Pastor's Corner: WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?

  Getting the Gospel Right: Faith, Fidelity, and Faithfulness Galatians 2:1-10 Introduction : Just last week we passed the 48 th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. Since that date, by one count, there has been an estimated 62 million abortions in our country. Let that number sink in. God created humans in His image, and in case you weren’t sure about it, He demonstrated the value of human life by sending His Son into this fallen world, to live a sinless life, dying as our substitute, taking our sins, and by grace, imputing His righteousness to all who will believe. God so loved the world … Clearly, God values human life that highly! Abortion is surely one of the great moral evils of our time. Why is it so accepted? We live in a fallen world. The problem is sin, the answer is Jesus.        Our nation is divided. Racial injustice separates us. Political ideologies divide us. Even though we’re all descendants of Adam, and for that matter, further down the line, we are all des

  GETTING THE GOSPEL RIGHT: New Life In Christ! Galatians 1:11-24 Introduction : We had a peaceful inauguration of a new administration this week, but that does not change the fact that our country is deeply divided. On top of that, we have a world with multiple hotspots that threaten peace and stability. Yes, we live in a fallen world, but we don’t despair because we know the king of the universe, and His plan will come to pass!   Imagine the world reaction if someone like Kim Jung-Un or Vladimir Putin said that they had become a believer in Jesus, and began to urge others to consider the claims of Christ. Impossible? That might have been like the shock that both Christian and Jewish leaders felt in the first century when they heard that Saul of Tarsus, a zealous Jew committed to the destruction of the “Christ-followers,” was now saying that he had met the resurrected Jesus, and was now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.        As he continues this letter to the Galat

    “Getting the Gospel Right: The Gospel and the Grace of Christ ” Galatians 1:6-10 Introduction : It seems that today one of the most valued attitudes by our society is that we be tolerant and inclusive, even in matters of faith.   One former evangelical wrote a book entitled, “Love Wins,” which essentially arrived at a position of universalism: eventually our loving God will let everyone into heaven. So basically, it doesn’t really matter what you believe, as long as you believe in yourself, you’ll be ok. To say that there is a narrow road that leads to life, to say that there is only one way , one truth , one life , to say that there is only one name under heaven by which we must be saved , that would be so intolerant as to be offensive. We don’t get to make up in our own mind what is truth! The God who is Truth has spoken. One young pastor had begun to doubt the authenticity of God’s Word... A couple of years after [ he ] was called to pastor a church, he was visiting one