Evident Church

GOSSIP? People of God when will this Stop. Gossip = the spreading of UNKNOWNS (true or not). Leaders will discuss things, but a good leader will get the FACTs before sharing it with the world. GET YOUR FACTS, ALL THE FACTS before you open your mouth! Gossip, often times, is the talk behind someones back when we are just to afriad to approach that person directly. GET YOUR FACTS! OR at least say, "Based on what I know, but I can't clarify it". GET YOUR FACTS! Come on All Chris tians have some INTEGRITY. I WANT TO QUASH SOME GOSSIP I'VE HEARD FROM MULTIPLY SOURCES: Andy and Aubrey Hazelet ARE NOT leaving Element Church! They will be back, doing what they do at Element. They are simply taking a Sabatical for the summer. Exactly like Pastor Jeff did last summer. Come on church! Show some INTEGRITY! One more thing, I am on a two-month sabatical as a jail chaplain. But guess what, I AM still a jail Chaplain, and I will resume my full jail chaplain duties in july. ...

CONVICTION? 2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 2 Timothy 3:1-7 (NASB) “But realize this, that in the last day’s difficult times will come.   For men, will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these... Claiming to be a Christian but no evident change. No transformation. Claiming to be -but living the opposite. Sunday Christians. Not even wanting God to require too much from them. always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” You can learn and learn, but if the Truth isn’t in your heart then learning ...

Is an apology an apology when you also try to justify or rationalize behavior behind the apology? Hmm, NOT really! You are blaming your behavior on something or someone else. A good godly principle is: "Simply say, I apologize." and leave it there; no excuses, no pointing fingers. Bottom line, even if others behaviors or choices influenced you, YOU had the final choice!

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...