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August 8, 2025August 8, 2025 admin Scott Henry

GOD’S FAITHFULNESS IN AFFLICTION

“I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me. Let, I pray, Your merciful

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August 5, 2025August 5, 2025 admin Scott Henry

SCRIPTURE ALONE FEEDS THE SOUL

“The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.”—Psalm 119:160 THE HYMN WRITER described the Bible

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August 3, 2025August 3, 2025 admin Matt Powell

GRIEF

By Pastor Matthew Powell I’m reading a book that my niece gave me. On Grief and Grieving, by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David

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August 3, 2025August 3, 2025 admin Sinclair Ferguson

JESUS’ TEACHING ON MARRIAGE AND GENDER

By Sinclair B. Ferguson As we discuss the remarkable fact that God created mankind as male and female, it’s important to recognize

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August 3, 2025August 3, 2025 admin Scott Henry

A CHRISTIAN’S SUNDAY MORNING PRAYER

Heavenly Father, Thank you for this Lord’s Day and the new opportunities You will bring my way.Help me to be faithful and

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August 1, 2025August 1, 2025 admin Scott Henry

SCRIPTURE IS THE VOICE OF GOD

“Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God.” —Ephesians 1:1 THE CENTRAL TEACHING of the Book of Ephesians is that

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July 29, 2025July 29, 2025 admin Scott Henry

LIVING SACRIFICE

“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable

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July 27, 2025July 27, 2025 admin Scott Henry

A CHRISTIAN “KEEPING IT REAL” PRAYER!

My Father and my God, I come to You this morning through my Lord Jesus Christ and by the Holy Spirit. O

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July 26, 2025July 26, 2025 admin JACKIE GIBSON

God’s Comfort in the Loss of a Child

By Jackie Gibson Christians are not promised health, wealth, and happiness this side of heaven. The sad reality of life in a

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July 25, 2025 admin RANDY ALCORN

Find Your Identity in God, Not Your Suffering

—Randy Alcorn “We live in a time when we are defined as disabled, bipolar, alcoholic, ADHD, victims of lupus, cancer, Parkinson’s disease,

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THE MARK OF A TRUE DISCIPLE OF CHRIST (PART 2)

“If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow Me.”
—Matthew 16:24

In Matthew 16:21, Jesus said, "I have to go to Jerusalem to be killed and be raised the third day." But the disciples did not hear the words, “be raised the third day.” All they heard was "be killed." Then Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, "Far be it from You, Lord; this shall not happen to You!" But Jesus turned to Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan.” Jesus was not saying that Peter was Satan. Peter was just the instrument of Satan’s attack. Satan had been trying to turn Christ away from the cross since the first temptation in the wilderness. Jesus knew where this attack was coming from. Jesus then says at the end of vs. 23, "You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men." Peter was thinking the way of the world. He was thinking about the crown without the cross, glory without suffering, reward without the sacrifice.

And so, once again, Jesus teaches His disciples the principle of self-denial. The word "deny" in our text means to disown or renounce oneself. Jesus is teaching His disciples what it means to be in union with Him. In other words, to be a believer is to be spiritually united to Jesus Christ by true faith, and because of this union you now live a different life. You are a new creation in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17), born from above by the Spirit of God (John 3), a true branch engrafted into the vine (John 15). Simply put, you now belong to Christ and as a result you begin a life-long journey of forsaking your sinful passions and desires to follow Jesus. As a true disciple of Christ, you recognize you are not your own, but you belong to your faithful Savior Jesus Christ, who with His precious blood has fully satisfied for all your sins (Heidelberg Catechism, Q&A 1). “Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's” (1 Cor. 6:19-20). Does your life demonstrate that you are a true disciple of Jesus Christ? "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow Me.”

Friday Devotional: March 6, 2026
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Pastor S. Henry
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