Posts with the category “next-steps”

While our salvation cannot be earned by doing good works, our salvation compels us through love to do good works to serve God and others. We see this in Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”. But verse 10 goes on to tell us that God has good works for us to do, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”  Read More

Prayer, put simply, is communicating with God. It is a privilege because our Creator, the Creator of the universe, wants to communicate with us. Prayer can be words spoken out loud in a public or private setting, and it can also be words spoken in our hearts, because God knows our hearts and our thoughts (Psalm 139:1-2). Prayer is a two-way conversation. It is an opportunity for us to express our ...  Read More

Today, we live in a digital world with ever-increasing access to the Internet through smartphones. While this technology has brought about many positive elements to our world, it has also fueled the rise of online sexually graphic content. Pornography has had a destructive impact on families throughout the country.  Read More

1 Corinthians 12:27Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. We are happy that you have an interest in becoming a member of Faith Church.We believe that church membership is very meaningful and important.  Since membership in the church gives the individual the high privilege of electing its pastor and officials and setting major church policies, it is imperative that me...  Read More

Being baptized in water is an “outward sign of an inward change”. While being baptized does not make a person saved (in right relationship with God), or cause the forgiveness of sins (faith in Christ alone does this), people who are saved and forgiven should be water baptized out of obedience to Jesus (Matthew 28:19).  Read More

John 3:16For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. There is only one Biblical answer. To follow Jesus is to do life Jesus’s way. It means we surrender control (our plans, dreams, ideas of what life should be), and instead, choose to live in obedience to God’s Word.In the beginning, God created the world, and i...  Read More