Posts by Scott Roberts (Page 31)
Pentecost is about the Harvest of the Lost POHFW
Preparing our Hearts to Worship In an effort to help you prepare for the June 4th, 2017, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on Pentecost. I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is entitled, “Pentecost is about the harvest of the lost”. The main Scripture for the day is Acts 2. The other passages are either referenced in…
5 Simple Questions to ask when studying your Bible?
When a book is as weighty and important as the Bible, it is important that we study it. But more important than studying it, is that we study it well. Because Christians inherently understand these two things, many are scared to undertake their own study of the Bible out of a fear of being led astray. As I have been trying to simplify the task of Bible Study in order to teach my children, I have found that these…
A follow up thought from Sunday’s message
I ran across this quote today during my devotions. There is a stirring story behind the quote about a Nigerian woman whose husband was killed after Shariah law was declared. Suffering, hardship and pain were her lot. But this quote gives us hope. Let it encourage you today. It has been said God will never lead us where his grace cannot keep us. We must realize that sometimes his plan does not include a miraculous deliverance from illness, death, or…
Raising the Dead POHFW
Preparing our Hearts to Worship Raising the Dead In an effort to help you prepare for the May 28th, 2017, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on the Life of Elijah. I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is entitled, “Raising the Dead”. The main Scripture for the day is 1Kings 17:17-24. The other passages are either referenced…
Benefits of Christ’s Ascension for the believer
“First it understands that the Lord by his ascent to heaven opened the way into the Heavenly Kingdom, which had been closed through Adam [John 14:3]…” “Secondly, as faith recognizes, it is to our great benefit that Christ resides with the Father. For, having entered a sanctuary not made with hands, he appears before the Father’s face as our constant advocate and intercessor [Heb. 7:25; 9:11–12; Rom. 8:34]. Thus he turns the Father’s eyes to his own righteousness to avert…
Adult Sunday School Survey
If you are a regular attender of Hope in Christ and are age 15 and over, would you please take a few minutes to answer this 6 question survey about the topics for our Fall Sunday school program? https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WZ8MQKJ Thanks, Pastor Scott
Competing Worldviews Influence Today’s Christians – Barna Group
Here is some research from Barna backing up the claim I have been making in our Adult Sunday School Class on comparative worldviews. This is a very insightful article about the way that worldviews hostile to Christianity are influencing the church and her people. For example, only 17% of practicing Christians have a “biblical worldview”, which Barna defines as: believing that absolute moral truth exists; the Bible is totally accurate in all of the principles it teaches; Satan is considered to be…
POHFW: The Testing of our Faith
Preparing our Hearts to Worship In an effort to help you prepare for the May21st, 2017, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on the Life of Elijah. I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is entitled, “The Testing of our Faith”. The main Scripture for the day is 1Kings 17:7-16. The other passages are either referenced in the message…
A.W. Pink on the state of our government?
These words written in September 1942 by A.W. Pink, a calvinistic baptist preacher from the last century, might be worth remembering and reflecting upon: “But when error comes into the churches and discipline is relaxed, the Spirit is grieved and His power is withheld, and the evileffects of this become more and more apparent in the country by a rising tide of lawlessness. If the churches persist in a downwardcourse, then the Spirit is quenched and “Ichabod” is written over them,…