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Faith Is Hope In Action

FAITH is HOPE in ACTIONTop-line and Bottom-line theologyThe Heart of the Gospel• Galatians 3:7-9The Gospel is God’s bottom lineThe Good News is the top line where we anchor our hope Faith Lays Claim to Hope – Isaiah 58:6-12 Faith in Action begins between your ears – Philippians 4:4-9Sow a thought — reap an action.Sow an…

Leaving A Legacy Of Love

“Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13) HCSB] “Dear friends, let us love one another because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know god, because God…

Leaving a Legacy of Hope

“No these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13) HCSB “God commanded our ancestors to teach his word to their children, so the next generation might know them … that they in turn might teach their children so each generation can set its hope anew on…

How Jesus Changes Everything

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the prisoners, to recover the sight of the blind, to release the oppressed and proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” (Luke…

Suffering And The Christian Hope

“I have refined you, but not as silver is refined. Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering.” (Isaiah 48:10) [NLT] There are several possible reasons for Christian suffering that are distinct from the reasons for the general suffering experienced by everyone: “5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?…

Why Do We Need Christmas?

Genesis 3:1-24 [HCSB] The temptation and the fall of man Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from…