If you step into any public school all the way from primary to university, you’ll hear that our founding fathers were old, rich, racist bigots who indulged in slavery. You’ll hear that America was built on secularism and that God was never a part of American history, therefore, we have the separation of Church and State. Now, when we look at actual history and not the propaganda taught to us by the school system, will we truly find that our forefathers were evil godless men? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he opens our eyes to the truth about the birth of this nation and the founding fathers in his Independence Day Message, Our Founding Fathers.
This life isn’t easy. The world gets more and more evil with each generation. The Church itself grows weaker and weaker with each generation as well. Why? Because we grow weary. We become spiritually tired and are unable to keep going. We become unable to carry our cross. So, what are we to do? Why should we keep going? What’s the point of all of this? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he encourages us to keep going in our walk with Christ in his message, Let Us Not Grow Weary.
6 Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. 7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. 9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
Galatians 6:6-10
1Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3 And this we will do if God permits. 4 For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. 7 For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. 8 But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned. 9 Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation. 10 For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. 11 And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, 12 so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
There are many good father figures in the Bible to look up to. There are many that are hailed as heroes of the faith and often spoken of and remembered, but there are also those that don’t truly get the recognition they deserve. Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he sheds some light on an overlooked father figure in his Father’s Day Message, A Father’s Legacy.
The LORD God has promised good things to those who love Him and are called according to His purposes. So, what does that have to do with Pentecost that took place 2000 years ago? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he shows us a Light in the darkness in his Pentecost Sunday message, The Hope of Pentecost.
God gave the people of Israel 7 feasts to celebrate. 3 of these feasts were a mandatory pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks), is one of them. This feast was fulfilled by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which was the birth or founding of the Church. Is there anything else to feast? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he opens our eyes to a mystery of the Feast of Weeks, in his Shavuot message, Two Loaves.
Leviticus 23:15-21 Hebrews 10:1a Matthew 28:1 Proverbs 25:2 Matthew 16:6-12 Jeremiah 33:19-22 Romans 11:13-15 Acts 27:22 Romans 11:25-27 Romans 11:17-21 1 Corinthians 10:16b-17 James 1:18
Once a year, we remember our fallen soldiers. We take time out of our busy schedules in order to honor their selfless sacrifice. Their sacrifice is often overlooked and forgotten, but this weekend, let us take a moment to remember, honor, and give thanks for their sacrifice. Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he opens our minds to a parallel sometimes overlooked in the Church, in his Memorial Day message, Remembering The Price of Freedom.
Today’s Church often prays for revival and a move of God in the same way we read about in the New Testament. We pray for these things, but rarely see them. Why? Has God stopped moving in the Church? Was His Spirit and Power just for a time? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he opens our eyes to the secret to revival in his message, Living A Mediocre Christian Life.
Ephesians 1:15-23 Luke 18:8 Romans 2:13 James 1:22 Matthew 15:8 (Isaiah 29:13) 2 Chronicles 7:14 Mark 9:23b James 2:19 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 Romans 8:11 Matthew 11:12b Hebrews 5:11-14 Matthew 12:34a Matthew 23:33 Luke 18:8b
The Christian Standard
Living A Mediocre Christian Life
15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, 16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His great might 20 that Hhe worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. 22 And He put all things under His feet and gave Him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
Ephesians 1:15-23
11 About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, 13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. 14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
From the very beginning of a person’s life, conception, a person depends on their mother. A mother will carry their baby for nine months, and then once they have given birth to their child, they will breastfeed, nurture, and love that baby. The bond between mother and child is unlike any other that we have on this earth. A mother’s love is like none other, as is the heartbreak of a mother is unlike anything we have on this earth. Join Rev. Kenny Yates as he touches our hearts with his sobering message, A Mother’s Unconditional Love.
Throughout the Bible, we see story after story and account after account of miracle after miracle. Each account leaving you wondering why we no longer see these kinds of miracles. Were miracles just for the past, or are they for us today as well? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he opens our eyes to the key to water splitting faith in his message, Step Into The Water.
Joshua 3:14-17 Isaiah 55:8-9 2 Corinthians 5:7 Joshua 3:8 (NKJV) Joshua 3:11-13 Romans 8:11 Joshua 3:13 Acts 3:6 (KJV) 2 Corinthians 5:7 2 Corinthians 4:13 Acts 3:1-10 Matthew 9:22b John 14:26 John 15:26 Ephesians 4:13-14 1 Corinthians 3:2 Hebrews 5:11-12 (NLT) Isaiah 43:2 Isaiah 45:2 1 Corinthians 3:16 Acts 1:8 John 16:33b Acts 3:6 Psalms 16:8 1 Peter 2:24 John 16:23-24 John 14:13-14
Miracles of The Bible
Step Into The Water
14 So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people, 15 and as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest), 16 the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho. 17 Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.
Joshua 3:14-17
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
With each generation, the world becomes more and more tolerant of sin and more and more intolerant of righteousness. From childhood, our public school system teaches us that God is not necessary for life to exist. In other words, because we are here, there is no need for a god. That might sound decent until you begin to look at the actual history of godless civilizations. One thing they all have in common is the lack of morality and conscience. So, with the rise in unbelief in the world and the push for a godless society, should we not prepare for the biggest threat our generation has ever seen? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he opens our eyes to the pressing threat against our freedoms in his message, The Threat of Atheism.
1 Timothy 4:1 Acts 4:12 John 13:35 Hosea 4:6 2 Timothy 2:15 1 Peter 3:15 James 5:16 Matthew 5:14-16 Matthew 22:37-40 Matthew 6:33 (KJV)
The Rising Threats
The Threat of Atheism
1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 2 through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, 3 who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5 for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.
1 Timothy 4:1-5
35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
