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Amped Up Passion
Pastor Wes Bredenhof
Jul 8, 2025
What sorts of things do you get passionate about? What does it mean to be zealous?
3 Min
Don’t Neglect the Assembling of the Saints!
Pastor Mark Hogan
Jul 4, 2025
A church-less Christian is a pure contradiction in terms. An oxymoron like falsely true.
2 Min
Keep Your Kids from the Kool-Aid
Pastor Wes Bredenhof
Jul 2, 2025
Public education is a mortal spiritual danger to our children -- we ought to treat it as such.
5 Min
Eight Reasons Women Should Not Serve as Deacons
Pastor Mark Hogan
Jul 2, 2025
Do 1 Timothy 3:11 and Romans 16:1-2 advocate for female deacons?
4 Min
Diagnosing Our Personal Idols
Pastor Mark Hogan
Jun 26, 2025
Idols are secret loves, hidden trusts, and time-grabbers. We sometimes need to fish them out of the depths of our hearts where they stay hidden.
2 Min
Christian, Don't Suppress Your Identity!
Pastor Wes Bredenhof
Jun 24, 2025
There's often a temptation to cover up who we are as Christians. We have to fearlessly live out our identity in Jesus Christ.
4 Min
What to Do When the Bible Makes You Uncomfortable
Pastor Mark Hogan
Jun 24, 2025
Instead of ignoring, or self-condemning, or looking for quick comfort, we should honestly search our hearts and ask that God would change us.
6 Min
The Google Earth View on Besetting Sin
Pastor Mark Hogan
Jun 19, 2025
Christians trapped in a repeating “sin-cycle” are sometimes myopically focused on stopping the sin itself, that they don’t address the deeper motivations of why it is necessary to stop sin, and what the sin has to do with idolatry.
2 Min
Reformed Stupidity?
Pastor Wes Bredenhof
Jun 18, 2025
Reddit writer: Do Reformed preachers not see the stupidity of telling people not to rely on their works while also saying genuine faith produces good works?
2 Min
Bible Reading: Perfunctory Exercise or Devotional Enhancement?
Pastor Mark Hogan
Jun 10, 2025
Puritan Thomas Watson said, “The reason we come away so cold from reading the Word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.”
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Lectio Continua: Suffering, Discouragement & Therapeutic Christianity
Pastor Chris Gordon preaches through Matthew 5:10–12, the last and most unexpected Beatitude, distinguishing true persecution for righteousness from the discomforts Western Christians often mistake for it.
I Alone Am Left: Battling Discouragement
Rev. Chris Gordon and Rev. Dan Borvan dive into 1 Kings 18 and 19 to discuss the reality of severe depression and discouragement in the Christian life.
Lectio Continua: How to Build a Strong Christian Family in a Broken Culture
Pastor Chris Gordon addresses the severe modern challenges facing the family unit and provides a biblical blueprint from Deuteronomy 6 on maintaining a Christ-centered home.
What Baptism Doesn't Mean
Let's look at two ways baptism gets misunderstood.
Don't Amputate the Bible
It's spiritually dangerous to play pick-and-choose with which Bible passages you want to believe.
A Tale of Two Football Games
Does being a Christian affect how we watch our favourite team? Does God care about things like that?
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