. However, all of those earthly kingdoms were conquered and destroyed by a seemingly inconsequential stone. In the days of the Roman empire, that Stone of Jesus Christ set up the kingdom of Go ...…

2018 Annual Meeting. It's vitally important that we have the proper perspective in God's election and salvation. If we see ourselves properly, as condemned sinners before God justly worthy of eternal judgment, we can fully appreciate God's mercy (God not giving us what we do deserve). But God has not just given us mercy to save us from hell, bu ...…

2018 Annual Meeting. Elder Luke Addison preaches about Christ as the stone which was rejected of the Jews. But then that stone which was rejected became the head cornerstone, the stone which stabalizes and establishes all the other foundation of the Lord's house. To those who believe in the Lord, that stone is precious but means nothing to the ...…

2018 Annual Meeting. Elder Luke Addison presents the rest for the weary pilgrims in the church of God from the story of the competing wives of Jacob, Leah and Rachel. Leah's name means "weary" and we get very weary here in this world, just like Abraham longing for a better country. However, Rachel is presented as a picture of the bride of Chris ...…

2018 Annual Meeting. Congregational Singing from Saturday morning worship service

Visiting Minister, Elder Larry Wise, brings a message about the theme of the image of God interwoven throughout the entire Bible. Man was made in God's image but that image was marred by man's sin. However, in spite of our sins, at the end of time we shall be remade and resurrected into the image of God and conformed to the image of Jesus Christ.…

Oftentimes the most appropriate response in the midst of severe tribulation is to simply relax, be still, and remember who God is and his love and provision for his people. In Psalm 46, we are told to Be still and remember who God - know that I am God. We are told three times in this chapter that God is our refuge and also told three times to S ...…

In response to God's promise to establish his seed forever, David responded in humility, asking who am I to be blessed so tremendously by the Lord. David displays not only here, but in all his life, a humble attitude which caused the Lord to exalt him to serve him as king. If we desire to be used by the Lord, we must display that same humility ...…

In response to David's desire to build the Lord a house, while God prevented him from actually building that, he did give him a tremendous promise of a perpetual kingdom. David's seed - which we know from the New Testament is Jesus Christ - would build a house and a kingdom which would stand forever, which was fulfilled in the establishment of ...…

After the death of Elisha, we see the downward spiral of the nation of Israel, leading ultimately to their Assyrian captivity. Their idolatry began at the beginning of the northern tribes of Israel led by Jeroboam and they continued in that sin of false worship until the fall of those tribes into captivity. They placed their trust in false, gra ...…

From the generations leading up to the kingship of Jehoash, we see how sinful decisions in parenting, in marriage, in friendships, in alliances, all impacted and created a very ungodly culture in Judah. Then, even after the revival after Athaliah in Judah, after the death of Jehoiada, Jehoash begins to forsake his wise counsel and take heed to ...…

Those who make a sacrifice for the kingdom, either short-term or permanent and either voluntary or involuntary, could be prone to pity their condition and live in a miserable state. Instead, we see the promises of God to the eunuchs in Isaiah that they would be given an everlasting name and recognition from the Lord in their sacrifice.…

In our mortal bodies, we cannot comprehend nor imagine the vast power and majesty of Almighty God. God is "all" here in this world, and should be our "all in all" as we live here. Christ is also manifest "in all" of his children; Christ in you the hope of glory. Then, that earnest of the Spirit and Christ that has been put in our heart gives us ...…

As Elisha's servant became overwhelmed after realizing they were surrounded by the Syrian army, we can oftentimes become afraid and anxious when we face formidable obstacles in our lives. In those circumstances, we need to be firmly planted and resolute in faith to trust the power and promise of God to deliver us. After Elisha's servant saw the ...…

When Naaman the Syrian was confronted with a command from the Lord to heal his leprosy, he was initally furious and not willing to follow the Lord's prescription. What was the problem? What Naaman "thought" would occur was different than what the Lord commanded, and when his will didn't match up with God's will, he was wroth. How do we respond ...…

When a Shunnamite woman's son tragically dies, she displays an amazing peace and hope as she says it is well with me and my son. She had a hope of eternal life that gave her an amazing peace even in the midst of an unimaginable tragedy. This woman, and Horatio Spafford the author of the hymn, It is Well with My Soul, show us that God can give a ...…

