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A Close Encounter of the Wrong Kind

One of the top movies of the 1970s was Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The story was about humanity’s encounter with an alien ship and in the end, a human being, named Roy, joins them in their exploration of the universe. In Genesis 3 we are confronted with a “close encounter of the third…

Hope in the Middle of Despair

For many people in our world, Easter is just another opportunity to take an extra day or two off of work and spend it with family and friends. The Easter story is about a man who lived two thousand years ago. He walked the Earth teaching about peace and God’s love. Eventually, He got enough…

Salvation Leads to Praise

In Hebrews 9, we read this: “And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.” Death and judgement are events all humanity will face one day. For most of the people in the world, this will be their future. But what about for the Christian? Is this what we have…

Perfected Love

I have been preaching out of Galatians for the last few months. Sharing out of chapter 5, we discovered that living a life of love fulfils the law. I started to think about love and I was drawn to 1 John. Here, John calls us to love God and one another in what he calls…

Benefiting from Jesus’ Suffering

I believe that everything in the universe was created by God, therefore, I believe the entire universe exists to display the glory and grace of God. Now it might be simpler to say that the entire universe exists to display the greatness of the glory of God, but the Bible is more specific. The glory…