The Wealth Of Weakness

 Over the past few weeks I have become ever sure of one fact, I am weak. This fact has haunted me like the guilt of an un-repented sin, constantly rearing its ugly face at me. In work, in play, in worship, and in study, I was constantly confronted with the reality that my attempts to grow are constantly thwarted by my frailty. As I lamented my lack of progress the Lord was gracious and met me in my time of need and said words that rang sweetly in my ears:

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

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The God Who Reveals: Part Three

Now this is where the rubber meets the road. This is where the story above meets us, The Village Community church, challenging us in our understanding and in our actions.

Romans 10:9 shows us the way to salvation as Paul writes “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” The problem is that far to often we begin and end here and pay very little attention to Christian duty.

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The God Who Reveals: Part Two

In Luke 19:10 Jesus explains his mission, “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” So the story moves from God revealing himself through a myriad of ways, ultimately finding its completion in the God-man, Jesus, to the realization of Gods intent behind it all, “to seek and save the lost”.

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The God Who Reveals: Part One

This past week some of the staff at the Village Community Church took the opportunity to head down to Louisville to join with other pastors for gospel focused edification at the Together for the Gospel conference.  The three-day conference would supply us with many things, but the common takeaway was a renewed call to evangelism. We were deeply convicted with the realization that in different forms we had all allowed life, fear, or sin to distract us and lessen our hearts desire to see the lost saved.  This has led me to write and share the encouragement given to me and to remind us of our Christian duty.

This conversation, a series of posts, finds it origins in God, the sovereign One who reaches down to reveal himself to sinful men.  We see this...

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The Leper is My Brother

After six months of living in an inner city area i have begun to see prejudice arise within me, prejudice especially towards modern day lepers.

In Matthew 8 we are given an account of Jesus’ run in with a diseased man, a leper. If we take the time to live into the story and not just read over it we find that this man comes to Jesus...

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