Audio Messages

Today many who claim to have faith only seem to have wish. The greatest problem Pastor Ken sees in God’s church today is not resources. We have more resources of communication, information, educated people, and freedoms to do things. The problem is we often treat faith more like a wish which is an apathetic and fearful approach that will produce little work of value. Faith must work! It takes determination, persistence, discipline, and strength to hold on to faith.

Set sail on a great adventure and learn through faith with Jesus Christ. Our Lord never leaves us or forsakes us in the storms of life. We need to trust in Jesus through all seasons of life.

In today's text Jesus is revealing to His disciples and the other people that are listening that they need to be stones of faith not impressed by the stones of a religious or political system.

In Luke 17:11-19, Luke tells the story of 10 lepers who were healed. Nine of the lepers went away and did not thank Jesus. Only one leper came back to thank Jesus. Jesus said to this leper, "Your faith has saved you." The leper goes back to gratitude. In this message Pastor Ken asks the question, why do we need to go back to gratitude? Life can be full of disappointments. We live in a false world, and this greatly affects our attitude towards gratitude. And we have to keep reminding ourselves to repent or go back to gratitude.

God gave everything to us when he died on the cross. He gave total surrender of His good soil to amend the thorny, rocky, and hard soil of our hearts. He gave us perfect love.

The subject of the text in Luke 17:26-37 is very difficult. It speaks about what the condition of the world will be like when God comes back to bring His final judgement, but because Jesus loves us so much He wants us to be ready for that day, He tells us the truth even when it is uncomfortable.

The parable in Luke 16 about Shrewd Manager can be a confusing one. At first glance it may appear as though Jesus is approving of the manager's dishonest behavior. Jesus is not giving any approval here for dishonesty or corruption, instead He is trying to teach us something about how we should manage our lives with integrity.

Faith is not passive! Faith is fight! The world, the devil, our own flesh war against us constantly. The fight is to remember to claim victory in faith through this life's battles! Many lose the battle because they are wasting their energy fighting the wrong battle. And then still others lose it because they do not recognize they are in a battle. In Luke 13 we explore how Jesus is teaching us how to win.

He has risen! Celebrate the resurrection of Jesus!

Jesus died to make us new. When we follow Jesus we must commit to being new. Looking back is not fit for the glory of the kingdom of God. Repent and turn from your old life of death and sin and turn to follow Jesus and let him bring you new life and life to others.