Treasured Truth

In today’s world, we buy more, but we enjoy it less.  We have bigger houses, but smaller hearts.  We have more conveniences, but less time.  We have multiplied our possessions, but we have reduced our values.  And we have learned how to make a living, but we haven’t learned how to make a life. When you join us for the next Treasured Truth, we’ll continue to look at stewardship and Pastor Ford w...

On the next Treasured Truth, we’ll begin to look at the various roles of the believer in evangelism. And Pastor Ford will explain that in the process of winning lost people for Christ, there are believers who sow and there are those who reap.  In other words, there are those who plant the seed of faith and others who pray with that person and who are there when he or she actually comes to Christ. Sowers and reapers are e...

On the next Treasured Truth, Pastor Ford will be wrapping up our study from the book of James about seeing purpose in your problems in pain. He’ll challenge us to consider the need we have to understand how our problems and pain can be motivating factors in our lives. Even though we go through difficulties, they can motivate us to live in our “not yet,” right now.  In other words, we can focus right now on th...

When we face problems and pain in life, we need to understand that what we’re going through is for the future that we’re going to. That struggle is a part of making us who we’re going to become and it is designed to accomplish God’s purpose for our lives. And on the next Treasured Truth, Pastor Ford will continue to challenge us as we seek to understand what God is doing in our lives through our suffering. T...

On the next Treasured Truth, as we continue our study in the book of James, Pastor Ford will remind us that sometimes the solution to our problem is in our problem.  In other words, our deficiency—which is apparent to us in our problem—may be the provision for the sufficiency that God wants to provide for us.  But often, we can’t easily see the truth about our situation. So, we must learn to trust God mo...

On the next Treasured Truth, as we continue to consider how to see purpose in our problems and pain, Pastor Ford will explain the various kinds of suffering we can encounter.  One of those is remedial suffering, and God uses it much like a potter uses heat to cure his clay.  So, it’s during those times when God uses suffering to burn character into us that cannot be changed, to burn compromise out of our life, and t...

When you join us for the next Treasured Truth, as we begin to look at the theology of stewardship, Pastor Ford will ask how many of us have made God the Lord of the leftovers?  Because if we’re honest with ourselves, He usually gets our leftover time, our leftover talents, and our leftover treasures.  We often think to ourselves—if we have anything left, then we can give to God.  But that’s not good...

On the next Treasured Truth, we’ll look further at suffering as we continue our current study in the book of James. Pastor Ford will remind us that God has sent us the trials we are experiencing in our lives, and He wants us to see them in the way that He sees them.  And that’s because He’s shaping us to make us into something that we currently are not. And why is He doing that? Because in the current shape w...

There’s power in the name of Jesus.  So much so, that when we focus on Him and on magnifying His name, our perspective changes.  And the smaller the problems in our lives will actually become, in light of His glory.  On the next Treasured Truth, find out more from   Pastor Ford about seeing purpose in your problems in pain as we continue to study what the book of James has to say about suffering. So be sur...

When we consider the purpose in our problems and pain, we need to realize that it’s not how much of Jesus we have, but it’s how much of us that Jesus has. We need to ask ourselves, do we really trust Him in our time of trouble? And on the next Treasured Truth, Pastor Ford will continue this message series the book of James that is helping us to focus on what God is doing in our lives through our suffering. To learn more...

On the next Treasured Truth, as we continue our study in the book of James, Pastor Ford will ask us to consider this question—even though we’re going through something right now, are we more committed to Jesus’ purpose than we are to getting out of our pain? To hear more about how to see purpose in your problems and pain, be sure to join us for the next Treasured Truth.

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On the next Treasured Truth, we’ll begin to look at how there is purpose in our problems and pain. You may be going through a tremendous struggle right now, and you may be discouraged and not know what to do. But Pastor Ford will encourage us to not waste our sorrows.  Instead, we should embrace them, realizing that God is up to something and is working in our lives for His glory. To learn more from Pastor Ford about how...

When you join us for the next Treasured Truth, Pastor Ford will encourage us to remember that Christ took the sting of death so that we wouldn’t have to.  Oh grave, where is your victory?  Oh death, where is your sting?  Christ has achieved the victory over death and is alive!  And because He’s alive, we are alive too! So, join us as we conclude the message called, “Run Tell Dat,...

On the next Treasured Truth, we’ll continue to look at what Jesus did for us on the cross. Pastor Ford will remind us that the condemnation of Good Friday was leading to the coronation of Resurrection Sunday.  If there were no Good Friday, then there could not be Resurrection Sunday. And he points out that many of us want the power of resurrection, but we don’t want to experience the pain of the cross. Join us...

When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, He celebrated.  And in His resurrection celebration, Jesus had prayer and praise. And on the next Treasured Truth, Pastor Ford will ask us, if we’ve followed Jesus’ example—has resurrection power caused us to pray more? Has it caused us to praise more? To learn more about how we should respond when we realize we need the resurrection power of Jesus in our lives, j...

On the next Treasured Truth, Pastor Ford will begin a new message series that looks at the resurrection of Lazarus.  And he’ll explain that God wanted everyone to understand that if Jesus didn’t raise Lazarus from the dead, it wouldn’t get done—that is exactly why Jesus delayed His departure to return and help Lazarus.  So, we must realize that sometimes the reason Jesus hasn’t come to h...

On the next Treasured Truth, Pastor Ford will continue to help us prepare to celebrate the resurrection by reminding us that God has allows our suffering for a reason. He has allowed everything we go through, and He has a higher purpose for all of it.  Now we may not be able to see or sense what that purpose is.  And we especially may not like it. But God is sovereign and He’s going to make sure that His purpose is ...

On the next Treasured Truth, we’ll continue to look at Jesus’ journey to Calvary, and what He had to endure for our salvation, Pastor Ford will help us understand the blessings in a beatdown.  He’ll remind us that we have to realize that it’s better to walk with God in the darkness than to walk alone in the light. That’s what Jesus wanted us to know. Through the example of His life, we can se...

Have you ever been anxious to tell someone about a juicy piece of gossip?  We’ve probably all been tempted to do that at some point. And on the next Treasured Truth, Pastor Ford will explain that we should be even more ready to tell people about the gospel than we are to tell them about the latest gossip.  We should be anxious to spread the good news about our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! So, join us as we begin a...