by Claude Stauffer | Aug 15, 2019 | Cross, Discipleship, Gospel, Holy Living, Living truth, Revival, Secularism, trends, TRuth
“. . . Go and sin no more” – John 8:11 A short little blurb on Facebook had a pretty profound and succinct statement capturing the contrasting church views of our day. It said, “A liberal church says you are welcome here and you do not have to clean up your life. A...
by Claude Stauffer | Apr 23, 2019 | Cross, Gospel, Resurrection, Revival, Salvation, Spiritual growth
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...
by Claude Stauffer | Apr 16, 2019 | Cross, God's love, Gospel, Grace, Salvation
“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...
by Claude Stauffer | Apr 9, 2019 | Cross, God's love, Gospel, Grace, Salvation
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...
by Claude Stauffer | Aug 6, 2018 | Cross, Holy Living, Salvation, Spiritual growth
“Come let us go up to the mountain of the LORD” – Isaiah 2:3a Would you like to get closer to God? Let me suggest a way for that to happen. The book of Isaiah was written about eight centuries before the birth of Jesus. He wrote to a nation that had strayed from...
by Claude Stauffer | Jul 24, 2018 | Cross, God's love, Salvation
“I the LORD love. . .” – Isaiah 61:8a Do you feel unloved? Do you feel forgotten? Do you feel forsaken? Such thoughts can really get a person down. Such thoughts can drive us into deep depression. Such thoughts can discourage us and leave us in a deep dark pit of...
