Firsts

Abe’s lessons for today are best summarized by his opening remarks… This is the first day of the year that has been designated as 2017. It is not just the first day of the year, but it is the first day of this new week. It is also the first...

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God’s Power to Save

A few months ago, our preacher Abe Martin was invited to go with member Cody Cain to India to work with a preacher there named Prem whom Cody had been friends with for some time. Over the past several years, the growth in the church in India has been substantial...

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Talents

Embed from Getty Images Matthew 25:14-30 (NKJV) – “For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them. And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according...

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Counting the Cost

2 Samuel 24:24 – “Then the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God with that which costs me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty...

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Why I am a Christian

1 Peter 3:15 – “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear” Are you a Christian? If you are, why are you? If you...

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What is Your Life?

Embed from Getty Images James 4:14 (NKJV) – “whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.” Ecclesiastes 1:2-4 (NKJV) – “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities,...

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