The Resurrection and the Rapture

This Sunday, we are focused on the Biblical teaching on the second coming of Christ and specifically the idea of a "rapture" in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17.  I encourage you to read that portion of scripture, but let me just point out a few things of interest about the rapture.

1) The rapture is connected to the resurrection.  If the resurrection is a historical reality, then so too can we expect a rapture with great confidence.
2) The rapture is a great hope for all believers.
3) The rapture encourages all believers to live for Christ confident of His return.

Join us Sunday as we dig into 1 Thessalonians 4-5.  See you at the ARC at 10:15 AM.  Pastor Tom

Messiah is coming!

This Christmas season, we will focus on the first advent of Christ and His soon return.  I've been looking forward to this series for some time.  The Bible has a lot to say about end times events.  I am planning on three sermons - "Signs of the Second Coming", "The Rapture of the Church", and "The New Heavens and the New Earth."  

Without a doubt, the Bible teaches us to believe in a beginning and ending to human history as we know it.  How close are we to the end?  Is Jesus planning to return soon?  Get ready in December for the sermon series "Messiah is Coming!"  1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 says,  "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.  After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever." 

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