To attack Christianity at some point you have to attack Jesus. This isn’t true with other world religions. Their founders are not essential to their message. Christianity is different. It rests on the historical person, words, and work of Jesus Christ. No Jesus? No Christianity. No Jesus as Christians claim? Christianity is nothing special.

In this message we tackle the question, “Is Jesus who Christians claim him to be?” As we’ll see, a skeptic with an open mind will find there is plenty of evidence to say, “Yes, he is.” If he is, then he commands our singular allegiance and faith.

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One of the most formidable challenges to the authority of scripture has been the rise of modern science and its findings. In this message we’ll try to answer the question, do science and scripture conflict, or does a well-educated, intelligent person have to give up belief in the Bible (or at least belief in Genesis 1-11) to be a Christian? 

Notes for this sermon can be found here.

Perhaps the best way to undermine Christianity is to attack the Bible. The Bible claims to be record of real events, speeches, and writings. It is open to historical falsification. The Bible has been attacked as being historically incorrect, textually corrupt, and scientifically inaccurate.

In this message we will learn five reasons we can have confidence in the Bible as an accurate and supernaturally-given record and therefore as a book we can trust to build our faith and life on.

Notes for this sermon can be found here.

Skeptics ask the same question Christian believers often ask, “Why is there so much pain and suffering if God is a good and all-powerful God?” Skeptics often use that question as a reason to not believe in God. But is that a good and sufficient reason? Those of us who believe in God wonder and may be tempted to think God has forgotten us or doesn’t care when pain and suffering come our way.

The Bible gives sufficient evidence that God is good and all-powerful, and it also gives us reasons why a good God might allow pain and suffering. It doesn’t answer all our questions, but eliminates the charge that a good God could never permit suffering, as we’ll see.

Notes for this sermon can be found here.

Linus of Peanuts comic strip fame annually tried to get his friends to sit with him in a pumpkin patch on Halloween evening to await the rising of the Great Pumpkin who would give gifts to all the children who believed in him. Understandably his friends were skeptical and rarely accompanied him.

Is belief in God like belief in the Great Pumpkin? Some think so. Both are imaginary in their thinking. Yet belief in a god or gods pervades human culture and the majority of Americans say they believe in God. Are they deluded? Is there evidence for the existence of God or should we give up this belief like we would a fairy tale? That’s our subject in this message in our series Healthy Doubt-Healthy Faith,

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Have you ever had a doubt about anything Christians teach or believe?

Today are beginning a new series called ‘Healthy Doubts-Healthy Faith’ in which we’ll examine some common doubts and questions unbelievers and believers have about Christianity.

Before we can do that we need to ask the question, “What does God think about doubt?” Some say that if we have faith we should never doubt, or if we have doubts we lack faith. Is this how God thinks?

To find out, we’ll explore some Biblical examples of doubt. We’ll discover that there are two basic types of doubt, and which kind we have makes all the difference in answering our question. It also makes a big difference in how we approach our own questions and doubts.

Sermon notes can be found here.