Reacting to Stress: Control, Depression, or the Calm of the Holy Spirit

Your beauty … should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 1 Peter 3:2,3 Peter is describing the attitude of Sarah and other godly women in the Old Testament. Did Sarah have this gentle quiet spirit because she lived [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Can we trust God?

No, actually we cannot depend on God’s help, support and comfort. From our point of view, God cannot be trusted. How can I say this and still base my life as a Christian on that very trust?  The answer is tied into the fact that God is a God of covenant, but we, in our fallen [...]

The Path of Trust, the Path of Fear

As Christians, we have a desire to live a life of trust in God.  We know from the Word of God that this is God’s plan for us, and we never intend to live otherwise.  But the Devil tricked Eve and Adam, and he easily seduces us too.   This teaching from our Senior Pastor [...]