Pastor Scott Andrews | March 14, 2021 Watch Listen Read For the past two years, The Christian & Missionary Alliance has been reviewing, updating and editing its Statement of Faith – its doctrinal statement. It had not been done since the 1960s, and I think the changes were largely in order. For example, the language […]
I JOHN 4:7-12
Pastor Scott Andrews | March 7, 2021 Watch Listen Read If I were to ask you, what is the love chapter in the Bible, most of you would probably say…I Corinthians 13. And it is a great chapter on love. Coming in the middle of three chapters on spiritual gifts, Paul says the gifts must […]
I JOHN 4:1-6
Pastor Scott Andrews | February 28, 2021 Watch Listen Read On January 24, 1848, James Marshall was building a lumber mill for John Sutter in Coloma, California. The mill included a waterwheel in a nearby stream to power the saw. While building Sutter’s Mill, Marshall noticed some shiny flecks in the water. He took the […]
I JOHN 3:19-24
Pastor Scott Andrews | February 21, 2021 Watch Listen Read There is an issue I want to briefly address this morning that has made the evangelical news. An elder and friend texted me this week and said of the issue, “To me, it was the worst thing that happened in 2020 – more that the […]
I JOHN 3:11-18
Pastor Scott Andrews | February 14, 2021 Watch Listen Read How appropriate that today is Valentine’s Day – a day set aside annually to express your never-ending love for that special someone. Traditionally, we express that love in certain ways on this day – flowers, candy, especially chocolates, and cards. It’s estimated the average expenditure […]
I JOHN 3:4-10
Pastor Scott Andrews | February 7, 2021 Watch Listen Read We’ve all heard it, usually alongside appeals for peace and unity. It typically goes something like this, “We are all God’s children.” But, is that true? It’s one thing when Oprah Winfrey, or other biblically illiterate celebrities, tweet, as she did in 2013, we are […]
I JOHN 2:29-3:3
Pastor Scott Andrews | January 31, 2021 Watch Listen Read Many of you are familiar with the annual celebration, primarily in New Orleans and other Roman Catholic cities, known as Mardi Gras. Beads, masks, dancing, drinking, parades, and more. The motto of the festival is, Laissez les bons temps rouler, (Leh-seh leh bon taw roo-leh), […]
I JOHN 2:24-29
Pastor Scott Andrews | January 24, 2021 Listen Read I want to begin this morning with a little doctrinal lesson. It’s a difficult concept to grasp – so difficult that an early church father named Tertullian, who lived in the late second and early third centuries, made up a new word to try to describe […]
The Inconvenience of Christmas
November 29, 2020
I JOHN 2:18-23
Pastor Scott Andrews | January 17, 2021 Watch Listen Read Jesus stood on the Mount of Olives with His disciples, forty days after the resurrection. He was about to ascend, that is, return to heaven. He had warned them in the Farewell Discourse, the night of His betrayal by Judas, the day before the crucifixion, […]