If you’ve been with us for a while, you know that we’re closing in on the end of our late-summer worship series called ‘Christian’. One more message next week and we’ll finish up this series. But today’s message, if you haven’t caught it in your bulletin, is entitled ‘Loopholes’. And it’s titled ‘Loopholes’ because I thought we should talk about ‘loopholes’ today. You know what a loophole is, don’t you? It’s a way of getting around a rule or a law so that you can get what you want. And...
We’re moving into the 3rd part of our ‘Christian’ series today, where we’ve been talking specifically about the word ‘Christian’—what it means and doesn’t mean. And we’ve learned together that the word Christian is a bit ambiguous—only mentioned 3 times in the NT, nobody ever really defining it, so you can basically make this word mean whatever you want it to mean! That’s why there are ‘Christians’ on every side of every issue; even though you’re ‘Christian’ and believe similar things, it just doesn’t seem to make much difference in...
At this time of year when ‘resolutions’ are being made for the days ahead, I felt it appropriate to begin here: One of our goals as believers should always be what Paul urged those in his care—to mature in the faith. In other words, we are in continual need of ‘growing up’ in the faith—growing closer to God through worship, through study, and through prayer and other spiritual disciplines (means of grace), that we might grow to be exactly what God created us to be. Our life of faith is...
