Highlight This week we’re reflecting on the truth that God's invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action. Hebrews 11 is often referenced as the quintessential passage regarding faith. Here, the writer of Hebrews, takes the time to list out great heroes of the Jewish faith and there are a couple of important, common characteristics we should note that tell us something about the kind of faith that brings honor to God.  Read More

Welcome to Week 5 of the Experiencing God 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 right here. During this series, it is our hope that you will begin to experience the ways in which God is moving in your life and in the lives of those around you. Because the truth is, God is always at work in every detail. It is in our day to day lives that we forget to take the time to stop, reflect, and recognize the blessings, promises, and peace that God is providing for us.  Read More

Highlight It seems like the church in Corinth had a similar problem we all face - comparison. It is a trap we all fall into at some point about something. In this case, it seems the church in Corinth was elevating certain spiritual gifts over others - again, something we can often find ourselves doing.  Read More

Highlight Part of the comfort of Jesus is that he is fully man and fully God. Why should that be comforting to us? Because it means He has experienced the things we experience. Yet unlike us, He knows the full picture. His experience as a man and His knowledge of being God can provide great comfort to us. We can see that here in John 11.  Read More

Highlight Jesus declared himself to be the Good Shepherd (v 11). In our urban coastal setting here in the low country, the importance of this declaration does not reach us like it would have to the original audience. Jesus had been speaking to a divided audience, the Pharisees, or teachers of the law and prophets, and to the everyday rural Jew, who often were shepherds or knew many shepherds. Both of these groups would have immediately known what Jesus was speaking about, but even to them they would have received it differently.  Read More

Highlight The power of wisdom is that one typically knows what is happening or they have insight others do not have. Paul reminds us that our faith does not depend on the wisdom of “this age or the rulers of this age” (v 6). Those of the world find the message of salvation - Christ death and resurrection - weak and foolish. Because they are looking for earthly wisdom - power and show.   Read More