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Upcoming Sermons & Devotional Message
February Sermons 2026
2/8 - Staying in Love
Ruth 1:16-17 Jude 20-21
2/15 - Transformed
Matthew 17:1-8 Romans 12:1-2
2/18 - Ash Wednesday Service
The Reason
Matthew 18:11
2/22 - Jerusalem
Isaiah 45:20-25 Matthew 20:18-19
Devotional Message : These will change 1-2 times a week. Stop by often to read the new message.
Some Thoughts on the Reliability of the Bible
If you want to grow into the fullness of the life God offers, be willing to trust the reliability of the Bible.The Bible is not merely a book—it’s a library of sixty-six books written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit by forty authors using multiple literary styles over 2,400 years. As Christians, we believe the Bible is the sufficient rule of faith and practice—but skeptics often try to undercut our belief in its reliability.
For example, the Book of Isaiah opens with these words:
“The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw.” (Isaiah 1:1)
The prophet Isaiah wrote the book that bears his name between 740 and 680 B.C. Isaiah spent most of his life in Jerusalem, and many consider him to be the greatest of the writing prophets because of the depth, breadth, and beauty of his work.
He’s also been called the fifth evangelist (after the gospel authors Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) for his depiction and explanation of the Messiah’s death (Isaiah 52:13-53:12). There’s some indication he died a martyr by being sawed in two (Hebrews 11:37).
Prior to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the earliest copy of the book of Isaiah was dated around A.D. 935—over a thousand years later. The Dead Sea Scrolls (discovered in 1947) include a nearly complete scroll of Isaiah from just before 100 B.C. Since Isaiah wrote nearly seven hundred years before Jesus, and since our earliest copy of Isaiah was from around nine hundred years after Christ, critics assumed the biblical text was corrupt because of so many years of copying.
But when scholars compared the Dead Sea Scrolls copy of Isaiah (from 100 B.C.) to the later copy of Isaiah (from A.D. 935), they were nearly identical. Most differences were because of spelling, and no differences affected the meaning of the text. This is because the biblical texts were copied by people who believed they were preserving the very words of God.
This is just one of many examples that offer a preponderance of evidence that proves the reliability of the Bible.
I encourage you to approach reading and studying God’s word with faith, not skepticism, my friends!