What we will be doing for 2026
There were two trees in the garden of Eden, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life. Adam forfeited the tree of life by eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but because of God’s great mercy He promised to redeem us from Adam’s error. God has given man words and visions of prophecy to hope in. In Adam we all die, but in Jesus Christ we have life and victory. In the concluding chapter of Revelation we see this promise, this victory, and eternal joy fulfilled. The ultimate hope, a new creation, purity and God’s presence forever. The Holy Spirit, and the bride, say come. Will you accept the invitation?
As believers we are called to and given the discernment to distinguish between heavenly values and the allures of this world. God has set before us life and death, blessing and cursing and He commands us to choose life, but will we. We are called to actively separate ourselves from the world system that promotes sin and rebellion against God and we are warned of the judgements that results if we don’t. Let’s take a look at how God will judge Babylon and take heed, knowing what to expect if we join ourselves to her and continue in her.
The Bible is Christocentric, its enter focus is Jesus. The OT speaks of a Savior is coming, it glorifies Jesus in prophecy. The NT speaks of a Savior that has come; the Gospels give us His history on the earth. The Acts shows His active in the Church through the Holy Spirit. The epistles expand on what we are shown in Acts and helps us know its relevance. The Revelation dramatizes graphically Christ in glory.
We, as believers, should live and conduct ourselves in a manner that proclaim the praises of God, influence unbelievers to glorify God, silence foolish people by our good works, win spouses to Christ, shame ungodly critics, and confuse our former associates. Are we or are we succumbing to the influence of the world? Peter tells us how our faith in Christ should be reflective of our hope and what it should produce in us.
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Sound and Christ like leadership in the church fosters sound doctrine which leads to sound living and abundant life. Good biblical teaching commands us to live submitted, loving and forgiving lives as we are being reconciled to God and He reconciles us to each other.
We are called to be stewards; our stewardship is over God’s creation and His revealed mysteries. It is required of stewards to be found faithful, we must faithful over natural things, small things and another man’s things, then God will entrust things of our own to us. Can you be trusted? Paul teaches us what the requirements are and how we can become qualified and made ready. Join us as we look into 2 Timothy 2 and learn what it takes to a faithful steward.
Paul never had opportunity to visit Colossae, but His impact upon the tri-city area was tremendous. There are places we may never be able to reach, but our prayers, intercessions, and giving thanks, our influence in the heavenlies can make a world of difference. Don’t withhold from any the good you can do because you never know the impact it can make but we do know the impact we were brought into the kingdom to make.
The Bible admonishes us to put on Christ and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof. What does that mean and how do we do that? We do it by living a new life in Christ by adopting His character and virtues, rather than living by the dictates of our sinful desires, we let the same mind that was in Christ be in us.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.” So then, we are to be forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, pressing toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called us heavenward in Christ Jesus. For when we were children we thought as children do, we reasoned after that manner. Now that we are more matured, we are to put the ways of childhood behind us. Ephesians 4 teaches us how that looks in our daily living.
As believers we take to seek to know what is the Church, what is its origin, what is its destiny and what is its mission. We also need to know we possess in Christ and our position in Him. Why, well our problem as mankind is that we have lived out of harmony with our environment, we have been alienated from the life of God. We have trespassed His holiness and His righteous decrees, fallen short of His perfection and been dead spiritually. God wants us resurrected and restored to profitability to His purposes. Knowing our position then will determine our possession and authority and then we can reign in life as conquerors.
The Spoken Word December 8, 2025
In Matthew 5:48 Jesus instructs us saying, "Be perfect, therefore as your heavenly Father is perfect." This is a call to "holiness" a reflection of God's character, showing love, mercy and righteousness without partiality, even extending this to our enemies. What happens when the Church stops operating in holiness? Apart from holiness none will see God nor experience true peace.
We can trust God to comfort us in our suffering knowing that it has purpose in the Christian experience. In trying times look to Him, lean into Him through prayer and supplications with thanksgiving and that He is conforming you to His will. While God is making you share your testimony to encourage others and intercede on behalf of others that God's kingdom comes, and His will is done.
The Spoken Word December 3, 2025
We are the sheep of God's pasture, for it is He Who has created us and not we ourselves. He created us and formed us intentionally to fulfill a purpose that He determined before the foundation of the world. Let's honor God, celebrate gender distinctions, realize we are interdependent of each other (male and female), and glorify God as we embrace divine order.
Paul tells us in Philippians 2:12 Therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed [my suggestions], so now, not only [with the enthusiasm you would show] in my presence but much more because I am absent, work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling (self-distrust, with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ). [Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight.
The Spoken Word November 24, 2025
We place our money in banks, and we don’t sit outside the bank to ensure its safety, we exit and go about engaged in the activities of life and trust in the bank and the government that insures what’s in our accounts. God is greater than the banking institution, the men who manage them and the country that backs them.
God is able to keep what we commit to Him. We have to believe in God’s power and trustworthiness to protect and preserve everything we entrust to Him, even when it’s us, our life, our soul and our future. Then we must present our bodies to Him, commit our way to Him and rest in His faithfulness as we work His work.