Mothers Day
https://yucca.church/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Mothersday.mp4 Have you ever wondered why we are who we are? Most of us, if not all, can trace who we are back to the cradle. It is the hand that rocks the cradle who has been the influencer and the developer of our lives. Today we celebrate “Mother’s Day”, a day set aside to […]
Agape Love
https://yucca.church/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/love.mp4 If I were to give one word to describe Christianity, that word would be LOVE. If I were to give one word to describe the entire contents of the Bible, that word would be LOVE. If I were to give one word to describe the Creator and Savior of the world, that word would […]
If You Love Me Keep My Commandments
https://yucca.church/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Commandments-1.mp4 It is important for myself to have someone capable of stepping into my place as pastor/teacher whenever the occassion may arise. Pastor Don is that person. Sometimes I simply cannot be there on a Sunday or a Wednesday night and I need help. I know that I can count on Don to cover even […]
What Does it Mean to be Baptised?
What does it mean to be baptized? – Why do we get baptized? And, who should be baptized? These three questions will be answered today. First, baptism is a public statement of faith in the presence of friends/family stating that you have chosen to follow Christ and He has saved you from the consequences of […]
Easter
Easter is the annual celebration of the day that Jesus rose from the dead. Easter means that our greatest enemy, death, has been conquered. Because He lives, we have confidence in tomorrow. Because He lives, we have no need to fear or even to worry. We know that He is our First Fruits and that […]
Hand Writing on the Wall
The most important day of all human history is the day that our sins were paid and mankind was reconciled to his Creator. So important is this day that God saw fit to place it as the centerpiece of His Word. There, in the center of the Bible, in Psalm 118, God wrote, “This is the Day the […]
ISRAEL IN PHROPHESY
When God called Abram (Abraham) from the City of Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the Land of Canaan, He made a very straight forward statement. God said, “I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you”. So many professing Christians today who claim to have accepted the […]
Church Ordinances
There are many rituals, sacraments or ordinances that are observed within the Christian Church. Most of these are based on denominational doctrines, although every denomination will claim some scriptural basis for the ritual. However, there are only two such ordinances that were commanded by Jesus and these are: Communion and Baptism. Here in the First […]
Be Filled With the Spirit
Sandi and I spent the first 20 years of our marriage serving as evangelist. We held services in the same California Prisons where I had come to know and grow in the Lord. God had called us to return to those prisons to tell the inmates of his love and grace. We encountered so many […]
Understanding the Gift of Salvation
As we continue defining our “Statement of Faith” we come to number 5 and 6 on the back of our weekly Bulletin. I am including these two together as I feel that one flows from the other and therefore can be better understood as one statement. Number 5 basically states that “man” was originally created in the image […]