Remembering the Past to Lead into the Future

As we get older, we gain a treasure that cannot be had any other way: experience.   It can only be learned “the hard way”, however, its fruits can be shared.  A good person will try to pass on the treasures of wisdom he or she has gained by experience and a wise person will try to learn them.  Unfortunately, experience is often forgotten, underrated, or misused. It is sometimes forgotten by us, and we miss out on many important benefits thereby  repeating past mistakes and relearning things we once knew. It is often underrated, and people repeat mistakes  unnecessarily.  Finally, …

Special Speaker Today

Today we have the privilege of hearing what God is doing in Central Africa.  Rev. Kevin Cassidy, director of advancement for Central Africa Baptist University, will be speaking here today in both our Sunday School and Morning Service.  He will encourage us with the great things God is doing in the lives of people around the world and challenge us with the mandate we have all been give to fulfill the Great Commission.  Kevin is an experienced pastor, serving churches in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Maryland before accepting this position at the University.  We look forward to his ministry with us …

Caring for the Children of the World

Does God care about children?  I hope you don’t have to ask that.  All over the Bible we see God emphasizing the importance of children and the blessing that they are.  In the Gospels we see Christ highly valuing kids and rebuking His disciples for trying to keep them away from Him.  The big question is, what is our view of children? In some homes today, children are the best cared for they have ever been.  Doting on and spoiling children is presented as the norm, as the thing good parents do.  Yet while  more money than ever is being …

The Beginning of Judgment

In the previous message on Revelation, we looked at the struggle of reconciling God’s love with the picture of His judgment painted in Revelation 6-22. That message discussed why bringing peace will require a massive final judgment.  In this next message on Revelation 6, we see the Lamb begin to open the scroll and judgment begins to fall.  The events pictured here are truly terrible, and they are only the beginning. This message will  not only take a look at the judgment, but discuss how the church is exempt.  We will take a brief look at the larger picture of …

Final Justice

What will it take to make everything right on the earth?  What will absolute justice look like, where people get what they deserve and evil is erased?  Will that ever happen?  The book of Revelation has the answers, but before looking at the details, we have to discuss the rational behind it all. In the study on Revelation 4, we saw how the holy God of the universe is deserving of all glory.  We saw that He alone possesses the right and authority to judge the earth and to do so justly.  In Revelation 5 we saw that Jesus, the …

Who is Worthy?

We ask this question often.  Right now there are people thinking “Who is worthy to go out with?” or “Who is worthy to marry?” Businesses are asking “Who is worthy to hire?” or “Who is worthy of this contract?”.  Each November election the nation is answering the question “who is worthy to lead us?”.  In just a little over two years we will once again be seeking to answer the question, “Who is worthy to be our President?”  Anyone? Regrettably, we often are faced with compromises, picking the lesser of two evils. As important as the President question may be, …

What do you know that you don’t really know?

In this information saturated world that we live in, facts and statistics are everywhere and can be accessed in milliseconds.  The problem is not knowing information, it is knowing the significance of it.  This is not a new problem! We have been challenged since the beginning to appreciating the significance of the information we have.  Our sense are constantly bombarding our mind with information and our brain has to sift through all that input and triage it according to importance.  The “sifting” process, however, is not always reliable as it is something we train. It is  largely built on prior …

What are you Seeking?

30 A.D. was a tough time to be a Jew in Jerusalem.  Oppression by Rome, corrupt rulers, oppressive taxes.  There was a deep longing for a deliverer, someone who would fix things and who would be a worthy ruler to follow; but what does that mean?  Do all agree one what it means to “fix things”? Does everyone agree on what a worthy ruler is?  We certainly don’t today! Things were no different in 30 A.D.  Everyone had a different idea of how things should be and who a worthy leader was.  This message looks at the Triumphal entry of …

Special Speaker

Enjoy a message on 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 brought to you by Mike Show. Mike is a ‘92 grad from Clarks Summit University. He worked for CSU from Aug of 93 to Feb of 2015 fulfilling many roles ( Admissions, Maintenance, Dorm Parent and Athletics- Asst AD , AD and Mens Basketball Coach).  He was then a principal for 4 years at Mekeel Christian Academy in Scotia , NY. He and his family moved back to Work at CSU in July of 2019. He currently works in Admissions and gets the opportunity to represent CSU to high schools, churches and camps …

Repulsive Christianity

So if God was giving out spiritual report cards, how do you think you would make out?  What criteria do you think God would use? As mentioned before, these seven letters in Revelation 2 nd 3 are spiritual report cards to the 7 seven churches and sadly, several need remediation. None of them, however, need it as badly as the Church in Laodicea. They have received, by far, the harshest reprimand.  On top of that, there is no praise, only an offer to repent and be a welcomed guest of Christ’s.  There sin?  Mainly pride.  It tends to be the …