Have you been a good steward this week?

by | Jul 16, 2015 | Weekly Spiritual Checkup

Have you been a good steward this week? Or have you wasted time and energy worrying and fretting about things you cannot control? Too often we focus on things that are beyond our grasp while neglecting the work that we should be attending to. The fields are ripe for...
Make a difference?

Make a difference?

by | Jul 11, 2015 | Weekly Spiritual Checkup

Want to make a difference in someone’s life? Want to help support the ministries of the church? Invite your friends to Movie Night, where they can be introduced to the church family in a comfortable, non-threatening way (and where they’ll hear a brief gospel...
What comforts you when times are tough?

What comforts you when times are tough?

by | Jul 4, 2015 | Weekly Spiritual Checkup

What comforts you when times are tough? Where do you find relief? Consider this famous portion of the Heidelberg Catechism (Question #1): Q. What is your only comfort, in life and death? A. That I belong—body and soul, in life and in death—not to myself but to my...
Sometimes we make excuses

Sometimes we make excuses

by | Jun 13, 2015 | Weekly Spiritual Checkup

Excuses, excuses, excuses! Sometimes we make excuses for not doing everything the Lord tells us to do; perhaps we don’t think obedience will make any difference, or we don’t trust the Lord to keep His word. Too often we focus on things that are out of our control and...

The doctrine of the atoning death

by | Jun 3, 2015 | Weekly Spiritual Checkup

“We do not subscribe to the lax theology which teaches that the Lord Jesus did something or other which, in some way or other, is in some degree or other, connected with the salvation of men.…We firmly believe…the doctrine of the atoning death of our great...