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Creator And Sustainer
We can never adequately wrap our brains around the scope of who God is and what He has done. We can, however, walk around in his creation with wonder and awe in our hearts, and diligently study his written Word - for it contains everything he wants us to know about himself and how we should live in his presence. How wonderful to know that He alone is God!
We Are Not Our Own
We live in a world that every day is trying to convince us that we get to choose our own identity, that we are in charge of our own destiny, and that we ultimately get to decide who we are. Nothing could be further from the truth! We do not belong to ourselves, but have a loving and gracious Creator who made us for Himself, and has redeemed us for His own glory. We belong to Him!
3 John: Love and Truth
In this, the very briefest of all the letters in the New Testament, John's passion for truth is exceeded only by his heart of love for the church. It is not some abstract warm feeling for a concept, or an ideal, but rather a very personal and gritty affection for real people (he even names names!) dealing with real issues in a local congregation. May the Holy Spirit use it once again as a tool in our church for building healthy relationships among ourselves as fellow members of the Body of Christ.
2 John: A Solemn Warning
If you see danger approaching someone you love, your first instinct is to sound the alarm! Give out a warning! Such is the urgency of this small letter, written to dearly beloved people by the last surviving apostle. The danger is not immediate or urgent - like an approaching tornado or some other imminent catastrophe. It is rather the slow creeping erosion of lies and deception that causes spiritual dry rot and the eventual collapse of a church. There is a cure! Take warning and live!
Philemon: A Bold Request
Have you ever asked somebody for a huge personal favor? Were you afraid it would be asking too much? Or that you would be turned down? ...that it would be awkward? ...that it might even ruin your relationship to the person you were asking? In his letter to Philemon, the Apostle Paul boldly makes one such huge request. How was it received? The answer: That letter is now part of the Bible!
The Promise
When Adam & Eve broke fellowship with their Creator God, He made them a promise: “The wrong that ruined Eden will one day be made right through one of your offspring.” Down through the ages, generation after generation: to Noah, to Abraham, to Moses, and to King David in Jerusalem, the Promise was renewed and reaffirmed until finally, “The Promise (Word) was made flesh and walked among us, full of grace and truth - Jesus!”
The Gospel Part 3: I’ll Fly Away
A solid hope - that's what we have in Jesus Christ! Ours is a hope that transcends all the trials and suffering of this life because Christ has conquered death itself to secure for us a glorious future in heaven. The grave is not the end; it is only a gateway into the presence of our Creator Redeemer God where we will stand before him dressed in the righteousness of Christ alone.
The Gospel Part 2: Freedom in Christ
In Christ we have been set free! Freedom from sin's prison house gives us the freedom to follow Jesus. Previously, his commands were impossible to obey because we were in bondage to sin. Walking in the Spirit we can now gloriously experience freedom in Christ to more and more love the Lord our God and one another as well.
The Gospel Part 1: The Prison House
Every one of us was born into a Prison House called Sin. We don't even know it until God opens our eyes through Scripture and His Holy Spirit working in our hearts. The first step to getting out of that prison is to recognize that sin IS a jail we can't get out of without Jesus. That's the bad news, and the good news - the gospel.
Good Father
For Christians, "Don't worry. Be happy!" might seem like a totally irresponsible, pleasure seeking, flippant, childish, and selfish way to abandon our God-given duties and responsibilities, but for one thing: our Heavenly Father loves and cares for us! As followers of Jesus Christ, when we make it our first priority to love and obey our Father in Heaven, He gives peace, joy and all the things we need in life because He loves us, and takes good care of us.
God Prepares Us For The Present And The Future
We extend a warm welcome to our guest preacher for June 11, Paul Nasekos. Paul and his wife Jeannette are no strangers to French Camp, having served on staff at FCA prior to working with Child Evangelism Fellowship and more recently with Truth and Grace (T.A.G.) ministry to children.
We are grateful for this opportunity for Paul to minister among us while our pastor is out of town.
Blessed…Like A Tree
"I'm Blessed." What does that mean? We hear people say it all the time! Does it mean I'm happy? I'm wealthy? I'm trouble free? This same word appears frequently in the Psalms and in the Beatitudes of Jesus. Psalm 1 compares a blessed person to a healthy, fruitful tree. Can trees be happy? wealthy? trouble free? No, but they are solid, firmly rooted and secure.
Gideon’s Army
Gideon is famous to us for his dramatic midnight victory with trumpet blasts and blazing torches over the Midianite army encamped by the Hill of Moreh, What we tend to forget is that God reduced his army from 32,000 to 300 troops so that nobody could ever boast of winning that battle by human strategy or strength. When God calls you into His service, He will ruthlessly remove all the resources you have trusted in until you have nothing left but God himself to rely on, and He gets all the glory in the end.
Under His Wings
Starvation and exposure are two things that can kill you. Food and shelter are necessities of life. Is it any wonder then, that the Psalmist should sing grateful songs of praise to the Lord for his provision and his protection. Let us seek his provision. Let us find rest under his wings.
Family Life
We welcome Rev. Lynn Downing to the pulpit this Sunday. Born and raised in French Camp, he is a graduate of French Camp Academy, Belhaven College, and Reformed Theological Seminary. After a long and fruitful ministry in the PCA, he and his wife Dianne have retired in French Camp and are active in the life of our church.
By Faith Looking to Jesus
The heroes of faith - they have their "Crown of Glory." Their race is finished, but they are not yet done! Christ has not yet "handed over the Kingdom to God the Father" (I Cor. 15:24), because the full number of God's elect has not yet been harvested. That is why they are the "great cloud of witnesses" eagerly awaiting the outcome of our faith here in the 21st Century and beyond - as long as it takes! To God be the glory!
By Faith Heroes & Martyrs (Part 2)
This long line of saints and sufferers, stretching back through the Old Testament - are they just water under the bridge, old history, irrelevant and forgotten figures of the past? Not at all! The Bible says that "apart from us" they will not "be made perfect." Jesus Christ is the Savior of all who died under the Law, as he is also the Savior of all who live in HIm by grace! Indeed, they surround us even today as a "great cloud of witnesses," eager to see the successful outcome of our faith, that together with them we might be glorified in Him.
By Faith Heroes & Martyrs (Part 1)
Warriors, prophets, survivors and martyrs alike, and the list goes on. What kept them going? What was their super-power? Was it courage? Endurance? Patience? Their stories are all different, but what they all had in common was faith - not super-heroic faith, but plain and simple trusting faith in the God who always keeps his promises and will make us perfect together with them in the end.
By Faith Rahab
She was morally stained, sexually impure, outcast and despised, but nevertheless a choice instrument in the Lord's hands. Why would God choose Rahab to be an ancestor to Jesus Christ? Why would he choose you? ...or me? ...or anyone? It is because of GRACE, and grace alone.
The Crown and the Cross
The brutal and mocking crown of thorns that Jesus wore to the cross, only magnifies the glory and beauty of that victorious crown of life with which Jesus has been crowned King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We worship the Risen Savior at Easter for what He has done, for who He is, and for the transformation he has wrought in us - to the praise of His glory, Hallelujah!
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