Pastor Mac’s Table

  And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.      Matthew 16:18 The Church was God's idea. In Matthew 16:18 Jesus is saying that he will build his church, while Paul tells us he gave himself for the church, Ephesians 5:25. But, what does this mean? What is this church Jesus built? In the coming weeks I hope we can gain a deeper understanding of the church so that we will know what to expect of ourselves and of our leaders in the church. We have not gotten together inside church for six months. Experts say it will probably take another year to a year and a half before we can gather together to worship and to fellowship like we did before. So, I hope that as we take a new look at who we are as a church, that we will find new and better ways to be God’s church. First, the church is the assembly, the gathered ones, the ones called together by God.  Christ called us. He called us out of ...

  Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—  yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.  Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that. ”                                                                                                                                                              ...

Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?                                                                                                                                                      Genesis 4:9 "Am I my brother's keeper?" This question has echoed through the ages and is one that come to us today. "Am I my brother's (or sister's) keeper?" Am I? When we consider the question literally, most of us understand that we are responsible to care for our family members. Our society loo...

15Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.” Revelation 11:15 This means the coming the Kingdom of God is taking over the world. Yes, the kingdom has come but the final outcome of Rev. 11:15 is not here, yet. So, the Kingdom is coming. And it is a war fought by Christ and through his people, Christians.  Now this militant language may make some of us uncomfortable, but it is the language of the bible, take the Armor of God for example. But this is the most unusual war. It is not fought with weapons or with any physical force of man. Jesus already accomplished the winning battle as he died on the cross for our sins and rose again from the death to give us new life. In this Jesus broke the power of sin and death so that they no longer hold us in slavery. The good news that Jesus save is ground zero for the Kingdom of God. Ev...