Our great refuge!

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.  - Psalm 46:1

 The Scripture makes very clear to us in this verse, that God, our God, the Lord, the Creator of the universe, he alone is where we find refuge!

Refuge from our guilt, our sin, our inner struggle, our weaknesses, we can flee to him for refuge, for safety for comfort for consolation.

Our God will have compassion on us when we turn to him for help. He will keep us safe, he will keep our souls safe and secure, in him we are all refugees looking to him for sanctuary. We go to him and plead for asylum from the tyranny of our own transgressions. 

God gives us all the strength we need, in our weakness he is strong, we have no strength but for him, and him alone, and oh what a Savior, He rescues us when we are in the direst trouble, when we were at our worst, when we are beyond help and hope, he came to help us.

May he be our comfort and our rest,

in Jesus name, Amen!

Where does joy come from?

17 Though the fig tree should not blossom, 
nor fruit be on the vines, 
the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, 
the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, 
18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.  - Habakkuk 3:17-18


Rejoice in the Lord no matter what your circumstances are, our joy is in Him, not in what we have. 

Our joy is in the Lord and in what he has done for us in Christ Jesus!

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The resurrection of Jesus

God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. Acts 2:24

Hallelujah for the resurrection of Jesus, it was impossible for death to keep Jesus in the grave, to keep him in its grip!
God the Father did the impossible, he raised Jesus to life again, thereby vindicating the perfect righteousness and sinlessness of Jesus life. Jesus who never sinned could not be killed either, he gave up his life! He took our sin upon himself and suffered death in our place, so that we by God's grace could be forgiven!
The resurrection of Jesus forever silences his all his critics, whatever anyone ever says about Jesus that contradicts what Jesus says about himself, must be submitted to the acid test, surely the one resurrected is the one God the Father has accepted as true and faithful. Jesus is the way the truth and the life!

May we all continue to rejoice in the resurrection everyday of the year!

Pastor Gary Morrison