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Who can save us from our sins? Who can forgive us of our sins? What will cleanse us from our sins? The greatest hurdle in life is that of our sins, our sin problem, our love of sin. Is everyone in this category? Surely for Rom.3:23 shows, “All have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God.” Rom.5:12, states,” Therefore, ju…

Christ Our All-Satisfying SacrificeJesus Christ, our everything. Our portion, our delight, our deliverer, our redeemer, our Passover, our treasure, One who does all things well. He is the One in whom has been given all authority on earth and in heaven, One who lays down His life, and One who can take it up again, the One who is the first and the la…

Knowing ourselves from the epistle of James, 5:16,”The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much, “ and that in 1Peter5:8, our great adversary is mentioned, “Be on the alert, your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour,” we need to pray to keep our church vibrant, aliv…

Behold, now is the time to engage in decisions to carry out in the year ahead, no time like the present. The days may go by slow, but the years fly by, and before you know it, the year will have passed us by. We talked last time about beating a path to the Word, making a b-line for the Bible, hearing from God first thing in the morning before we he…

Happy New Year to you all, we are all again at the beginning of a new start, a time to look back and atime to look forward. What will we do with the next 365 days, Lord willing that we would be here inthat length of time? We all have that same length of time of 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Whatwill we do with that time? The Psalmist reminds us…

by Pastor Ross Layne Sometimes we just need to see the straightforward teaching of God's word.  The moral depths to which the society of our day has sunk is such that many cannot even imagine that God has anything serious to say about sex.  The sexual revolution that has taken place in our time, however, has not revolutionized God. …

    Behold, this is quite a word. It is probably not a word we use very much in our day, but wow, it really gets our attention when we see it used in the Scriptures. Those authors really wanted to draw our attention to something by using it. It is used hundreds of times in our Bibles, as early as the first book in Genesis 1:29, and a…

Everyone is devoted to something or someone, or so they say. DEVOTION to someone or some sport or some hobby or some interest or another is typical of all people to one degree or another. Everyone has certain interests that they tend to gravitate to spending a lot of time at. Are there some things or someone that we should be most devoted to? Is th…

Last week we saw that sanctification is a break from our sinful past, turning by the power of the Holy Spirit from being a slave of sin to a slave of righteousness, Romans 6:16,18. We primarily see it as a continual state of holiness, improving from one degree to the next. The Westminster Confession of Faith in question #70, and #74, refer to justi…

A big theological word, not one to be scared of, but one to know of, and one surely to be a possessor of. A word that is used some 10 times in the New Testament, the Greek word, Hagiasmos, often translated as the word holy and, not to be confused with justification, that of God's declaring the sinner righteous, sanctification is God's renewing and …