Grace: Enabler or Empowerer

  Grace: Enabler or Empowerer? The world believes that grace enables.  Most of the Church believes that grace enables.  The common vein of thought in our culture is that to give a gift to someone who has clearly made poor decisions and choices in life will only...

The Love of Restoration

The Love of Restoration—Humboldt Junkies Vintage Market There is within the human soul an admiration for restoration.  This admiration was on full display this past Friday and Saturday at the Humboldt Junkies Vintage Market.  Vendors from all over Humboldt brought...

The Temptation of Jesus (Matthew 4:1-11)

“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones...

The Fruit of Repentance (Matthew 3:7-12)

“But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as...