The Spiritual Bond of Sex, Forgotten in an Unfaithful Society

“Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.” Hebrews 13:4 Why does the Bible teach this? Our Senior Pastor, Dr. Terry Jones, explained, in a recent Braveheart Show, why God created sex: for reproduction, for pleasure, AND because there is a [...]

Jealous Rage, The Devil's Precious Friend

“A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.” Proverbs 14:3 Do you remember the character Gollum from The Lord of the Rings? There was the Ring, the one precious Ring of Power that was never his to own in the first place, but he wanted it back.  Jealous rage, [...]

The Ten Commandments

Recently our Senior Pastor Sylvia Jones has been teaching from the Ten Commandments.  She has reminded us that we do not know or understand these verses well, or have forgotten or ignored them.  So here is a look at them again, with some comments about each command.  Exodus 20: 1-17 (NIV) The Ten Commandments  1 And [...]

Judgement: the Right Way, the Wrong Way

We have it backwards, upside down.  We compare ourselves to others, we compete, we accuse, slander one another, get jealous.  We judge one another and put ourselves under a curse.  This is how the world acts, but there is no place for this in the Kingdom of God. At the same time, we spend far [...]

Forgotten Warfare

The church has forgotten spiritual warfare.  This statement was made by Dr. Terry Jones last week.  He was reading from Romans 8, the wonderful verse “…we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” Romans 8:37 A conqueror is someone who subdues or brings into subjection or possession by force or influence.  There is combat involved. [...]

"Do you love me?…feed my sheep."

“When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these?”        ”Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.”        Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”  Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you truly love me?”        He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know [...]

Sarah's submission, our rebellion

Roads of Sin Many women today are on dangerous roads of sin, of rejection of the Word of God.  I have walked these roads at times, all to my loss.  But the grace of God and the light of Christ has brought me salvation, and I continue to work that salvation out, knowing that I [...]

Flying with Eagles

bald eagle in flight  Surely the Word of God is right, and what our Pastors teach is true, that God wants, and we should have a desire to be all we can be for God.  Jesus gave everything for us.  He was totally focused and dedicated to the one thing God had given him to [...]

Make yourself nothing and shine like a star!

In Paul’s letter to the Philippians, we are reminded to make our selves nothing, humble ourselves, and then we will shine like stars! This is not the pattern of this world, but this world is being destroyed and is fading away, so why should we follow it?   We need to preach to ourselves, like [...]

"the wilderness will rejoice" – Isaiah 35

I love flowers.  There is something amazing and delicate about their fleeting beauty.  It reminds us, especially as women, of our own delicate beauty.  The flowers in the heading of this blog were growing in the Nevada desert one spring by the road side.  All was brown and dry around this little cactus, but there [...]