Pastor Marlene Soffera brings the message today from Matthew 9:35 - 10:8. Jesus sends out his disciples to preach to, and heal, the world. Just as what we have received was given to us freely, so are we to give.
The Trinity is one of the foundations of the Christian faith, but it's not an easy concept for us to grasp. Pastor Marlene Soffera leads us through some historical attitudes towards it and explanations of it.
Today Pastor Marlene Soffera takes Acts 2 for the main text as she brings us a message about Pentecost, and about the Holy Spirit.
Guest Speaker Timothy Montgomery brings us a message today based on Joel 2:25, where God informs us that He will pay us back for everything lost to the locusts. God will restore us, if we open ourselves to Him.
Guest Speaker Charlene Lovett from Bountiful Harvest Church of God Brings us advice from James, to 'look in the mirror.' To see ourselves, and to make changes.
Guest Speaker Genene Hibbler joins us from one of our sister churches to bring us a Mother's Day Message around the story of Ruth, using it to show us how we can make an impression on others for God.
In today's Message, Pastor Marlene Soffera takes us through how Jesus reacted, as explained in 1 Peter 2:19-25, and how that is to be our model for reacting to the world around us.
Pastor Marlene Soffera reminds us of Peter's words...that we are to love one another as if our lives depended upon it, because our own walk with God has expanded our capacity.
Pastor Marlene Soffera shares a story of her physical journey to the cross during one her prayer retreats
The year of the favor of of the Lord. What is that? Pastor Marlene Saffera talks to us of the Sabbath years and about the year of Jubilee.
The third task that forms part of His ministry, Jesus is to Release the oppressed. But who are the oppressed? Pastor Marlene Saffera walks us through a list of the oppressed and how Jesus ministry helped change things for them.
Jesus states the purpose of His ministry right at the beginning, after reading the passage from Isaiah in the Temple. Pastor Marlene Saffera goes over the four tasks.
As we come to the end of the series Pastor Marlene Soffera is preaching on the historical positions of the Church of God, we end with a classic question. There are a lot of subtle differences in how Christians think about issues, differences that, in the end, are not important for salvation. We can have these disagreements, but can we still get along? In the name of God, we must.
Pastor Marlene Soffera This week talks about the Church of God's history with various end-of-life issues.
You know. Those two subjects you're never supposed to talk about with family. Pastor Marlene Soffera does, as she takes us over some of the historical positions the Church of God has taken over the years.
It's been a strange week here at crossroads, so today's sermon actually comes from Peter Marshall, chaplain of the US Senate, and was read for us by Pastor Marlene Soffera. Prayer, while a necessary part of Christian life is also a dangerous part. We may choose how and what we pray, but God will choose how He answers, and it may not be in quite the way we expect. We may pray for patience, He may answer by sending us someone we must be patient with. Pray Dangerously.
Is The scripture all on the side of those to who women cannot be allowed to preach. Pastor Marlene Soffera takes us through some of the historical thinking within the Church of God on that subject.
Children, can you say Eschatology? Pastor Marlene Soffera takes us through various views of interpreting the Book of Revelation, and gives us the history of the Church of God perspective on it.
Continuing her series on what the Church of God believes, Pastor Marlene Soffera focuses today on the Church of God's teaching on the subject of how we relate to the sovereignty of God
God is unchanging. We read that repeatedly in scripture. But Pastor Marlene Soffera reminds us that we also read that even in His unchanging, He brings change. He brings about changes in us and in the world around us. He creates us anew, He creates things in the world around us for our good.
Pastor Marlene Soffera concludes the advent series with a message about our participation in the Kingdom, now that the incarnation has happened.
When Jesus came in the flesh, He came to all, rich and poor, young and old, jew and gentile, alike.
In the second of the series on the Advent, Pastor Marlene Soffera presents us with examples of how the people were prepared for the appearance of Jesus, along with how we should be prepared in our lives.
In this first sermon in a series about Advent, Pastor Marlene Soffera talks about the way the appearance of Jesus was anticipated, and how we should be anticipating
Pastor Marlene uses Habakkuk 3:17-19 to remind us that no matter the world gives us, we should rejoice in the Lord.
Pastor Marlerne Soffers reminds us that in the kingdom of PRIESTs the T stands for "Tell." We are to tell people about the Lord and His Love. (Apologies: a microphone died at about the 7:00 mark.)
As Pastor Marlene Soffera brings us the penultimate message in her sequence on Christians as a kingdom of priests, she uses Matt 23:23 as the base for talking about the sacrifices we must make. In this passage Jesus restates the prophet Micah's list as he boils down for the leaders of His day what is important to God; that we give ourselves, not just our money.
The E in PRIEST is for Encouragement. Pastor Marlene Soffera explains that encouragement takes many forms, and we should be performing them all as followers of Christ.
One of our duties as believers is to invite others to come along. Pastor Marlene Soffera shares some ways to do that, and some things not to do.
We read scripture both because it benefits us and because it benefits those around us. Pastor Marlene Soffera brings us a message that illumines the ways consistently reading scripture benefits us and others.
