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Upcoming Sermons & Devotional Message
August Sermons 2026
8-2- Faithfulness
Lamentations 3:22-23 Hebrews 10:23
8-9- Bishop Greenway Preaching
Bishop Greenway is retiring. On the last day of the annual conference he had a teaching he called Some thoughts before I go. Over the next 10 weeks we’re going to use those thoughts as our guide to our weekly sermons
8-16- Play Well With Others.
Proverbs 15:1 Romans 12:18
8-23- Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing
Proverbs 3:5-7 1 Corinthians 1:22-25
8-30- Preach Truth and Grace
Psalms 100 John 1:14
Devotional Message : These will change 1-2 times a week. Stop by often to read the new message.
Some Thoughts on Salvation
The angels told the shepherds outside Bethlehem:
“Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you” (Luke 2:11).
People often see salvation as a civil right these days—they believe all people go to “a better place” when they die. But the Bible paints a different picture. Everyone is offered salvation, but they must accept it to receive it. Think of it like a Christmas gift—it’s purchased and wrapped, but we only receive the benefit when we open and use it.
The words “Savior,” “save,” “saved,” and “salvation” can be found over five hundred times in the Bible. The flow of scripture is that salvation is offered and must be accepted by people through acts of repentance and living faith in Jesus. All the sacrifices, laws, and prophecies of God’s coming salvation were fulfilled in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
While on trial before the Sanhedrin (the Jewish Supreme Court), the Apostle Peter emphasized the saving work of Jesus on the cross when he said,
“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven…by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Later the Apostle Paul tells the Philippian jailer,
“Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31).
Paul then tells his young protégé Timothy,
“[God] wants all people to be saved” (1 Timothy 2:4).
And the angel instructed Joseph about naming God’s Son,
“You are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins”
(Matthew 1:21).
Jesus is the Way—the only way—to salvation.
Thirty-three miners became trapped beneath two thousand feet of rock in 2010 when their tunnel collapsed. Their only hope of getting out was to be rescued from above. Teams worked around the clock trying to reach them before it was too late. First, they built a capsule in which the miners could rise to the surface. Then they began to drill. Two months later, the miners were finally reached—and by climbing into the capsule, they were saved. They couldn’t save themselves, of course, but they couldn’t ignore the capsule either.
God sent His Son to save us from our sins, and we must respond by putting our trust in Him. Do you trust Jesus for your salvation?