Pastor John has been speaking on a series he calls “U Can Change,” in which he has essentially been establishing the fact that there are no excuses for the Christian to not change, especially refuting the assumption that a person “can’t change.”
The specific topic today: Friends. He offered a variety of reasons that friends are [...]

Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. (Rom 6:13)
It is interesting that the word translated as “instruments,” hoplon (Strong’s [...]

The memory of the righteous will be a blessing… (Pr 10:7)
This was one of the central passages around which the memorial service for Emily’s maternal grandfather, Millard Clark, was based.
Taking the service as a whole into consideration, this verse could not have been more appropriate. Verse after verse, passage after passage was quoted from the [...]

Pastor John did a great job highlighting the original meaning of Romans 6:11:
In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
“Count” as it is translated in the NIV is the word logizomai (Strong’s G3049), which translates as “to reckon, count, compute, calculate, count over; metaphorically, to pass to [...]

This Sunday, two people were baptized at the start of the service. They were a married couple that had actually first been baptized on the day of their wedding. That said, they wanted to be immersed as their first baptism was via sprinkling. Pastor John explained the significance of immersion as symbolic of dying to [...]