Calvary Bible Church of Kalamazoo, Michigan

As you open with me to Joshua 1:8-9, may I remind all of you who already know this, and introduce any of you who do not—to the God whom we can know and trust through His Word.

The chief way that God has revealed Himself is through His Word. (Read More)

As we open to Rev. 1:3, may I remind you that there are seven reasons you should trust God's Word. These are the reasons we willingly seek to keep our minds filled with God's Word, the absolutely trustworthy record of God’s voice.

The first reason I am convinced of God's Word is Prophecy: God tells us exactly what He is going to do in the future, long before He does it. That act of God, declaring in minute, clear, and amazing detail the events of the future is called Biblical Prophecy.
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Please turn with me to the second to the last Old Testament book called Zechariah. There God gives us the key to understanding His plan for the last days of Earth. Everything in God’s mind centers upon one place, one city, one word and that is JERUSALEM.
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God has spoken. The words He spoke are God's Word the Bible. (Read More)

Can God be trusted? That is the bottom line of the doctrine of Inspiration.

The Bible makes the claim that every word of this Book is from God.

The Bible makes one huge scientific claim—God made the Universe, and we know and believe that: (Read More)

Creation is central to the Bible as the Creator Himself opens the pages of the Scriptures and introduces Himself.

The Gospel of Salvation from Genesis to Revelation is all about the Creator coming to save those created in His image. So, there is always in God's Word the Bible—a link between Creation, the Creator, and Salvation. With that in mind turn with me to the first ten words that open the Bible, Genesis 1:1.

What would be the most important message to every human on Earth?
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We are witnessing the most publicized, the most expensive, and perhaps what believers may one day look back at as a turning point election, in American history.

Yet we must always step back and look at each part of life from the perspective of God's Word.

The fact that we have any liberties to exercise our personal convictions and live as we do is such a gift from God.
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“Heaven and Earth shall pass away—but my Word won’t!” is what Jesus said. As we turn to Matthew 24:35 this morning, we each need to ask ourselves if we really do believe God, and affirm that belief by trusting this Book, the Bible.

The most powerful reason that I trust God's Word as absolutely trustworthy is the same reason you should: because Jesus did.

Our Savior, Jesus Christ, Lord of Heaven and Earth, believed during His earthly life, that the Bible was God's Word—and still does. (Read More)

Are you absolutely sure that you are headed to Heaven when you die?

If you believe that you are Heaven bound, have you checked to make sure that your faith is genuine saving faith? The best way to be absolutely sure is to line up what you believe with God's Word. Noah’s ark is a beautiful picture of the secure salvation we can have by faith in Jesus. (Read More)

Last week we saw the incredible security of being in God's Ark of Safety.

This week we see the other side, the outside of that Ark.

The same Hand that shut the door securely protected the eight inside, is the same Hand that sealed the doom of all outside.

God rescued eight, but no one escaped the extinction level event that hit the planet Earth just about 5,000 years ago—it was neither an asteroid nor a comet, it was a Flood.
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As we come to the fourth reason this is the Book You Can Trust, we remember that  we trust this Book because Jesus did.

In fact, Jesus believed, trusted, and commended God's Word so highly that he says God's Word is what we need for every part and every day or our lives.

Jesus gives each of us a single priority to check on, each day, for all of 2009. This priority is recorded in Matthew 4:4.
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This morning, as we open to II Corinthians 6, let me remind you that: each of us, are creatures of habit.

Habits shape our lives; and little by little, our habits are cementing us into a form that will someday be finished, revealing us for who we really were.

William James (1842-1910), in his classic Principles of Psychology (1890), put it this way: (Read More)

As we open to Matthew 4 we are opening to the greatest truth that all of us who are saved yet who are tempted to sin can learn. 

Jesus defeated each of Satan's greatest temptations—not in His blinding Omnipotence as God the Son, but in complete weakness as a man. After 40 days of no food and no rest from attack. Jesus defeated Satan using the same Scriptures we hold today.
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When Jesus faced off with the Devil His weapons were simple—three carefully chosen verses from God’s Holy Word. As we open to Revelation 2, we find that same Jesus writing to a church that had learned the same lesson—how to use God's Word to overcome and resist the devil, his demons, and their own flesh.
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As an eight year old, I will always remember learning one word in the sign language of the deaf—the Bible was the “Jesus” (signed by nail prints in hands) “Book” (signed by hands, palms together and then opening like a book)”.

What a perfect way to portray, describe, and express the truth of God's Word. Our Bibles really are, and should always be to us: the Jesus Book. (Read More)

As you open to Matthew 21, you open your Bibles to the start of the greatest week since our Universe was spoken into existence by its Creator.

On this day, Palm Sunday, Jesus entered Jerusalem at the time the Passover lambs were chosen. He proclaimed Himself as the Promised Messiah by riding on a donkey as prophesied in Daniel 9, coming from the East. But His true kingship would be demonstrated when He was sacrificed on the Cross as God’s Lamb.
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