The Vine & the branch Connection

07/01/2024

TURN YOUR LIFE AROUND....by submitting your life to Jesus Christ.

If you do not recall making a confession of Jesus as your Lord and Savior, we invite you to say the following prayer. Confessing the prayer marks the beginning of a new life or being "born again" as Jesus explains in John 3:3-6.

Say this confession:

Father in Heaven, I believe that You are God and that Jesus is Your Son. I believe that Jesus died for my sins and that after three days, He arose from the dead. Today, I make the quality decision to turn from my past ways. Jesus, I ask You to come into my heart to be Lord and Savior of my life. Make something new of me. Create in me a hunger for Your Word to know you better. Lead me to a church where I may be taught Your promises and principles accurately and uncompromisingly. I want to fully understand my responsibility and authority as Your child. Thank you for salvation and for your promise of abundant life......spiritually, physically, economically and socially. Father I give Your name the praise, honor, and glory with my words and with my life.....in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

If you said this confession with your mouth and believe in your heart, you're saved.

Please respond, letting us know so we can celebrate with you and also pray for you.

07/01/2024

Post by Martyn Iles:

Be careful with the phrase, "God loves you" or "God loves everyone."

In today's world, that sounds as though God feels warm and affectionate towards us all.

(The truth is that He so loved the world that He sent His only Son to die so that all mankind has a choice of choosing Him, but everyone certainly doesn't choose Him!) See John 3:16

One has to grapple with scriptures like Psalm 5:5 - "The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers."

So... God hates (evildoers)? What?!

Or, the fact that God will condemn people to hell. What kind of love is that?!

We need to be clearer about what it actually means that God loves a world of sinful people.

Principally, it means that He has made a way of salvation for all.

Making that way of salvation was the greatest act of love the world has ever known, and will ever know.

It was infinitely costly. Infinitely selfless. Totally unreciprocated.

Notice how precise scripture is - "God shows his love for us IN THAT while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Rom 5:8)

Or, the famous verse, "For God so loved the world THAT He gave His only begotton Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life" (John 3:16)

Or, "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins" (1 John 4:10)

See how it's qualified? See how specific it is? God's love to us is principally God's work of salvation for us.

Don't let people think that God is all sunshine, rainbows and warm fuzzies about them. He may be opposed to them this very moment. He will surely judge them in the future. He may even send them to hell!

Let them know that His love is found more specifically in this great fact: they can be saved.

12/30/2023

CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Change your life



TURN YOUR LIFE AROUND....by submitting your life to Jesus Christ.

If you do not recall making a confession of Jesus as your Lord and Savior, we invite you to say the following prayer. Confessing the prayer marks the beginning of a new life or being "born again" as Jesus explains in John 3:3-6.

Father in Heaven, I believe that You are God and that Jesus is Your Son. I believe that Jesus died for my sins and that after three days, He arose from the dead. Today I make a quality decision to turn from my past ways. Jesus I ask You to come into my heart to be Lord and Savior of my life. Make something new of me. Create in me a hunger for Your Word. By Your Spirit lead me to a church where I may gather together with other Believers and be taught Your promises and principles accurately and uncompromisingly. I want to fully understand my responsibility and authority as Your child. Thank you for salvation and for your promise of abundant life......spiritually, physically, economically and socially. Father I purpose to give Your name the praise, honor, and glory with my words and with my life.....in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

If you prayed the preceding prayer, welcome to the family of God!

04/13/2023

12/14/2022

This world and its desires are in the process of passing away, but those who love to do the will of God live forever.
1John 2:17

10/12/2022

Do Not Sorrow,
For the joy of the Lord is Your Strength!!

Neh 8:10b NKJV