Even though it was unbeknownst on his part, the high priest Caiaphas gave a very telling and doctrinally precise prophecy of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was expedient for one man to suffer and die instead of the larger nation as a whole suffering the same penalty individually. That is true of the work of Christ - one man as the repre ...…

In Jacob's life, his dream at what became Bethel - the house of God - was a turning point in his life. Jacob saw the ladder, depicting Jesus Christ, as the only connection point and entranceway into heaven. Jacob's repsonse to his revelation gives us profound instruction for how we as well should respond to the knowledge and truth of Christ as ...…

During Paul's penning of 2 Corinthians, he was in great personal tribulation, no rest for his flesh, troubled on every side, external fightings, as well as internal fears. In the midst of that severe affliction, God gave Paul comfort from at least two sources: he sent him a dear friend to minister to him in his need, and he sent him by the hand ...…

Jesus as the Son of God received a command from God the Father to perform the work of salvation for those given unto him in the covenant of grace. There was a distinct, definite group of people that were given unto Christ and the work given unto him was to save those people from their sins. Jesus declared on the cross that he had fully finished ...…

After Elijah's ascension, we see the power of his mantle remains now that it is passed to another man, just as the power of the ministry remains the same though passed from generation to generation. Also, the sons of the prophets were distaught that something bad may have happened to Elijah and wanted to search for him in case. We take comfort ...…

In the moments leading up to the heavenly ascension of Elijah, we see parallels to our anticipation of Jesus' second coming. We need to redeem the time we have leading up the second coming, with an understanding that moment will be unexpected and could come at any time. Look up child of God, for your redemption draws nigh.…

In preparation for war with Syra, kings Ahab and Jehoshaphat consult Micaiah, a true prophet of God, about the Lord's will for their battle plans. We see that there were false prophets who were ready to deceive these kings, and those prophets did not have a true calling or prophesy from the Lord. It's very important that we use good biblical di ...…

When Elijah called Elisha to follow him, we see the example from Elisha of what radical, single-hearted devotion looks like to follow the Lord in discipleship. Elisha radically purged out any hindrance to his following the call of God by slaying his oxen and burning his plowing equipment too. He removed his back-up plan or his rainy day fund to ...…

King David took great comfort and confidence in the Lord as his personal Shepherd. Because of this faith, he did not fear any future lacking, he did not fear any evil even in the valley of the shadow of death, and his cup ran over from God's blessings. If we understand this one bedrock truth, that God is our Shepherd and will always care, provi ...…

The Holy Spirit (particularly the joy that the Spirit exhibits in our life) is our only true source of strength and stability in our lives. Samson was enabled by the Holy Spirit with amazing physical strength, but over time he took that strength for granted and began to rely upon himself instead of the power of God. When we are reminded how tru ...…

Visiting minister Elder Rusty Wise exhorts us towards the necessity of powerful faith in our lives. We trust God's power and provision and have faith that he will mightily strengthen us in the midst of trials. Examples such as Hannah and Peter show us how to trust God and strengthen our faith.

Even after mountaintop experiences, we are prone to discouragement in such a short period of time. Only days removed from the powerful display of God's sovereignty on Mt Carmel, Elijah runs into the wilderness and requests to die after being threatened by Jezebel. We see God's "prescription" for Elijah and ourselves when we get to such a depres ...…

In the midst of a severe drought and wickedness of Ahab's reign in Israel, Elijah displays the power and authenticity of the one, true and living God. On Mount Carmel, the Lord powerful displayed through fire from heaven that he was the true God. Then, Elijah sets the example for effectual, fervent prayer as he prayed consistently for God to se ...…

How do we respond in the midst of tragic circumstances, such as the sudden loss of a loved one? Do we turn on and blame God, forgetting all the blessings and care the Lord has provided for us in the past? Or do we trust God in faith, resting in God's power over death. This morning we look at three resurrection accounts in scripture and how many ...…

There is so much trouble in this world that we cannot avoid, but for the child of God, we cannot let that trouble creep into our hearts. The apostles had much trouble and anxiety on the night of the crucifixion and in the coming days, but Jesus gave them a message of hope and comfort. We can't let the trouble of this world quench the joy and pe ...…