Prayer Emphasis – Prayer Calendar
Posted April 30th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
During May, we are going to have a church-wide prayer emphasis. The Elders believe that our church needs to develop and grow in our individual and corporate prayer lives. We see, even in ourselves a lack of dependence on God, a lack of desperation to experience His presence, and a shallowness in our prayer. As […]
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Questions and Doubts #2
Posted October 17th, 2008 by Mike Hubbard
When reading the Bible, especially in the Old Testament, how can God be seen as a loving God, when he strikes down so many people? He seems more like an angry hateful God to me. This is one of those deep thinking, philosophical questions. I’ll try to give a few simple responses, but at the […]
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Devotion – Hosea 4
Posted May 8th, 2008 by Mike Hubbard
You will become what you worship. I’m not talking about singing a few songs or saying prayer or two. You and I were made to worship, and our hearts will exalt something to the place of supremacy. What happens is that our lives will become an image of that which we place as supreme in […]
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Sermon on Baptism
Posted April 25th, 2008 by Mike Hubbard
At our weekend service this week, I am going to be speaking on the sacraments of baptism and communion. Baptism is a difficult issue, as we talk about the importance of believer’s baptism, or the need for people who have believed in Jesus to follow that with a public declaration of their faith in baptism. […]
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False Gospels for Eureka – Pluralism
Posted February 29th, 2008 by Mike Hubbard
On the airplane to Seattle this week, I sat next to a woman reading a very interesting book. The title of the book was, Reincarnation: The Missing Link in Christianity. The interesting thing about the title of the book is that it is a clear reflection on one of the trends taking place in our […]
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