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O Happy Day? Yes Happy Day!

Wow what an amazing election season we’ve had so far. I think we can all agree that it will probably get even more brutal as time goes on. Perhaps the current display might have been semi comical if the political chaos wasn’t so personal. Our presidential nominees are putting on a full display indicating that…

Simpler Times

What a great age we live in. The amazing accomplishments that we enjoy not only as Americans, but also as all people living in our current time. The Baby Boomer generation accomplishments seemed to begin with the promise, of our sitting president, to be the first nation to land on the Moon. Not only was…

Love My Neighbor?

Psalm 2   David writing from the midst of Israel, Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing? A vain thing, plotting something that is empty or that will come to not.  2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against His…

Orlando Tragedy

In the aftermath of the Orlando tragedy, our first response here at CCJV is that our hearts break as we consider the carnage.  Next we are painfully reminded that the majority of the human race is existing in a misguided and even hopeless condition. Furthermore, we are forced to realize that often a life without…

REFLECTIONS

As we reflect in the Old Testament, the ancient writings have shown us that Moses bowed before the ark and met with God. The ark at that time rested in a tent. As time moved on, the ark was housed in a Temple built by King Solomon. That first Temple was used by the Lord…

OUR GOD SAVES

In Joshua chapter 6, the Lord tells us that the city Jericho had been given over to the nation Israel. The victory over Jericho had been secured by the Lord! Furthermore, Joshua tells us, Jericho was locked up tight. No one was allowed to come in or go out. Jericho knew the nation Israel was…

A WORD TO THE WISE

1 Timothy 3:14…you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Timothy had been saved by grace…

THE TRUTH BE KNOWN

As we have spent a portion of our lives “Seeking Truth” we must give credit where credit is due; the Bible. In the Bible we find a reemerging figure reveal Himself over and over. That figure is Jesus Christ himself. As we study the claims of the man Jesus, we quickly realize something. Jesus proclaimed…

THE BLINDING POWER OF OUR PRIDE

Isaiah 1:2 “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against Me; the ox knows its owner and the donkey its master’s crib; but Israel does not know, My people do not consider.” Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who are corrupters! They have forsaken…