FOUNDATIONS 2021
Foundations | May 30th
May 30, 2021 • Geno Olisen
Guest speaker from August 2020, Geno Olisen talks about gratitude.
Vineyard Foundations | Fool For Christ
May 23, 2021 • John Wimber
In this special addition to our Foundations series, we are sharing about Vineyard Foundations, specifically, John Wimber's testimony. John Wimber was the founder of the Vineyard movement. In this humorous account, John tells how God drew him from the ranks of pagan-America into Christianity. He describes his first encounter with the Bible (“a book about Jewish people”), his perplexity over why there were no ashtrays the first time he went to church, as well as his own conversion.
Question 30 | What is faith in Jesus Christ?
May 16, 2021 • Robb Morgan
Faith in Jesus Christ is acknowledging the truth of everything that God has revealed in his Word, trusting in him, and also receiving and resting on him alone for salvation as he is offered to us in the gospel.
Question 31 | What do we believe by true faith?
May 9, 2021 • Robb Morgan
Everything taught to us in the gospel. The Apostles’ Creed expresses what we believe in these words: We believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from there he will come to judge the living and the dead. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.
Question 29 | How can we be saved?
May 2, 2021 • Robb Morgan
Only by faith in Jesus Christ and in his substitutionary atoning death on the cross; so even though we are guilty of having disobeyed God and are still inclined to all evil, nevertheless, God, without any merit of our own but only by pure grace, imputes to us the perfect righteousness of Christ when we repent and believe in him.
Question 28 | What happens after death to those not united to Christ by faith?
April 25, 2021 • Robb Morgan
At the day of judgment they will receive the fearful but just sentence of condemnation pronounced against them. They will be cast out from the favorable presence of God, into hell, to be justly and grievously punished, forever.
Question 27 | Are all people, just as they were lost through Adam, saved through Christ?
April 18, 2021 • Doug Peterson
1 Corinthians 15: 21, 22, Isaiah 64:6, Romans 3, Ephesians 2:1-3, Romans 6:3,4
Question 26 | What else does Christ's death redeem?
April 11, 2021 • Kelsey Thornton
Christ's death is the beginning of the redemption and renewal of every part of fallen creation, as he powerfully directs all things for his own glory and creation's good.
Easter 2021
April 4, 2021 • Robb Morgan
Yes, because Christ's death on the cross fully paid the penalty for our sin, God graciously imputes Christ's righteousness to us as if it were our own and will remember our sins no more.
April 2nd 2021 | Good Friday Service
April 2, 2021
Liminal, by Josh Fronduti and the Stations of the Cross, readings by Tabitha Dyer
Question 24 | Why was it necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die?
March 28, 2021 • Robb Morgan
Since death is the punishment for sin, Christ died willingly in our place to deliver us from the power and penalty of sin and bring us back to God. By his substitutionary atoning death, he alone redeems us from hell and gains for us forgiveness of sin, righteousness, and everlasting life.
2021 All Church Meeting
March 21, 2021 • The Elders, Robb and Julie Morgan, and Jo Stottlemire
This year's All Church Meeting led by Robb and Julie Morgan, Jo Stottlemire and our Elders.
Question 22 | Why must the Redeemer be truly human?
March 14, 2021 • Kelsey Thornton
That in human nature he might on our behalf perfectly obey the whole law and suffer the punishment for human sin; and also that he might sympathize with our weaknesses.
Question 21 | What sort of Redeemer is needed to bring us back to God?
March 7, 2021 • Robb Morgan
One who is truly human and also truly God.
Question 20 | Who is the Redeemer?
February 28, 2021 • Robb Morgan
The only Redeemer is the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, in whom God became man and bore the penalty for sin himself.