Live Scripturally
Pastor Claude T. Stauffer
The Burning Heart
And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” – Luke 24:32 Note: The following message was delivered in four parts during Resurrection Week 2019. Palm Sunday marks the...
The Cross of Christ
“For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” - 1 Corinthians 2:2 Why is the cross of Christ so important to the Christian? Why is it so important that the Apostle Paul wrote the Corinthians, “For I determined not to know...
His Own Love
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. – Romans 5:8 What is God’s love like? That’s an interesting question. It presupposes that God loves. Some people would say that God is not a God of love. They look...
Passed Away
“Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.” – Revelation 21:1 When a person dies, we sometimes use the colloquialism that they “passed away.” It’s a polite and delicate way of...
How You Walking?
He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. – 1 John 2:6 Hey, have you seen those young guys who walk the edges of roof tops and jump from roof to roof? It’s called parkour or free running. Crazy stuff! I get dizzy just watching the...
Protection in the War of Words
“Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord!” - Psalm 27:14 Have you ever been in a word war? That’s not a rare thing nowadays. Politics is front and center in a culture war ongoing today. In the political arena...
Reigning with Christ
And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. – Revelation 20:4 It doesn’t take a doctor of political science to look at governments, regardless of type, and see they are steeped in corruption, waste, injustices, and too frequently chaos. Revolutions...
March on Church!
“And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers” – Acts 2:42 The Church is under attack! The Church is in danger of losing its identity. The Church is getting bogged down and blocked by worldly...
Binding Satan
He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years – Revelation 20:2 Satan needs to be bound. Satan needs to be tripped up, tied up, and shut up. Yesterday, February 25th, the United States Senate voted...
Holy Anger
“Be angry, and do not sin” – Ephesians 4:26a I don’t know about you, but recent developments in our world have riled me up. Reading the news or watching it on TV or online in some form, has percolated an anger in me. Is that right? Is that wrong? Can a Christian be...