Come Sojourn with Us
This is where you will find sermons and updates for our church. Our mission is to preach expository sermons focusing on the gospel of Christ. We are a church that is tied to the reformed tradition and seeks to submit to the scriptures so we walk in the Lord’s wisdom rather than our own.
We would love to have you join us on our Christian sojourn if you are in the Belgrade, MT area. If you are not in area then join us by listening to our bi weekly free sermon podcast.
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As human beings who sojourn through this world we can think that we are doing well. The problem is that we might not have the clearest picture on life. The tragedy of our existence is that we do not naturally want to pursue God. How do we then interact with God? Is God our enemy? How does God's grace and power overcome our hopeless situation?
We want to think that we are pretty good and our struggle is rather minimal. So, we want to think that we are good enough and wise enough to see the light. So, we come to Christ because we desire Christ seeing him as the way of life. The problem is that we humans underestimate the depth of our sin and depravity. We fail to see that we are completely unable to enter into the Lord's presence by our doing. So, is there any hope in our predicament? How can we have hope when even Paul the Pharisee cannot do enough to earn the Lord's favor?
If we were left with the news that we are a people who naturally hate God and our neighbor then there is no reason to continue to move forward in life. In fact, our lives would be meaningless without any purpose at all. However, the message of the gospel is not something where we just hope we will arrive. If we are sinful, if we naturally hate God and our neighbor, then how do we really turn to the Lord?
James desires us to see and believe that God is the giver of all good things. This might sound strange considering that James just talked about the suffering that we will endure in this life. Why is it so important to see that God is good? Do we vainly hope that God is good or is there another issue and problem that we need to own which prevents us from seeing God’s goodness?
The interaction between Christ and Nicodemus communicates that there is a problem. It is a problem with the human condition and not a problem with the Lord. We can understand on one level the complexity of redemption, but on the other level we fail to see how complex it is. Nicodemus is shocked by the proposal of a new birth because Nicodemus hears that he needs to be part of another family or another genealogy. Christ is telling him that this is partly true, but it is not a genealogy tied to a family in this world. So, what genealogy matters? What genealogy do we want to have? How do we attain this genealogy and the necessary birth?
All conservative Christians agree that the human race is divided between those who believe in Christ as their savior or those who do not believe in Christ. The issue is how do we receive our faith or come to an understanding of the truths in Scripture? Is faith a gift that we receive by reaching up our hand to the benevolent giver or does the benevolent giver impose this gift upon us? So, is this a gift that the Lord imposes on us or is this a gift that we can return it?
We are a bible believing church in the Belgrade, MT. We are a Reformed Protestant church who desire to build one another up in love as we sojourn under the sun.
