Point of Grace Online Worship - October 6, 2024

Point of Grace – 10.6.24 Sermon Notes

Jesus dreams His church to be

“A Safe Place to Belong”

and

“A Grace Place to Become”

Jesus and Becoming

John 8:3-11 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11 “No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

“God loves you too much to leave you the way you are!”

John 20 21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 4:15-16 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

Grace + Truth x Time = Transformation

“We each need a “grace place” to become

And together we can be a “gracious place of becoming”

Colossians 3 12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. 15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. 16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. 17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

We each need a safe place to belong and a grace place to become…

And together

We get to provide that safe place of belonging and grace place of becoming for someone else.

Point of Grace Online Worship

Point of Grace – 9.29.24 Sermon Notes

Jesus dreams His church to be

“A Safe Place to Belong”

Does humanity need this?

“Our sense of meaning comes from loving connections with God and others. We are born to connect, and we need to belong. We receive love that ultimately stems from the beautiful love among the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, which has existed for all eternity. We then give that love out of gratitude for the love we have received, this becomes a virtuous circle. But sometimes we get stuck. There are forces at work in our culture and in our hearts and habits that disconnect us from ourselves and others….. But in our most honest moments we know this is what we need: to know and be known, to love and be loved.

“The Connected Life” by Todd W. Hall

Jesus and Belonging

John 8:3-11 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11 “No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

Matthew 9:9-13 9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. 10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Jesus’ revolutionary message was that all people “Belonged” to Him …. He paid for us to be with Him even with all our baggage … guilts, gunk and grief … which so often isolate us. The community He inspired (the church) has the same message “belonging is possible in the Body of Christ”.

The Jesus Community – A Safe Place to Belong

Ephesians 2 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ…… 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. 19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

The presence and love of Christ released in His church gathered in His name under His reign makes “a safe place of belonging” possible.

1 John 4 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

We each need a safe place to belong and together we get to be that place of belonging for others.

Point of Grace Online Worship - September 22, 2024

Point of Grace – 9.22.24 Sermon Notes

“Always Pray and Don’t Give Up”

Luke 18:1-8 Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not become discouraged, 2 saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect any person. 3 Now there was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my opponent.’ 4 For a while he was unwilling; but later he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God respect any person, 5 yet because this widow is bothering me, I will give her justice; otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.’” 6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge said; 7 now, will God not bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night, and will He delay long for them? 8 I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”

This parable has some layers of meaning and helps us with two questions:

Why should we persist in “prayer and not become discouraged”?

How should we persist in “prayer and not become discouraged”?

Luke 18 Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not become discouraged, (not give up) 2 saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect any person.

3 Now there was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my opponent.’ (vindicate me… make things right … make sure truth prevails) 4 For a while he was unwilling; but later he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God or respect any person, 5 yet because this widow is bothering me, I will give her justice; otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.’” (Literally ‘give me a black eye’) 6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge said; 7 now, will God not bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night, and will He delay long for them? (or be longsuffering to them) 8 I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly.

Why Pray?

Jesus paints a picture of the persistent woman who was utterly powerless against the unjust forces of culture and indifference of people. She had “one” thing available to her that is her “persistent coming to the one who could ‘make things right’”. Jesus accentuates the importance of this “persistent coming” by describing the judge as indifferent to the woman’s needs except ….. he didn’t want her to “give him a black eye”.???? It turns out the judge did care about himself and his reputation when it was on the line. This is what her persistence tapped into and she (the powerless one) got justice in the end.

Jesus contrasts our heavenly Father with the judge by saying our Father in not indifferent.

He does hear our prayers.

He is at work answering our prayers.

He does value our tears shed under the weight of things “not being right” as we cry out to Him to “make things right” in a world gone wrong.

He wants us to cry out to Him.

He wants us to “hold Him to His promises – He cares about His reputation.”

He wants His children to bring all the angst messiness of being broken people in a broken unjust world to the prayer room.

Because He does care.

He is compassionate.

He is merciful and He does answer often “unexpectedly” … “surprisingly” now and will “make all things right” when He returns……. Come Lord Jesus … Come quickly.

How do we pray and not give up?

Jesus leads us to pray “all in”….. bring our whole selves…. wholehearted.

