In our dis-functional, sin-ridden world I’m sure you have seen examples of favoritism shown in one way or another that only serves to degrade one person and favor another. Showing favoritism is something that grieves God’s heart and He calls it sin. In today’s message, Pastor Phillip examines the truth of scripture presented in James […]
In this message, Pastor Phillip dives deep into the last verse of James 1 to help us further understand what it means to keep ourselves un-spotted from the world and how it plays apart of pure and undefiled religion.
Religion. It’s a word that is often associated by Christians with something that is dead and lifeless – yet on the flip side, often used by the word to speak of something they are devoted to. In today’s message, Pastor Phillip dives right into this discussion and tackles the latter part of James 1 which […]
In this message, Pastor Phillip deals with a tricky subject of us being doers not just hearers of the Word of God. The trickiness of this subject stems from Christians wanting to ensure that our salvation in Christ is not a matter of work, but grace through faith. Pastor Phillip makes the clear distinction in […]
In this message, Pastor Phillip talks about an important part of our relationship with God and with one another: communication. The ancient saying goes like this- “A man has been given two ears and one mouth so that he would listen twice as much as he talks.” James here encourages us to be “quick to […]
In this message, Pastor Phillip draws out the rich meaning of James’ words when he talks about every good thing coming from God. God is the author of everything that is good. Pastor Phillip also discusses how the first good thing God created was light and how light is connected with truth in scripture. Then […]
In this message in James chapter 1 Pastor Phillip discusses the nature of temptation and how it leads us into sin, and the clear distinction of God’s role in temptation and trial in our life. His emphasis is on our need for faithfulness in both trials and temptations that we go through – not unlike […]