What would things look like if Satan really took control of a city? Over a half century ago, Presbyterian minister Donald Grey Barnhouse offered his own scenario in his weekly sermon that was also broadcast nationwide on CBS radio. Barnhouse speculated that if Satan took over Philadephia, all of ...

  Here is one of my favorite excerpts from Milton Vincent's The Gospel Primer For Christians.  "Compared to greater endeavors, self-love is mundane and tiresome. Consequently, the more thoroughly I can be done with such tedium, the freer my soul will be to soar at its God-intended ...

Next Sunday we're going to learn a hymn that was written around 1908 by Rev. John Wilbur Chapman and originally titled "One Day". In 2008, Michael Bleecker took the lyrics from that hymn and put them to new music, as he was preparing for Easter services, and called it "Glorious Day" (the lyrics ...

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I try to warn our people over and over to be cautious of any magic bullets that might be offered to them. You know what those are right? They are teachings of certain books and articles and sermons that promise a once-for-all rememdy for our marriage, how we raise our children, how we handle money ...

Next Sunday we're going to learn a new Gospel-centered song called "Only The Blood" from The Village Church album GOD OF VICTORY. This song is adapted from the hymn "Nothing But The Blood" (Robert Lowry - 1876), with the new words and music written by Jeff Capps, Michael Bleecker, Taylor Johnson, ...

On Monday I gave the staff the following questions regarding their spiritual health. They were taken from a book by Don Whitney called 10 Questions To Diagnose Your Spiritual Health. Here are the 10 questions: 1. Do you thirst for God? 2. Are you governed increasingly by God's Word? 3. Are you ...

Yesterday I talked about how one of the best ways to be on mission with the Gospel is to use food. Tim Chester wrote a book called A Meal With Jesus which I highly recommend to you. Here is a brief excerpt: The Jews of Jesus's day would have said the Son of Man will come to vindicate the ...

Next Sunday we're going to learn a new Gospel-centered song called "In My Place" from The Village Church album GOD OF VICTORY. This song was written by Michael Bleecker and Matt Boswell in 2008 (the lyrics are posted below). To listen to "In My Place" and learn about the background of this song, ...