Posts Tagged ‘relationship with God’

Becoming A Man After God’s Heart

Today is Father’s Day – we salute fatherhood. Some of you have happy memories of your relationship with your Father, others like me have other kind of memories.  One thing that is consistent for all of those who know Christ, through Him we have a perfect father! One who loves us, redeemed us, calls us…

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Believe The Witnesses

We find in our text today the continuation of Christ’s dialogue with the religious leaders. They were questioning what authority he had to do the things He was doing. They were specifically concerned with Christ breaking the Sabbath by “working” to heal the cripple man at the Pool of Bethesda (5:1-16). Jesus told them why…

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Finding Mercy At The “House of Mercy”

Today our text is found in John 5:1-16. Remember what John is doing – he is laying out a case for us the readers, that Jesus is God and that He is the only way for us to come to God. John is not recording everything Jesus said or did. Instead he is narrating key…

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The Problem of Sin

“The problem of sin” in our world does not come as a shock to any of us. We certainly can agree that there is something fundamentally wrong with the world. According to Christianity the biggest problem that the world faces is sin. The concept of sin is offensive to some. What does Christianity mean when…

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Why are there so many religions?

Here are the Bible study notes from this morning. We will upload the .pdf version for download so check back in a day or so. Aren’t all religions equally valid—just as long as they are sincere? How do we explain the presence of so many religions in the world? Aren’t the world’s religions all trying…

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