Pastor Steve

Jesus said, “… stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.  But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part  of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore…

In Matthew 24, the disciples ask Jesus, “…when will these things be, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” The first part of Jesus’ answer has to do with bad things that will happen, but which are not in themselves signs of the end. The signs…

“Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, ‘Hear and understand: it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person’” (Mt.15.11). Everything Jesus said seems radical to us because Jesus is God and God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, nor are…

Everything Jesus said seems radical to us because Jesus is God and God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, nor are his ways our ways (Is.55.8). Yet it is probably the case that nothing Jesus ever said was as radical in terms of the religion of His day and all human thoughts about religion and true…

The Lord told Israel to “Fear not!” through His prophet Isaiah. As the Jewish remnant faced the challenge of the long journey home and the difficult task of rebuilding, they could think of many causes for fear. But there was one big reason not to be afraid: The Lord was with them and would give…

The prophet Isaiah lived in critical days of international upheaval. He wrote what many consider to be the greatest book in the Old Testament. “We see Isaiah move with fearless dignity through the chaos of his day,” wrote E.M. Blaiklock, “firm in his quiet faith, sure in his God.” At a time when empires were…