Evident Church

Fullness of Life!  Pastor Gregg Introduction:            Hi everyone. I am Pastor Gregg of Next Steps Ministries. Thank you for being here. I know, expect and believe that hearts will be softened, and lives will be changed today. Amen! How can I be so confident of that? Because I know whom I serve. He’s changed my life, so I know He can change yours. And whether you believe in Christ or not, I’m glad you are here. At Next Steps, our number One Core Value is that “Every Life Matters!”. Today is Easter. Most of us know the story of Easter and why we celebrate it. We celebrate the death and resurrection of Christ. And what a great thing to celebrate. To know that we can be reconciled with God and have eternity with him because of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross.   1 Corinthians 15 Christian Standard Bible (CSB) Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel I preached to you, which you received, on which you have tak...

Do Not Judge Me? Pastor Gregg Crisp Matthew 7:1-3 says, “Do not judge, so that you won’t be judged. (Pause) For you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others, and you will be measured by the same measure you use. Why do you look at the splinter in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the beam of wood in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a beam of wood in your own eye? Hypocrite! First take the beam of wood out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother’s eye.  (Judge=krinō (krē'-nō)  “Christians often cite those verses when being challenged or getting called on a sin problem in their life. You’ll hear, “Don’t judge me” or “The bible says not to judge” and they’ll use this verse as their defense:”  “In my opinion, people use those verses as a way to escape taking personal responsibility and being h...

The historical evidence for the resurrection of Christ is very good. Scholars such as William Lane Craig, J.P. Moreland, Gary Habermas, and others have done an especially good job of detailing that evidence.1 It is the aim of this article to offer a sort of synthesis of some of their key points and show the strength of the historical evidence for the resurrection of Christ. A method commonly used today to determine the historicity of an event is "inference to the best explanation." William Lane Craig describes this as an approach where we "begin with the evidence available to us and then infer what would, if true, provide the best explanation of that evidence." In other words, we ought to accept an event as historical if it gives the best explanation for the evidence surrounding it. When we look at the evidence, the truth of the resurrection emerges very clearly as the best explanation. There is no other theory that even come close to accounting for the eviden...