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As children of God we belong to the family of God. One of our members recently put together a short video on the family of God here in Cloudcroft and posted it to his youtube channel. It is worth the watch.

And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this? After the decree to kill the Jews was issued, Mordecai and Esther could have despaired, decided to save only themselves, or just waited for God’s intervention. Instead, they saw that God had placed them in their positions…

Who was Mordecai? Esther 2:5-6 Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, 6 who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon… Mordecai was an Israelite of the tribe of Benjamin….

Ephesians 5:11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. Two commands are offered in this verse. First, Christians are to completely avoid participating in sin. The command here implies that sin is a waste of time and associated with darkness, which is opposed to the light of those…

This week’s lesson will focus on Ephesians 5:11 and how we must not participate in the fruitless deeds of darkness but rather expose them. One way we do this is by focusing on how we live our day to day life. Ephesians 5:8 tells us that we were once darkness, but now you are light…

Webster’s defines “integrity” as follows: firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : the quality or state of being complete or undivided. This certainly describes Mordecai. His family had come to Persia as slaves, captives of Jerusalem’s last stand against the Babylonians. Yet even in enemy territory Mordecai succeeded in business….

Acts 2:41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. When one accepts the gospel of Jesus Christ, the fact that you are a sinner separated from God and that only through Christ can you be reconciled. When one is immersed into His name for…

Isaiah 58:6 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? The book of Isaiah begins in chapter 1 by exposing false religion that had the right form and ritual, but no true sincerity….

This weekend some of our members, including myself, will be traveling to Lubbock to see one of our former youth who plays for Tech as they take on TCU. Mark Johnson will be preaching this Sunday and he will bring an excellent message from God’s Word. Lord willing we will return safely sometime Sunday afternoon….

Habakkuk 2:4 …the righteous person will live by his faithfulness. Has any brief slogan made a bigger impact than this one? For Habakkuk, this meant that righteous people must patiently trust God during difficult times. The idea of trusting God even when everything seems to be going wrong is expanded in the New Testament. Habakkuk…