Over the last month we have walked with Abraham through the trials, the uncertainties and the questions of life. In each season, while full of his own faltering and fumbles, we still found Abraham as a man full of faith. What is faith, again? The definition we settled upon each week was this: Faith is believing […]
In this final talk from our Sunday evening series, The Southern Baptist Convention & Our Future, Pastor Adam Triplett lays out and summarizes a new approach to how we think about partnerships as a local church. By laying out three different aspects of partnerships, and then summarizing three points within those aspects, he helps us […]
In this second talk from our Sunday evening series, The Southern Baptist Convention & Our Future, Pastor Adam Triplett lays out and summarizes our pastors’ main concerns for continuing our partnership with the SBC. While giving specific examples, he shows us how these things have been ongoing and the current direction of the convention is […]
In this first talk from our Sunday evening series, The Southern Baptist Convention & Our Future, Pastor Adam Triplett lays out a Biblical case for local churches partnering together with other Christians near and far. While giving Biblical support for being both independent and interdepend, he also highlights the benefits and pitfalls of partnering with […]
“Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.” – Hebrews 11:16 From my point of view, this single sentence has to be one of the most outrageous in all of the Bible. To take into consideration those the author of Hebrews is writing about (Abraham […]
Yesterday we were, thankfully, able to gather as a church and worship our God, in spite of the winter weather earlier in the day. In our time together we continued our journey through Hebrews 11, beginning to consider how the “great cloud of witnesses” (Hebrews 12:1) displays what a life of faith looks like for […]
This past Wednesday evening we continued our walk through the book Pentateuch (first five books of the Bible) by diving into the opening and closing chapters of the book of Leviticus (chs. 1-7 & 23-27). In these chapters, creating the bookend of Leviticus, we find God giving instructions to Moses and the people regarding certain […]
This past Wednesday we began our new time together of sharing a meal, studying the Word of God, and encouraging one another in it. I opened our time of teaching mentioning how often we treat the Old Testament like a haunted house tourist attraction. Sure. It sounds like fun and something we’ll enjoy, but once […]