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April 4, 2026April 4, 2026 admin John Hendryx

THE DAY DEATH LOST ITS HOLD

~John Hendryx There is a moment in history that most people move past too quickly. It is early morning. The sky is

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April 3, 2026April 3, 2026 admin Scott Henry

THE BLESSING OF GOOD FRIDAY

GOOD FRIDAY is the day when believers remember the suffering and death of our Lord Jesus Christ on the accursed cross. It’s

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March 31, 2026March 31, 2026 admin Scott Henry

THE CHRISTIAN & THE WORLD (Pt. 1)

“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is

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March 29, 2026March 29, 2026 admin Scott Henry

A CHRISTIAN’S SUNDAY MORNING PRAYER

My Father and My God, You are Almighty God: Father, Son, Holy Spirit.You are the omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient God, Who ordains all

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March 27, 2026March 27, 2026 admin Scott Henry

GOD IS ALWAYS GOOD

Whether a person lives or dies, contracts a sickness or is healthy, is healed from cancer or dies from cancer, is wealthy

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March 22, 2026March 22, 2026 admin Scott Henry

A CHRISTIAN’S SUNDAY MORNING PRAYER

My Father and My God, THANK YOU, Father, for saving me from death, Hell, and Your coming wrath! Thank You, Lord Jesus,

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March 20, 2026March 20, 2026 admin Scott Henry

SALVATION IS A DIVINE WORK

Ephesians 2:8-10 teaches that salvation is by God’s grace alone through faith alone, and this teaching has always been a crucial issue

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March 17, 2026March 17, 2026 admin Scott Henry

SALVATION BY GRACE ALONE!

Ephesians 2:1-3 demonstrates that every person apart from Jesus Christ is dead in sins, in slavery to sin, under the wrath of

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March 15, 2026March 15, 2026 admin Scott Henry

A CHRISTIAN’S SUNDAY MORNING PRAYER

My Father and my God, I bow before You this Lord’s Day morning through the Lord Jesus Christ, He is my righteousness,

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March 14, 2026March 14, 2026 admin Scott Henry

THE TOTAL DEPRAVITY OF MAN

Scripture tells us that every person born into this world, Christ excepted, is a “hater of God” (Romans 1:30). Paul wrote in

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ONLY JESUS CAN SAVE

“Nor is there salvation in any other: for there is no other name given under heaven among men, whereby we must be saved.”
—Acts 4:12

AS FAR AS earning your place in heaven, your “good” works count for nothing. They are, as Isaiah said, “Filthy rags!” (Isaiah 64:6). However, that does not mean our works are unimportant. Good works must be found in your life if you belong to Jesus Christ (John 15:1-5). However, there is much confusion regarding the Christian and good works. People either think they are saved by their good works, or they are saved by Christ alone and therefore good works are unimportant, but both positions are unbiblical.

THE BIBLE TEACHES that the believer does good works not to be saved but because they are the saved. Notice what Scripture teaches concerning the Christian and good works:

• The Apostle Paul said that a widow under 60 years old is not to be financially cared for by the church unless she has been “well reported for good works…” (1 Tim. 5:10).
• Ephesians 2:10 teaches that believers are God’s “workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
• Jesus, in His sermon on the Mount, taught believers to “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:16).
• The Apostle Paul taught that godly women ought to “adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, but which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works” (1 Tim. 2:9-10).
• Concerning the rich, the Apostle Paul told Timothy to “Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share…” (1 Tim. 6:17-18).
• In the book of Titus, the Apostle Paul teaches that the young men of the church are “…to be a pattern of good works…” (Titus 2:7); that the redeemed of Christ are to be “…zealous for good works” (Titus 2:14); “…that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works” (Titus 3:8); and that Christians must “…learn to maintain good works, to meet urgent needs, that they may not be unfruitful” (Titus 3:14).
• And the writer to the Hebrews admonishes the saints to “…let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works” (Hebrews 10:24).

NEVERTHELESS, THE BIBLE also teaches that our “good” works are not the cause or ground of our salvation. The cause and ground of our salvation is always and only the perfect law-fulfilling life and sin-atoning death of Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 5:21). But if you are trusting in anything alongside of or instead of Jesus Christ then you are not trusting Jesus and you are on the broad road that leads to Hell! The Heidelberg Catechism, Q&A 30, reads, “Do those also believe in the only Savior Jesus, who seek their salvation and welfare from "saints," themselves, or anywhere else? No; although they make their boast of Him, yet in their deeds they deny the only Savior Jesus; for either Jesus is not a complete Savior, or they who by true faith receive this Savior, must have in Him all that is necessary to their salvation.”

WHAT ABOUT YOU? Are you denying the ONLY Savior Jesus by trusting in something other than Him? Or by true faith are you looking only to the Savior Jesus Christ and therefore have in Him all that is necessary to your salvation? “Nor is there salvation in any other: for there is no other name given under heaven among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Look to Jesus today and live!

Friday Devotional: May 15, 2026
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Pastor S. Henry
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BE RECONCILED TO GOD

“God has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, not imputing our trespasses unto us.”
—2 Corinthians 5:19

WHY IS RECONCILIATION necessary? Scripture’s answer is clear –because of our trespasses and sins. We read in our text, “not imputing their trespasses unto them.” The word “trespass” means to “fall aside from the truth” or “go out of bounds” and this makes us worthy of punishment. Because of the consequences of Adam’s sin, which is called Original Sin, every person born into this world, Christ excluded, has stepped out of the bounds of God's Law by rebelling against Him, and when we did so we broke fellowship with God. Isaiah 59:2-4, “But your iniquities have separated you from your God and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perversity. No one calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; they conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.”

ISAIAH TELLS US that the awful price of our sin is personal wickedness and alienation from God. Do you understand this? Many people today look at the cross of Christ and don’t see a great thing because they don’t understand the seriousness and wickedness of sin. But Scripture teaches that every sin is rebellion against God and it destroys our fellowship with God, the very Giver of life. Therefore, if we will escape the just judgment of God, which is everlasting punishment in the Lake of Fire, then we must be reconciled to God, and this is only accomplished by the work of Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul wrote, “And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ –God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself” (2 Cor. 5:18-19). It is through Christ that we are reconciled to God because on the cross Jesus was the payment for the sins of all those given to Him by the Father (John 6:37). As our text says, God is the Reconciler and He reconciles sinners to Himself based on Christ’s sin-atoning death and law-abiding life.

JESUS WAS THE substitute for all who trust in Him. He stood in their place in order that the multitude of their sins, which separated them from God and would have cast them into eternal punishment, would not be judged in them but in Christ on the cross. “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21). The “us” in this verse refers to all who trust in Christ.

WHAT ABOUT YOU? Are you trusting Christ? Are you among the “us” that Paul refers to in 2 Corinthians 5:21? Scripture is crystal clear –Jesus, and NONE other, is our only hope of being reconciled to God. As we read in Acts 4:12, “And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved.” Therefore, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved…” (Acts 16:19).

Tuesday Encouragement: May 12, 2026
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Pastor S. Henry
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