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Jesus – Connecting Us to the Father

Brian Hopkins

June 15, 2025

As we celebrate Fathers Day, it is helpful to look at how Jesus modeled His own relationship with His father during His ministry on Earth. The defining characteristic of that relationship is connection. Jesus was in continual communication with His Father as He accomplished the mission on Earth that He was given by God the Father. Then, by dying on the cross in our place, Jesus made the way for us to enter into that same kind of relationship with God.

Securing Grace

Brian Hopkins

June 8, 2025

In finishing up our series on God's grace, it's important to remember that it is certainly God's grace alone through which we are saved out of death in our sins - His saving grace, and His grace is sufficient for us to carry us through whatever we might encounter in this life - His sustaining grace. Along the way, God's grace is perfecting us day-by-day into the very image of God's Son Jesus - His sanctifying grace. Finally, throughout this life and our eternal life to come, God's grace is and will forever be poured out in infinite measure upon His children who have believed on the Name and Gospel of Jesus for salvation - God's securing grace.

Women of the Word

Adam Hopkins

May 11, 2025

If you were to ask someone if there was a particular person in their life who most strongly exemplified devotion to our LORD Jesus and service to His Kingdom, very likely they would tell you it was their mother or grandmother. Rarely, will they mention a man in their life. Instead, they will usually mention a woman. As we celebrate Mothers' Day this year, it is appropriate that we reflect on some of the devoted women found in the Scripture. As we shall see, these devoted women were far from perfect, but rather they reflected the perfect love of our LORD to others in their lives - particularly the children. Praise God that He has endowed the heart of woman with such tenderness and devotion.

The End of Comparison

Adam Hopkins

May 4, 2025

God has chosen each of His followers for His specific purposes. Some of us will seem to move from blessing to blessing while others will have to endure seemingly endless sorrows and frustrations. From time to time, most of us question God's purposes as we make our way along the path God has ordained for us. We are tempted to compare our own lives with those of others - particularly other believers. In such seasons, we need to always remember that God is sovereign in all things and He is always working His perfect plans in our lives and through our lives. So instead of comparing our own circumstances with those of others, we must seek to learn God's purpose in the things He has led us to and move confidently in assurance that whatever God has led us to He will also lead us through for His own glory.