Come fully, passionately “all in” to Him in prayer.

Rehearse His promises back to Him. Ask Him to fulfill them in our day… in our lives …. Now!

He comes “quickly” as we pray…. unexpectedly “making things right”

as we pray in this “already now but not yet” chapter of the story we are in.

In the last line Jesus paints us who live 2000 years later into the picture,

“However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find (the) faith on the earth?”

Point of Grace Online Worship - September 15, 2024

Point of Grace – 9.15.24 Sermon Notes

“STOP and PRAY”

“If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this will lead us to pray. Intercessory prayer is a way of loving others… Intercessory prayer is selfless prayer, even self-giving prayer. In the ongoing work of the Kingdom of God nothing is more important than Intercessory Prayer.” Richard Foster

STOP and PRAY

STOP – “to be interrupted and interruptible to ‘notice’ beyond ourselves”

PRAY – “to invoke the resources of heaven upon the needs on earth”

Pray First, Pray Now, Pray Bold, Pray Through

Luke 19:1-10 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. 3 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way. 5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” 6 So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly. 7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.” 8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Acts 3:1-8 C3 One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon. 2 Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. 3 When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. 4 Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, “Look at us!” 5 So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them. 6 Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.” 7 Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong. 8 He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God.

Matthew 6:9-13 C4

9 Jesus said, “This, then, is how you should pray: “

‘Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be Your name …

Your kingdom come…

Your will be done … … on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread.

Forgive us our sins, as we also have forgiven those who sin against us.

Lead us not into temptation, but Deliver us from the evil one.  

STOP and PRAY

“To pray the Lord’s prayer, especially the first three petitions, is like being Special Forces embedded deep in enemy territory calling in the coordinates for a cruise missile of the wholeness of Heaven to strategically strike a certain brokenness on earth, for the ‘rightness’ of heaven to overwhelm a particular ‘wrongness’ on earth, that the victory already secured by heaven would breakthrough and manifest itself now on earth.”

Can you imagine if the church of Jesus caught the vision of Jesus and exercised the authority of Jesus invoking the resources of Jesus into the realities of earth.

What if God could trust us to “STOP and PRAY” at a moment’s notice and for the long haul, joining Him in bringing about the redemption of the world, our families, ourselves?

Point of Grace Online Worship - September 8, 2024

Point of Grace – 9.8.24 Sermon Notes – “A Remarkable Passion for Mission”

A Remarkable Passion for a Remarkable Mission

“Jesus exudes a remarkable, enduring, motivating, contagious Passion for His Mission”

“What’s His fuel?”

Matthew 9:35-38 35 Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

“compassion” “σπλαγχνίζομαι – (splanchnízomai) – “to be moved from the bowels, to have deep compassion”

“because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd”

Matthew 14 “13 When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns. 14 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.

Mark 1 40 A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” 41 Jesus was moved with compassion. He reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” 42 Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed.

Mark 8 2 “I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat.

Luke 15 20 So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him

Jesus has and gives us His heart of

compassion-filled-passion for unconnected people

that fuels prayer and

risks participation in the Jesus mission.

36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

Romans 10:1-4 Dear brothers and sisters, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved. 2 I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal. 3 For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. 4 For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given.[b] As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God.

“Passion needs exercise or it withers away!” - A Really Smart Person-

Point of Grace’s A-B Toolbox for participation in the Jesus mission.

A – Alpha

B – B.L.E.S.S.

B egin with Prayer

L isten

E at

S erve

S hare your Story with Him

Alpha is an experience of the Good News of Jesus which, as a church, we commit to regularly having so we each have a space to invite people we know who need to know Jesus better.

Jesus gives us His heart of

compassion-filled-passion for unconnected people

that fuels prayer and

risks participation in the Jesus mission.

“I think you have the heart …. It’s just been covered up a while!” -Eugene Bunkowske-

Point of Grace Online Worship - September 1, 2024

Luke 10:1-12                    Being Sent                     September 1, 2024

Current reality today: Who are you going on mission together with? 

Prayerful question to ponder:

Who might God be inviting you to go on mission together with? 

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. 

Jesus' strategy: Go together. 

2 He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.

Jesus' strategy: Pray. 

3 Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. 

4 Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road. 

Jesus' strategy: Take nothing along. 

