When you think of Bethlehem, do you think of a town of silent serenity or a place of bedlam and pandemonium? The Christmas carols tell us it was a place…

While We Wait

December 8, 2024
On this second Sunday of Advent, Dr. Jay Dudley spoke about Zechariah and Elizabeth's unexpected experience as aged parents and how it suggests faithful ways of awaiting our Lord's second…
Even after the evil that some of Israel's and Judah's kings committed, and especially when that nation of would-be priests broke covenant with Him, God was still in the business of bringing the world back to Himself. So He chose His Son Jesus through whom the whole of the world could enter a covenant with Him-- and at the same time join Him in uprighting an upside-down creation. Jesus Himself would be the new, Ultimate King and also the Ultimate Priest. In this teaching a week before Christ the King Sunday, Pastor Chris compared and contrasted one of Judah's most wicked rulers with our superior King.
Even after the evil that some of Israel's and Judah's kings committed, and especially when that nation of would-be priests broke covenant with Him, God was still in the business of bringing the world back to Himself. So He chose His Son Jesus through whom the whole of the world could enter a covenant with Him-- and at the same time join Him in uprighting an upside-down creation. Jesus Himself would be the new, Ultimate King and also the Ultimate Priest. In this teaching a week before Christ the King Sunday, Pastor Chris compared and contrasted one of Judah's most wicked rulers with our superior King.