The challenge is not just to believe in the eventual salvation promised to us when we die, but in the ways God personally rescues us now. Our struggles in this life are a set-up: a stage carefully set to display God’s delivering power to the rubber-necking world around us. This has always been how God proves His presence and reality to the outside world: through the contrast that occurs when frail mortals carry immortal blessing within them…
Read MoreIt’s important to know that God is very much aware of the tension He asks His followers to live in, whether their days bring worldwide diseases or wars or personal tragedies like cancer and death. As we grow, and in the abundant grace showered all over us, we have the hope to not just survive this tension, but to transcend it
Read MoreSinging these words, I have found comfort and joy as I reflect on the centuries of Christians before us who have proclaimed the same gospel as we do. I encourage you to reflect on the truths of the Creed that are encapsulated in the lyrics of “This I Believe”…
Read MoreI was a lazy Christian, neglecting my mind, and in serious danger of loving a god of my imagination, rather than God as He has revealed Himself through the Bible. Without any real direction on Bible study, I continued this mindless path until I came to the Village Community Church (VCC). At VCC, I have found that knowing God as He has revealed Himself in Scripture is the fuel of my affection for Him…
Read MoreWhere the glory of God is shown there lies joy and satisfaction for Christians. My task and pleasure in this short time is to move you closer to being convinced of the same. I long for you to see in the pages of scripture what I have, mainly, that God has chosen to shape his people using the chisel of suffering…
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