As we continue to in our Essentials Series, this week we deal with how to be sure you are saved. As we examine the Scriptures it is evident that God wants us to walk in confidence and full assurance of our salvation. While there are many ways we can tackle this subject Pastor Raphael shows from 1 John how the grounds of our faith are found within the Godhead. The Son was crucified on our behalf, the Father sent the Son and received the payment for our sin and the Holy Spirit shines the light on Christ's finished work . Hope this Message is a blessing to you.
Essentials 1: How to Become a Christian
We began our new Series Christian Essentials today. In this message Pastor Raphael explores Phillipians 3:1-11 to show that the essence of being a Christian is not Creed, Code of Conduct and Cult but knowing Christ himself. A Christian is someone who knows God as father, friend, trusts Jesus as savior and obeys him as Lord. Hope this is a blessing to you.
God's Heart for Orphans
Scripture is clear in Psalm 685-6 that God is a Father to the fatherless and protector of widows this is who he is in his holy habitation. This is not his side job, but main work. He places the solitary in a home and does it through salvation and orphan care. As we grow in our awarenes of what he has done for us we grow in our imitating hid heart towards the fatherless. We pray that this message is a blessing for you.
Seed on Good Soil
This is the last message in the series Are you listening In Mathew 13. Pastor Raphael encourages us to ask God to help us to have hearts which understand, be continually repentant and position ourselves to bear fruit that remains. Hope this blesses you.
Tested and Proved
As we come to the end of our Faith series we look at Abraham going through the ultimate test of trust. Pastor Raphael shows us how God uses tests to grow our faith and also points out the significance of this story in the plan of redeeming us. We hope this is a blessing to you.
Faith 10: A Call for Intercession
In our Series on Faith: Examining the life of Abraham this week we looked at Genesis 18:16-33. Like Abraham God's people have a responsibility of intercessory prayer for their families, the righteous and the lost. They also have a responsibility of a consistent spiritual witness warning them of the grace that has come in Jesus and the wrath that is to come. Hope this message is a blessing to you.
Faith 9: Anything too Hard for God?
Where God is welcome, he speaks! Promises are made, doubts confronted, faith is strengthened and God proves faithful. Listen to Pastor Raphael as he explore Genesis 18:1-15
Easter: God's song over us
He has risen, death, hell and the grave have been conquered. God's song of redemption of redemption is louder than the song of condemnation. God's song over us was heard when Jesus said: "it is finished". Listen to Pastor Raphael as he explores Zephaniah 3:14-19, John 19:28-30 and proclaims the good news of the gospel.
Faith 8: A Covenant Confirmed
In Genesis 17 God appears to Abraham after 25 years of waiting for the promise of a son and confirms his covenant he made with him. As we go through the story of Abraham it's evident that God is the hero of the story and has grace and mercy for Abraham and for us. Pastor Raphael explores the requirements that God expects from Abraham and how that applies to us. We hope this message blesses you.
Faith 7: Faith and Waiting
Genesis Chapter 16 involves a family problem between Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar and in the middle of it, there is an issue of waiting on the promise of God to provide a son. Pastor Raphael explores this passage to show us that waiting is also our problem. Acwaiting problem is a faith problem. Hope this blesses you.
A Culture of Hospitality
Romans 15:7 says "Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God." Pastor Raphael examines this verse to connect a culture of hospitality with the gospel. God is a God of welcome through the gospel, we are welcomed people and as a result, we should welcome others. We hope this is a blessing to you
Faith 6: A Fighting Faith
This week we discover how Abraham gives the same grace he had been given to Lot and rescues him. Listen to Pastor Raphael as he explores Abraham's faith in Genesis 14 was transformed into action which also points us to how Jesus fought for us on the Cross. We hope this blesses you
Faith 5: Divided by Strife United by Bond
As we continue our series on Faith, pastor Raphael examines Genesis 13 to show us how Abraham deals with strife between him and his nephew Lot and God's response to him. We pray that as a church community we would be a church that elevates who we are over what we have.
Faith 4: God’s Faithfulness in Our failure
As we continue our series on Faith, pastor Raphael examines Genesis 12:10-13:4 to show us how even when Abraham doubted God and failed God was still faithful to him. God commitment towards us is greater than ours to him and it is his commitment to us that leads us to deeper commitment to Him. We hope you are blessed by this message.
Faith 3: A Call to Go
According to the Old Testament Scholar Marvin. R Wilson "faith is the call to step bodly into tommorow, to embrace the new with confidence that every new day would prove to be a meeting place with the holy and eternal God." Such was the life of Abraham as shown in Genesis 12:1-9. Listen to the message on this passage by Pastor Raphael as he expounds on this passage and applies it to our lives today.
Faith 2: Abraham's background
Abraham was a great man of faith, yet it is in light of his background that God Gloriously shines in his calling him. The God who showed up in a dark and void world, unformed and unfilled can walk into any background, transform and fill it with his glory. Learn more as Pastor Raphael looks at Genesis 11:27-32, examining Abraham's background and applying it to our own faith journeys.
Faith series: Reasons For Faith
As we kick off the series on faith pastor Raphael gives some of the reasons why faith is important to the life of a Christian. In Abraham, we find the faith and failures of a man like us who lived in a gap between promise and reality. More than other figures in the bible he knew what it meant to live by faith in the middle of overwhelming circumstances. Don't miss out on the next weeks as we discover more what it means to live by faith.