5 “When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ 6 If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to you. 

Jesus' strategy:

Be on the lookout for a person of peace. 

7 Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.

Jesus' strategy: Eat with people. 

8 “When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is offered to you. 9 Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ 

Sending ordinary everyday followers of Jesus from the sidelines to the streets

to start new to reach new. 

Who might God be inviting you to go on mission together with?  Where will you go? What will you do?

Point of Grace Online Worship - August 25, 2024

Point of Grace – 8.25.24 Sermon Notes – “In the Beginning God…” Genesis 9-11

The Repeated Cycle

-God is gracious creator/provider of “good” for humans!

-Humans drift from “trusting” God and “receiving” the “good” of life to determining for themselves how to get/take the “good” life God promised

-This always results in increased evil, wickedness and man’s inhumanity to man.

-God responds with some judgement but prevailing mercy to rebuild the relationship with humans.

Gen 9-11

The Noah story concludes with a restart for humanity!

Genesis9:1 “Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.” Genesis 9:20-23 “20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. So the cycle continues…. But ….. God has introduced something new into the picture as “creator and provider of ‘good’” Genesis 9: 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”

God wants us to: “Remember He remembers His gracious promises to us. Even when it seems life (or even He) is against us (clouds) He is always for us because He loves us (rainbow).”

Even after Noah and his son try to “take” the good life for themselves God sends a reminder through the author of Genesis for us to, “Remember, He remembers His gracious promises to us. Even when it seems life (or even He) is against us He is always for us because He loves us.” Genesis 10 is all “genealogies” “32 These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.”

Genesis 11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” 5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” 8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

The people of Babylon had forgotten to, “Remember, He remembers His gracious promises to us. Even when it seems life (or even He) is against us He is always for us because He loves us.”

When is it hard to “Remember He Remembers”?

-When life is hard!

-Divine Thwarting

-The Father’s discipline

James 5 “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, 6 because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.” 7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father…. but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness. 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. “Remember, He remembers His gracious promises to us. Even when it seems life (or even He) is against us He is always for us because He loves us.”

We need so much encouragement to “Remember he remembers His gracious promises to us.”

“Take eat this is my body given for you …

“Take and drink this cup is the new covenant in my blood shed for you …

… do this in remembrance of me! (… do this for my remembrance!)

“Remember, He remembers His gracious promises to us. Even when it seems life (or even He) is against us He is always for us because He loves us

Point of Grace Online Worship - August 18, 2024

Sunday, August 18, 2024 “Faith that Works with God” The Faith of Noah – Part Two

Rev. Mike Coppersmith

Do you have an anchor? Do you know how to use it?

“Faith that Rests in God”

“Faith that Works with God”

James 2:14-17 says Dear brothers and sisters, what’s the use of saying you have faith if you don’t prove it by your actions. That kind of faith can’t save anyone. Suppose you see a brother or sister who needs food or clothing and you say, “Well, goodbye and God bless you; stay warm and eat well”—but then you don’t give that person any food or clothing. What good does that do? Faith that doesn’t show itself by good deeds is no faith at all—it is dead and useless.

Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

SIX CHARACTERISTICS OF A FAITH THAT WORKS

BUILDS ON A BIBLICAL FOUNDATION

Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Romans 10:17 Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.

GROWS WITH A HOLY FEAR

Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Genesis 6:22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

Genesis 7:5 And Noah did all the Lord commanded him.

Genesis 8:22 “For as long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest…will never cease.”

Psalm 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

PREPARES BECAUSE OF A WISE FORESIGHT

Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Matthew 24:36-39 But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

PRIORITIZES A GODLY FAMILY

Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Genesis 6:23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals, the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left and those with him on the ark.

Acts 16:31 “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

PROCLAIMS A DIVINE FORECAST

Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

John 3:19 This is the verdict: light has come into the word, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.

John 3:16-18 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”

ANTICIPATES GOD-GIVEN FAVOR

Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Mark 10:29-30 Truly I tell you, no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.”

A FAITH THAT WORKS…

Builds on a Biblical Foundation

Grows with a Holy Fear

Prepares Because of a Wise Foresight

Prioritizes a Godly Family

Proclaims a Divine Forecast

Anticipates God-Given Favor

Genesis 7:1 “Come now into the ark, you and your family.”