Posts with the category “faith-promise-what-s-next”

Highlight In Romans 10, Paul discusses the necessity of faith in Christ for salvation and the role of preaching in bringing people to faith. He outlines a logical sequence: calling on the Lord require...  Read More

Highlight In Romans 15, Paul is writing to the Christians in Rome, summarizing his ministry to the Gentiles. He emphasizes that his work is not for personal glory but is accomplished through the power...  Read More

Highlight Jeremiah 6:16 is the theme verse for this year’s Faith Promise: What’s Next? It is a call to the people of Judah to return to the "ancient paths" during a time of moral and spiritual decline...  Read More

Highlight Revelation 7 is part of John's apocalyptic vision, where he sees a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language standing before God's throne. This vision occurs after the se...  Read More

Highlight In Matthew 24, Jesus is addressing His disciples on the Mount of Olives, discussing the signs of the end times and the coming of the Kingdom of God. Verse 14 highlights the necessity of the ...  Read More

Every year our church family looks forward to celebrating Faith Promise! This series is devoted to looking back on all that God has done through our church and our Outreach Partners to make a differen...  Read More

Highlight Online this week we’ll get to hear from Pius Nyakayiro from the Good News Jail and Prison Ministry. In 1994 Rwanda suffered a horrific genocide that killed more than 800,000 people. Pius him...  Read More

Highlight At our East Campus this week we got to hear from Khader Ghanim, the Executive Director of Seeds of Hope in Jericho, Palestine. While the Holy Land is often in the news, we rarely hear of the...  Read More

Highlight At our Henderson Campus this week we got to hear from Enoch and Wisdom Nyador of Ghana Christian Mission (GCM). Since its inception in 1987, Ghana Christian Mission has planted more than 240...  Read More

Highlight At our Bluffton Campus this week we got to hear from Leonid Matseyka. Leonid is one of several pastors that our church supports from Ukraine. We have been invested for more than 20 years in ...  Read More

Highlight Verses 18-20 of Matthew 28 are commonly known as the ‘Great Commission’. As we can see in this passage, it doesn’t take long for the good news of Jesus’ resurrection to face intense oppositi...  Read More

Welcome to Week 1 of the Faith Promise Reading Plan! This reading plan is designed to partner with Compassion Christian Church’s sermon series of the same name, which you can find information about ri...  Read More

Highlight Luke, the author of the Book of Acts, gives a very short summary of a massively impactful ministry. Paul spent approximately three years in Ephesus, an uncommonly long time in one place for...  Read More

Highlight Paul describes his own arrival to Corinth in 1 Corinthians 2:3 as him coming “in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.” This missionary journey that Paul has been on has not gone at a...  Read More

Highlight The Great Commission of Matthew 28 tells followers of Jesus that as we are going we are to make disciples, and in Acts 17 we see Paul doing just that. Paul is in Athens, a place he never in...  Read More

Highlight On the surface, Paul’s encounter with Lydia seems to be a random, providential event. However, there is far more intentionality in their meeting than we realize without knowing the Jewish t...  Read More

Highlight The conversion of Cornelius and his household is a massively important event in the history of the early church. Up until this point, every person whose conversion we have looked at has bee...  Read More

Welcome Welcome to Week 3 of the 2023 Faith Promise - Vision Week Reading Plan. This reading plan is designed to partner with Compassion Christian Church’s sermon series of the same name, which you ca...  Read More

Highlight The conversion of Saul is unique from the other conversion stories we have looked at during this Reading Plan. The main difference is that up until this point the examples that we have look...  Read More

Highlight As we mentioned yesterday, Acts 8 focused on the gospel spreading out from Judea to Samaria, just like Jesus said it would in Acts 1:8. This involves the gospel saving and restoring people ...  Read More

Highlight Acts 8 begins the story of the scattered church, where God uses the persecution that the church is facing to accomplish his original goal of the gospel spreading from Jerusalem to Judea, the...  Read More

Highlight In the Book of Acts there are several sermons given by Peter and Paul (primarily) that have a consistent pattern. Scholars call this the kerygma, which is the Greek word for “proclamation.”...  Read More

Highlight This passage of Scripture describes the birth of the church, the people of God under the covenant of grace. This is important because all of the conversion stories we’ve looked at, up until...  Read More

Welcome Welcome to Week 2 of the 2023 Faith Promise - What's Next Reading Plan. This reading plan is designed to partner with Compassion Christian Church’s sermon series of the same name, which you c...  Read More

Welcome Welcome to Week 1 of the 2023 Faith Promise - What's Next Reading Plan! This reading plan is designed to partner with Compassion Christian Church’s sermon series of the same name, which you ca...  Read More