Worship last Sunday at Bethel Redding with Jeremy Riddle and Steffany Gretzinger.


Guest Post by John Inglis Re: Carl Trueman’s First Things Article “A Church for Exiles”


Guest Post by John Inglis Re: Carl Trueman’s First Things Article “A Church for Exiles”.

Tip of My Toes/I Have Found My Joy (Spontaneous Worship) – Steffany Frizzell Gretzinger


Muslim Man encounters Jesus (Arabic subtitiles)


The Sacred Power of the World by Stephen D. Blackmer- The New Atlantis


The Sacred Power of the World – The New Atlantis by  Stephen D. BlackmerBlackmer-photo_2-e1352148067619

Rock of Ages by Augustus Montague Toplady (1763)


Not the labor of my hands
Can fulfill Thy law’s demands;
Could my zeal no respite know,
Could my tears forever flow,
All for sin could not atone;
Thou must save, and Thou alone.

Nothing in my hand I bring,
Simply to Thy cross I cling;
Naked, come to Thee for dress;
Helpless, look to Thee for grace;
Foul, I to the fountain fly;
Wash me, Saviour, or I die.

While I draw this fleeting breath,
When mine eyes shall close in death,
When I rise to worlds unknown,
See Thee on Thy judgement throne,
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee

Two Great Temptations in the Christian Life–William Barclay


William Barclay 1907-1978There are two great temptations in the Christian life; and, in a certain sense, the better people are, the more susceptible they are to them. First, there is the temptation to try to earn God’s favour, and second, the temptation to use some little achievement to compare oneself with others to our advantage and their disadvantage. But the Christianity which has enough of self left in it to think that by its own efforts it can please God and that by its own achievements it can show itself superior to others is not true Christianity at all.

Barclay, William (2010-11-05). The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians (New Daily Study Bible) (p. 26). Westminster John Knox Press. Kindle Edition.

Christianity and the Tooth Fairy – John Lennox at The Veritas Forum at UCLA, 2011