PASTOR’S LETTER
WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT FROM PASTOR JEFF PERRY.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.2 Corinthians 5:17 NASB 2020 1. YOU ARE SAVED. Christianity is not just another world religion or a bunch of formal religious duties. It is a divine rescue. Colossians 1:13…
Continue ReadingDevote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving; praying at the same time for us as well, that God will open up to us a door for the word, so that we may speak forth the mystery of Christ, for which I have also been…
Continue ReadingIn order that you may not grow disinterested and become [spiritual] sluggards, but imitators, behaving as do those who through faith (by their leaning of the entire personality on God in Christ in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) and by practice of patient endurance and waiting are [now] inheriting…
Continue ReadingFor the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. Romans 8:2 1. JESUS TOOK THE STING FOR US. I heard a story about a man driving in a car with his son. The windows were open as they drove on a beautiful spring…
Continue ReadingTherefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. For yet in a very little while, He who is coming will come, and will not…
Continue ReadingThe thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. John 10:10 In this verse, Jesus gives a glaring contrast between the devil’s work to diminish and His plan to bring the kind of life heaven itself enjoys. 1. THE DEVIL…
Continue ReadingRejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Philippians 4:4 1. THINK ON THINGS THAT PRODUCE JOY AND PEACE. Jesus produces joy in our lives. The joy of the Lord is a confidence and settledness, and it’s a kind of serenity that is not based on our circumstances but…
Continue ReadingBut as for me, the nearness of God is my good;I have made the Lord God my refuge,That I may tell of all Your works. Psalm 73:28 1. DRAW NEAR TO GOD. This Psalm of Asaph articulates something we see in the lives of Moses, David, Abraham, and absolutely in Jesus’…
Continue ReadingConsider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials [or temptations], knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. James 1:2-3* 1. EMBRACE RESISTANCE TRAINING. I’m going to the gym later today, and I know that resistance training produces muscle. I know that the difficulties of…
Continue ReadingBlessed is the person who does not walkin the counsel of the wicked,Nor stand in the path of sinners,Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!But his delight is in the Law of the Lord,And on His Law he meditates day and night.Psalm 1:1-2 STABILIZE YOUR DAY WITH THE BIBLE. Right at…
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