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Blog Posts & Devotionals
Articles, devotionals, and updates from our church community — written to encourage and equip you in your walk with Christ.
Hope
By Marc Wagner Hope fuels endurance and helps us to keep going. Without hope, people give up trying and abandon what they have started. Being a follower of Jesus is participating in God’s life right now, with a hope that one day this new life will be brought to its fullness in a renewed ...
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Being Missional
By Marc Wagner As a believer in Jesus, you have most likely heard that we should be on mission or that we are to be missional. As a reflection this week, I would like to focus on what I think that should mean. I like to practice replacing common phrases that get thrown around, so ...
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Persevering Faith
By Adrian Isaacs Daniel, we are told, was doing a fast and “had been mourning for three entire weeks” (Dan. 10:2-3). According to one commentary, the reason for Daniel’s fast was likely his anxiety over those, among his people, who had returned to Jerusalem (John F. Walvoord, Daniel, 2012, p. 303). While fasting and mourning, ...
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Standing Out in a Noisy World
If you open up social media, you’ll find no shortage of opinions. Everyone, qualified or otherwise, wants you to know what they think about the day’s issue. It’s more than just sharing their thoughts or a lively debate. This often turns into a fight that becomes more about the person than the idea. It seems ...
Josh RambajueFaith in the Fire
Written by Marc Wagner Fire! This biblical metaphor is used often to describe trouble, tribulation or testing. It is used to describe a difficult time or event that someone is facing. Daniel 3 is the familiar story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, defying the authority of the land, because of their trust and obedience ...
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Resolve to be Different
By Adrian Isaacs One of the challenges that we as Christians face is the pressure to conform. A “spirit of the age” runs counter to Biblical truth, which we encounter as we interact with society. We might be tempted to see as harmless certain sinful behaviours that society regards as acceptable. We may be ...
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New Heaven, New Earth
By Marc Wagner Revelation 21:1 …“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.” Revelation 21 introduces us to the climax of the whole story of the Bible, a picture of the end of this age with new heavens and a new earth, ...
GKMThe Triumph of Righteousness
Written by Adrian Isaacs From the serpent’s temptation in the Garden of Eden until this very day, a conflict has existed in the human experience that has eternal consequences. There is God’s established system – the worship of the true God Who requires us to believe what He has said and to faithfully walk ...
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War in Heaven, Tribulation on Earth
Written by Adrian Isaacs A remarkable scene is presented to us in Revelation 12: a war in heaven between the archangel Michael (with his angels) and Satan (and his angels). Satan is defeated and cast down to earth, but he comes down “filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short” (12:12, ...
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By Marc Wagner Ah, the book of Revelation! There are many things in Revelation chapters 4 and 5 to focus on, but let’s turn our focus to only one area that is a larger theme in these two chapters…the throne. I would encourage you to read through chapters 4 and 5 of the book, and ...
GKMThe Seven Churches of Asia
Written by Adrian Isaacs The second and third chapters of the Revelation present us with a fascinating and sobering perspective: a penetrating appraisal by the ascended Christ of His people. In Revelation 1:11, we are told that John was instructed to write on a scroll what he saw and to “send it to the seven ...
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Jesus is All We Need
The Description of Jesus to the Seven Churches When John turned towards the trumpet voice that commanded his attention, the first thing he saw was seven gold lampstands, “which are the seven churches”. In their midst, he saw the one “like a Son of Man”, who was Jesus. One of the duties of the Old ...
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