We all like others to forgive us, but when it comes to forgiving others, that’s a harding thing for us to do. Often times we want to justify holding a grudge against someone for the simplest things, considering it to be an egregious sin against us. But then we turn around and hold ourselves to […]

I’m sure you have been in an awkward situation at some point in your life, right? In today’s passage, an awkward situation takes place while Jesus is visiting and dining with a pharisee in his home, but fails to pay Jesus the common curtesies of a guest at that time. Instead a woman who has […]

In this message, Pastor Nathan begins teaching in Chapter 6 of Galatians where Paul gives some very practical instruction to the church on how we are to care for brothers and sisters who fall into sin or find themselves struggling. As shown here in chapter 6 the loving, caring, intentional, and vulnerable community that we […]

In this message, Pastor Phillip wraps up his teaching from last week talking about James’ admonition to call the elders for prayer when a person is sick and an alternate viewpoint regarding deathbed ministry. He also begins teaching on verse 16 and dealing with the issues of reconciliation and dealing with sin in our own […]

In this message, Pastor Nathan discusses how pride is the at the heart of so much of the sin that we commit but that God calls us to repentance and humility. Digging into the heart of God’s desire for us, we see how devious pride really is but how God’s grace abounds to those who […]

In this message, Pastor Phillip teaches through James 2:5-13 continuing our study from last week regarding James’ instruction on showing partiality. He dives deeper into the point that any type of partiality that a person might commit is sin how instead God would have us fulfill what he calls “the royal law” or what is […]

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 […]