God wants everyone to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. One truth that we need to acknowledge is that there is more to life than what we get to experience on this earth. For those of us in Christ, we get to experience the beauty and joy of an eternity with God in Heaven. But we also know acknowledge the reality of Hell, which Jesus describes in very drastic ways as a warning. We need to make sure we are living in light of eternity and taking full advantage of God's gift of salvation.
God is offering the gift of salvation to everyone, but we need to make an intentional decision to receive the gift. Peter's sermon in Acts 2 helps us understand what it looks like to accept God's offer of salvation: obeying Jesus as our master, trusting him as our savior, and being reborn through repentance and baptism
Life to the Full
March 5, 2023 • Bryan Fojtasek
Salvation is not just a future promise--it's a present reality. Jesus' ministry gives us a glimpse of what it looks like to experience "life to the full," a phrase which he connects to the idea of salvation in John 10:7-10.
Set Free From Sin
February 26, 2023 • Bryan Fojtasek
We all need to be rescued from the power of sin and death, but only Jesus has the power to set us free. In this message we explore the metaphor of slavery in the Bible so that we can understand the way Jesus has set us free.
Setting Captives Free
February 19, 2023 • Bryan Fojtasek • Acts 16:16–34, John 8:31–32
What must I do to be saved? There are countless important questions we wrestle with throughout our lives, but there's nothing more important than understanding how to find salvation. God carefully orchestrated a series of events that led to a Roman jailer asking this question in the context of God setting captives free. And that helps us understand that salvation is about freedom. The takeaway for us is that Jesus wants to set us free from everything that holds us captive.
