We hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving and are looking forward to the Advent season, anticipating the arrival of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Our youth will help lead in worship this Sunday, the first Sunday of Advent. Come and worship!
– Pastor Marlin Betts
Someone said that when he got to Heaven there would be three surprises: who was there, who wasn’t there, and that he was there. This Sunday we will look at God’s gift of eternal life, and when it really begins.
– Pastor Marlin Betts
The Bible is very clear that life is a choice and there are only two options: God or Satan, good or evil, truth or lie, light or darkness, salvation or sin. John 3:16 makes the choice clear as well: perish or life. Every person has made a choice between the two options. But some may want to change and choose Jesus.
– Pastor Marlin Betts
If you could change a word or two in John 3:16, what would you change? Well, there is one word I would sometimes like to change. Yet if I changed it, it would destroy the whole meaning. I will share that word with you this Sunday.
– Pastor Marlin Betts
I grew up hearing about “worldliness.” If I recall correctly, worldliness was mostly a warning against abandoning traditional dress codes, playing cards, and going to bowling alleys because “they serve alcohol there.” Today I am so overwhelmed by a world full of terrible sins, that those issues of yesterday seem trivial. And so I wonder, what did Jesus mean when He said: “For God so loved THE WORLD….”
- Pastor Marlin Betts
The Bible is very clear that the source of unconditional love is God Himself. So to really experience quality love, you have to believe in God and have a relationship with Him. Or someone with a relationship with God has to give you that kind of love from God. Interesting, isn’t it? We’ll explore these thoughts this Sunday.
– Pastor Marlin Betts
There is a Bible verse that is rarely used for sermons because it is so well known. Through the promptings of a friend, God has inspired me to preach from this verse for the next couple of months. I hope you will all come along for the journey. Wow! God wants to speak to you and me. Do we have time to listen to God?
– Pastor Marlin Betts