Pastor Steve Carpenter closely examines the Fall of Adam & Eve in Genesis chapter 3, with careful attention to the snake’s engagement with Eve. Very insightful. You may download a text copy of this message by using the orange button below —->
Because God is a forgiving God, He is a healing God! These two are inseparable accompaniments of each other. Our healing always touches multiple levels in varying proportions—the emotional, the spiritual and the physical. These are not separable categories in our lives. We cannot rigidly distinguish between emotional and spiritual illness, which inevitably also carry in them physical implication. God is concerned about the whole person: body, soul, spirit, mind, will, and emotions. So if we harbor grudges, offenses, anger,…
This message of God’s full and complete forgiveness of sins was heard and rejected by the proud, blind, corrupt Judaism of Jesus’ day, but a handful of religious outcasts received it as the best news that could ever be heard by listening ears, and they became the early nucleus of a new people of God known as the church, the called-out assembly, whom Christ has received as the inheritance and reward of His sacrifice. And we, the church of Jesus…