Freedom In Christ

Posted on January 23, 2026 by pastormike

Freedom In Christ

There are those who would say that our liberty will just become an occasion for sin.  The full letter of the book of Galatians refutes such a notion and calls it another gospel that in fact is no gospel at all.

Freedom In Christ

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I Will Be With You

Posted on January 15, 2026 by pastormike

I Will Be With You

In our text, Joshua was now taking over the leadership of Israel after the long ministry of Moses.  He could have been easily overwhelmed if all he did was evaluate himself and his new position based upon the past ministry of Moses.

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But God points Joshua to the only one who had the right to judge, the One who placed him in his new position, God Himself. And He left Joshua with a promise, “I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.”

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Make This Year For His Glory Alone

Posted on January 8, 2026 by pastormike

Make this year for His glory alone.

As we start this New Year I would like to remind you that for the believer it is never about us. Our resolutions etc. never bring us to a place we acknowledge that life is not about us but about God.

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The purposes of God thunder across the pages of Scripture.  The Bible is about what God has done, is doing , and will do in the future to His own glory and our benefit.

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The Word Became Flesh

Posted on December 26, 2025 by pastormike

The wortd became flesh. Verse 14 tells us the Logos became flesh, incarnate and dwelt among mankind.  This is undeniability a reference to Jesus Christ.  Now God has revealed Himself to us in the person of the incarnate Jesus!

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And John in our text in the Gospel of John reveals Jesus as the eternal Logos, the living incarnate Word of God.   He has now come as a man in human flesh.

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The Joy Of Mercy

Posted on December 23, 2025 by pastormike

The joy of mercy.  The writer of Hebrews in our text is  arguing that there is a new covenant that is based in the work of Christ.

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There will be a coming day when God would renew the minds of Israel and write into their hearts the very things that gentiles already have in the cross.  The blindness over Israel would be lifted and the nation, from the least to the greatest would experience the mercies of God.

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The Joy Of Grace

Posted on December 18, 2025 by pastormike

There is no greater joy than to experience the saving grace of Jesus. If you have come to know Christ as your savior, you are the present remnant saved by His grace.

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Romans 11:5 (ESV) 5 So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

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The Faithfulness Of God Toward The Imperfect Believer

Posted on December 11, 2025 by pastormike

God is faithful even when we are not!

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To endure, or persevere, with Christ does not protect salvation, which is eternally secured when a person trusts in Him as Savior and Lord. It confirms what has already taken place by the regeneration work of the Holy Spirit at new birth.

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Obedience Is Worship Not A Mean to Heaven

Posted on December 3, 2025 by pastormike

Obedience is not a means to God but rather the result of a work of God in us.  And it is that obedience which is the ultimate act of worship to God as a result of the work of the Holy Spirit within us through regeneration.

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Ephesians 2:10 (ESV) 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

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Thankgiving 2025

Posted on November 27, 2025 by pastormike

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God.  Not from God, but in God.

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This is expressed in worship and worship is praise.  Praise is to speak what we care about.  To delight in the Lord is incomplete until it is expressed.  We praise what we enjoy because the delight is incomplete until it is expressed in praise.

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Walk In The Spirit-Part 2

Posted on November 21, 2025 by pastormike

When we walk in the Spirit we please God.  When we don’t we please the flesh.  Our flesh, does not desire the things of the Spirit of God.

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It desires those things that run counter or contrary to the Spirit.   And the end result is that when the flesh is in control we fail do those things that please God.

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