Calvary Church Bergenfield

Sometimes decisions we have made send us to the Wilderness. We don't feel qualified for life and ministry. We need to run. We need to get away. We go to the Wilderness. And God meets us there.

Does God punish us? What does that mean? How do we understand Grace from a God who punishes? Hard questions, but good ones. Pastor Dan tackles them in this sermon.

The Wilderness is a fascinating place in Scripture. God brings us to the Wilderness for a variety of different reasons. Even Jesus went to the Wilderness...where he rested for a while, and then Satan came to tempt him. What can we learn from the tempting of Jesus? What instruction do we receive from the way Jesus responds? What hope does he give us?

The world is waiting for Christ to come again. And we wait with it. Today we look at how James compares our hearts to fields waiting for the second coming of our Lord.

As Christians, we wait in hopeful expectation for when Christ comes again. But the enemy of God waits in restless frustration, lashing out at God in the ways that he can...by striking at God's people. This week we explore, briefly, the reality that Satan is also waiting for the time when Christ comes again.