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Month: April 2024

The Heart of Disunity

Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. – James 4:1-2, NKJV – The reason we fight and quarrel is not very mysterious. Neither is the reason for disunity in our relationships and the church as a whole. Scripture makes the cause plain as day....

A Letter From Pastor Jeremy Ellis

At the age of forty-two, all I have known is the church and ministry. My family grew up in church, and I have been a pastor for the past two decades. The one thing that has been alarmingly consistent and ubiquitous is that the Church operates more in disunity than unity. This has become the elephant in the room that we never address; instead,...

A New Commandment

As I have loved you … love one another. (John 13:34) Not long after washing the disciples’ feet, Jesus said to them: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you” (John 13:34). Though God had always commanded His people to love one another, Jesus set a new standard. He sacrificed His life for the eternal good...

The Profit of All

There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all. – 1 Corinthians 12:4–7 – The one God exists eternally as three distinct persons: the Father,...