Today we recognize and celebrate our High School and College Graduates! What a wonderful season of life to close one chapter and begin another. We know that God has great plans for each of these students and we are grateful to be a part of their lives!

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” Jeremiah 29:11

In Christ,

Pastor Nathan

High School Graduates

Colton Clark

Mitchell Crawford

Ian Dailey

Cameron Goldsmith

Jobi Hill

Brayden Ledford

Katelyn Wilson

College Graduates

Dillon Ledford

Sophia Parrish

Paul Rigsby

Today we recognize and celebrate our High School and College Graduates! What a wonderful season of life to close one chapter and begin another. We know that God has great plans for each of these students and we are grateful to be a part of their lives!

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” Jeremiah 29:11

In Christ,

Pastor Nathan

 

High School Graduates

Colton Clark

Mitchell Crawford

Ian Dailey

Cameron Goldsmith

Jobi Hill

Brayden Ledford

Katelyn Wilson

College Graduates

Dillon Ledford

Sophia Parrish

Paul Rigsby

The Book Romans (Sermon #8)

Romans 1:17

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

These two verses crystallize the thesis of the entire book Romans—the gospel of Jesus Christ—which Paul will unfold and explain in the following chapters are anchored here, and will serve as the axis on which the rest of this epistle will revolve.

Today is the last Monday of May known in America as Memorial Day. Originally known as Decoration Day, it originated in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971. Memorial Day, as Decoration Day gradually came to be known, originally honored only those lost while fighting in the Civil War. But during World War I the United States found itself embroiled in another major conflict, and the holiday evolved to commemorate American military personnel who died in all wars, including World War II, The Vietnam War, The Korean War and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It’s of vital importance we remember those who fought, died and paid the price for what the red, white and blue represents. Even those who’s number was called served with honor, dignity and bravery. Many who were drafted in WW2, Korea and Vietnam refused to go home at the end of the required deployment. They saw the need, they knew they didn’t want what they saw to come back to the homeland, so they stayed, they fought and they died. Their death, their sacrifice purchased for us a freedom, a liberty and a land like no other. There has never been a greater Nation with more wealth, prosperity and access than these United Sates of America.

I submit to you, even as torn and tattered as her inward condition is, She is still worth fighting for. She is still worth dying for, all because She still has great potential, if she will only awaken, be restored and call back on the Bridegroom that made her great! Oh the sacrifice that was paid so we could be free! No words, no pros could ever tell the whole story, of what God has given us in our story of America. 

As Americans we should all remember the sacrifice that has been paid so that we can live and enjoy the goodness of God under a banner of freedom, and we must vow to protect this precious gift from our God.