When we look at other people who have what we want, we tend to think they were lucky or don’t like them. Or both. Most of the time, the people were not lucky, but they lived their life with consistency. Look at almost any type of successful person; you find that success leaves clues. Successful…
Love God, Love Others
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What is Heaven really like? Does it even exist, and if so, what is it like there? This is a question that many Christians and non-Christians are wondering. Yet even in Christianity, there are varying opinions on this place called heaven. Some people don’t believe in heaven or say that there are three heavens or even seven…
What is the one sin that God cannot forgive? I have met people who have committed terrible sins and they think that they have committed the unpardonable sin. Is the unpardonable sin murder? Maybe it’s adultery? Some believe the unpardonable sin is cursing the name of Jesus. What we will see from the Bible is…
We worship first and foremost by hungering and thirsting after God above all things. And we allow God to serve us, and to breath Himself into the deepest recesses of our hearts. Thus, “in true worship, we experience the presence of God, and it changes us, it shakes us to our core — the foundation of…
So who are these two preachers that stopped going to church in Mount Vernon? Here’s a clue, they are the greatest preachers that ever lived. In fact, they are brothers, and every time they open their mouths, they talk about Jesus and His amazing Grace. Scripture: Luke 24:13, 17-18, 27; 1 Cor 10:4; Ps 22:1;…
The Bible calls us to Love. Love God and Love Others. At Mount Vernon Seventh-day Adventist church we have chosen to make this declaration our mission. But How? How do we grow in Christ to the place that we can authentically Love others? Peter challenges us to Grow in GRACE. (2 Pt 3:18) How? Through…
One of the hardest things that any of us can ever learn in life is how to forgive someone who has wronged us. For some of us, we have been carrying around the weight of something that happened years, maybe even decades, ago. It is time to overcome that major hurdle and learn the gift…
2 Peter 3:10-11 challenges us to consider the time in which we are living and acknowledge that this earthly life will soon pass away. In awareness of this reality the question is postulated by Peter, “What type of lives should we be living?” Good question. Does Peter have any experience with this transformative question? Did…
In our spiritual journey we often are confronted with the Lord asking us, “how long before you completely surrender your life to me. If I am truly God, then serve me. But if you have other “gods” in your life, I can’t really be your God fully.” I want to explore that question through the…
In our journey with Jesus, we are called to surrender all. We are call to go higher up and deeper in, in our walk and service to Jesus and others. Ultimately we are called to Love God with all our hearts and to Love others as we love ourselves. At Mount Vernon SDA Church we…