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Come Down Lord: We Wait for You!

Come Down Lord: We Wait for You!


Now many of us could confidently say we've been waiting for God. But have we been waiting for God the right way? What does it mean when you say you are waiting upon God? Does it mean you are in church 24/7 singing and praying and crying and complaining why God is not coming faster? Doest mean being overzealous and cutting yourself off from the rest of life, and beginning to live in a convent or monastery?
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Fidelity to the Truths vs Maintaining Christian Unity in the Church

Fidelity to the Truths vs Maintaining Christian Unity in the Church


On one hand, we as the people of God have an absolute obligation to maintain our loyalty to the faith as it has been once for all delivered to the saints.  But on the other hand, we are taught in the word of God to show charity, and a spirit of love and grace and toleration and acceptance toward those with whom we disagree: even with whom we disagree about matters taught in Holy Scripture.
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How to Understand Bible Paradoxes and the Apparent Contradictions in the Bible

How to Understand Bible Paradoxes and the Apparent Contradictions in the Bible



How do you read the Bible and how you think about what you read in the Bible? In this series of messages, Dr. Rayburn's analytical exposition of polarities in the bible will set side by side biblical truths that are very difficult to reconcile and through this juxtaposition of truth, you will learn how to understand the apparent contradictions in the Bible. 


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A Good Man

A Good Man


What is your aspiration? Are you aspiring to be great? Is your aspiration is to be a great business person in this community? Are you aspiring to be a great surgeon someday; or to be a great preacher, or a great mother and wife or a great teacher? Well, a little dose of modesty would be very helpful because the Bible says that he who exalts himself will come down. And so a little bit of humility about life would be very healthy. 

Rather than aspiring to be great, just aspire to be good. That's all. Just good. Well, that might be achievable, you think, well. Let's look at Barnabas.
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Come Down Lord: We Miss You!



Is it possible that a church can intellectually understand the foundations of faith, theologically believe the doctrines of Scripture, daily go through the emotion of Christian living: and yet miss the power of God at work in the lives of its members? Today's church is full of people who are not worshipping God for who he is, but for what he promises to give them. Today's church is a church that is longing, hungry and empty; and yet looking in the wrong places to fulfil its needs. 

Come down Lord, we miss you. We can't imagine going through this year without you. We want to become those people that once enjoyed your fellowship, that once experienced your power, that once basked in the sunshine of your love. This is the commitment that this message is asking of you, that this year is going to be a year of longing and waiting, hungering for more of God, rethinking and refocusing our relationship with God. That this year is going to be a year where the Church will cry for God's smile; cry for God's helping hand; and cry for God's caring heart.
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Is Your Theology of Suffering Correct?

Is Your Theology of Suffering Correct?


A theology of something means you look at that thing in its big perspective. To get a proper understanding of the theology of suffering, for example, you ask questions like: what is the purpose of suffering? Where does suffering come from? What does it accomplish? How is God related to suffering? What is God doing in suffering? That is what we mean by a theology of suffering. 

If you derive your understanding of suffering on the basis of Job chapters 1-31, you will end up with a theology of suffering that recognizes the following basic facts:
(1) God rule,
(2) God is just and wise;
(3) God's ways are hard to understand but
(4) In the age to come, all wrongs will be righted and justice will be established.
(5) God has loved us and saved us in Christ.
(6) Trust God in your suffering.

This theology is not bad, but it is a narrow, partial and inadequate theology of suffering.

In this message, Dr. David Eby brings to our attention a complete and adequate theology of suffering that he expounds to us in the context of the Speech of Elihu in Job 32-37 and the rest of the Bible. Let us listen to him as he teaches us the word of God.
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