Yesterday Pastor Emilio Ramos preached from 1 John 4:1, a message called “A Call to Discernment“. As Pastor Emilio explained, we live in an age where it is still critical to have discernment, just like is was for John’s audience in the 1st century (Listen to the 1 minute clip below): [Audio clip: view full [...]

This past Sunday Pastor Emilio preached from 1 John 3:16-24, a sermon titled, “How God’s Children Love, are Assursed, and Obey”. During his first point we learned that Christian love is rooted in the gospel, that we love because Christ first loved us (1 John 4:19), in the 3 minute clip below Emilio explains what [...]

This past Sunday Pastor Emilio preached from 1 John 3:4-8 a sermon titled, “Contrast between God’s and Satan’s Children”. Below is a 1 minute clip from the intro: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The outline is as follows: Sin is antithetical to Christ Sin is rebellion Jesus removes sin Jesus is our standard [...]

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!… – 1 John 3:1 This past Sunday Pastor Emilio preached from 1 John 3:1-3 and gave us the who, when, and the how of the children of God: Who are the children of God? They are [...]

This past Sunday Pastor Jay preached from 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 and gave us 4 ways in which we should view Christian ministers. We should view our ministers as… Slaves/Servants Stewards Those who are required to be faithful Those who will ultimately be judge by God In expounding point 2, the question is raised- “Stewards of [...]

“When Christians unto carnal men give ear, Out of their way they go, and pay for ’t dear, For master Worldly-Wiseman can but show, A Saint the way to Bondage and to woe.” – Pilgrim’s Progress (when Christian meets Worldly-wiseman) – Yesterday, Pastor Jay gave 4 reasons why we are to reject the world’s wisdom. [...]

Yesterday Pastor Jay described some common (and troubling) views of the Church in our day and age. Starting off with the “Lone Ranger” view (listen below, under 1 minute): [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Not all have that view of the Church but they may, nonetheless, be building up the Church on faulty [...]

Last Sunday, Pastor Jay did a sermon entitled “Christian Suffering”. Since I always hear people asking “Why?” or “How could God…” in regards to suffering, I thought it wise to post a little blog on this to share it with others who are struggling with these questions. Here is the last  minute of the sermon, [...]