by Domenic | Jul 18, 2016 | Weekly Spiritual Checkup
What does it mean to “believe God”? 1. To know that reality is greater than how we feel or how things appear. 2. To focus on facts about God. 3. To trust the bare word of God. Tim Keller, Romans 1-7 For You “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as...
by Domenic | Jul 13, 2016 | Weekly Spiritual Checkup
Register for Art Camp Today! We’re happy to announce that registrations have been pouring in for this year’s Art Camp, and we are already 2/3 of the way toward filling all our available slots. While we don’t want to turn any children away, we have a limited amount of...
by Domenic | Jul 8, 2016 | Weekly Spiritual Checkup
None of us trust the Lord as much as we should. Sometimes we worry; sometimes we doubt; sometimes we get so caught up in our problems that we forget God altogether. Fortunately, our faith is not in ourselves; or, to put it another way, our faith is not in how much...
by Domenic | Jun 3, 2016 | Weekly Spiritual Checkup
“Paul is showing that religious people need the gospel as much as unreligious people; and that religious people run from the gospel as much as unreligious people. The heart of the gospel is that God’s righteousness has been revealed, so that it can be received (Romans...
by Domenic | May 27, 2016 | Weekly Spiritual Checkup
“We work ourselves up into a state of self-righteous indignation over the disgraceful behavior of other people, while the very same behavior seems not nearly so serious when it is ours, rather than theirs.” John Stott, The Message of Romans “Condemning others while...
by Domenic | May 24, 2016 | Weekly Spiritual Checkup
“Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues ‘no air exists’ but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe—they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to...
