This is an expanded article series of the Walking the Road to Salvation post and The Road: Saved and Sent sermon series. We are sinners saved and sent to share the salvation story. The first four articles in this six article series mostly focused on the saved portion of the subtitle. We’ve walked through the power of the gospel, which is the good news of salvation through Jesus as a way to remind and re-preach the greatest story ever told to a room …
Devotions to Help Guide Your Faith
The Roman Road, Part 4: The Answer
This is an expanded article series of the Walking the Road to Salvation post and The Road: Saved and Sent sermon series. The Roman Road is a way of explaining the good news of salvation using verses from the book of Romans. It’s a simple yet powerful method of explaining why we need salvation, how God provided salvation, how we can receive salvation, and what the results of salvation in this life. The overarching message: We are sinners saved and …
The Roman Road, Part 3: Love for Sinners
This is an expanded article series of the Walking the Road to Salvation post and The Road: Saved and Sent sermon series. Quick Recap Over the past two weeks Kinsley and I have been teaching through a path of scripture commonly known as the Roman Road. The Roman Road is a way of explaining the good news of salvation using verses from the book of Romans. It’s a simple yet powerful method of explaining why we need salvation, how God provided …
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The Roman Road, Part 2: Sin is Serious!
This is an expanded article series of the Walking the Road to Salvation post and The Road: Saved and Sent sermon series. Last week, Guy started us on a series based on the evangelism tool known as the Roman Road, which essentially walks us through some key verses in Romans that explain our need for salvation, how we receive salvation, and the effects of surrendering our lives to Christ. For many reading this, the temptation is to let your eyes and …
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The Roman Road, Part 1: Good Won’t Work
This is an expanded article series of the Walking the Road to Salvation post and The Road: Saved and Sent sermon series. What's Happening Here The Roman Road is a way of explaining the good news of salvation using verse from the book of Romans. It’s a simple yet powerful method of explaining why we need salvation, how God provided salvation, how we can receive salvation, and what are the results of salvation. The purpose of doing this series is …
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Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?
Whether or not Christians should celebrate Halloween is a yearly debate throughout the church world. Most people realize Halloween is a dark, pagan holiday at it's roots. The Bible clearly speaks against seeking out witchcraft and other demonic spirits. But what's wrong with dressing up as fun cartoon characters to walk around the neighborhood collecting candy? As long as that's the plan, probably nothing at all. Personally, I grew up in a …
In the Wait
So Much Waiting! Who actually enjoys waiting? I know I don’t. Patience is not one of my gifts. I want things now and I don’t like to wait for them. When I am hungry and I go out to eat. I will drive to 3 different restaurants to find one with a short wait time. If want to learn a new skill, I better have it perfected overnight! At Walmart I will scout every checkout line to figure out the fastest way in and out so I don’t have to wait. …
5 Not So Surprising Biblical Money Principles to Always Be Working On
What is the foundation of your worldview and how does it influence your finances? That’s a big question. I’ll start at worldview and move toward personal finances. As a local church pastor in small town America, I often find myself in conversations with couples who have completely different world views, but they don’t even realize it. They say things like, “Well, she likes church and the Bible and all that God-stuff, but I’m not really into it…but we …
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The Privilege of Prayer
“Prayer is the opening of the heart of God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him. When Jesus was upon the earth, He taught His disciples how to pray. He directed them to present their daily needs before God, and to cast all their care upon Him. And the assurance He gave them that their petitions should …
Work Cheerfully for the Lord
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” - Martin Luther King Jr. “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an …