A brief look into the supremacy of Christ and His creative and redemptive work. In this we find not only our hope, but the assurance of our salvation, and how this should shape the way that we live here on Read more…
We start off today with a story by Paul Trask’s wife, Leslie, which relates directly to today’s message. The story features a farmer endeavoring to save his precious birds during a blizzard. Though he seeks to do his birds good, Read more…
When the church celebrates communion, both Jesus and Paul tell us to remember Jesus, and the sacrifice He made to secure our eternal salvation (Luke 22:19; 1 Corinthians 11:25). And so during communion we should indeed reflect backward and remember Read more…
In Luke 10:25–37 Jesus is confronted by a legal expert who puts him to the test by asking, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” Since this is a legal expert, Jesus explores this lawyer’s own understanding of the Read more…
On the cross, Jesus overcame evil with good: He didn’t return evil for evil; He didn’t pass on the evil by seeking revenge; He absorbed it (Romans 12:21; 1 Peter 2:23). The only way we can truly absorb evil—the only Read more…
There are 5 descriptions of the early church that can be distilled from the early chapters of Acts. God’s new ekklesia (church), besides being the community of the forgiven, is also: the community of the outpoured Spirit, the blessed citizens Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Today, Pastor Steve Carpenter continues his exploration of Jesus’ Parable of Two Debtors from Luke 7:36–50. Jesus now places this (former) prostitute on a high pedestal for all to see, while at the same time giving a scathing indictment of Read more…