Yesterday, the United States of America celebrated its 250th milestone, marking 2.5 centuries of victories, struggles, prosperity, and hardship. We thank God for the freedoms we enjoy: the opportunity to freely worship, along with many other blessings bestowed upon our country. 250TH BIRTHDAY OF AMERICA: OUR HOPE IS STILL IN GOD Although millions of Americans today place their hope in material possessions, which become their gods. But, that is what our nation is built upon –

Very often, it seems that life is one long uphill struggle. We finish one difficult period only to go into another one. One battle after another. I’m sure most of us have heard someone say that when you become a Christian everything in life will be better. There are no struggles, no trials – everyday is perfect. It is true that everything changes for the better – your attitude, your values, your priorities, and so on. But very often in Scri

The Greatest Gift to give a father on Father’s Day is the same one that is the best gift to give a mother on Mother’s Day. God Himself tells us that greatest gift in His Word in the 5th Commandment. Honor your father and your mother. God gave us the 10 Commandments to instruct us how we should live – how we should live toward Him, and how we should live toward one another. Honor means to regard a person with great respect, to esteem them, or to give recognition to them. Honor

But some days later Felix arrived with Drusilla, his wife who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus. But as he was discussing righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix became frightened and said, “Go away for the present, and when I find time I will summon you.” Acts chapters 24 and 25 cover one of the most vital truths and teachings about standing firm in our faith and proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord in the face of

PRINCETON CHRISTIAN CHURCH ACTS 4:1-12 June 7, 2026 Acts 4:1-12 As they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them, being greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they laid hands on them and put them in jail until the next day, f

What happens to a person when he or she neglects to consider the Lord Jesus Christ in their life? That person brings judgment on their life as they fail to give Jesus Christ priority in their life. When God is banished from a person’s life, his life fits the description of the life given here in the Scriptures. A most terrible description of a most terrible person. Look at the dreadful things which enter a life without Jesus Christ: 28 And just as they did not see fit to ackn

Some years ago, an American economist wrote in a national magazine and said: “The health of the American economy depends upon the ability of the American consumer to take on more debt.” Now, I am no economist or financial wizard, but that statement sounds a bit off. It totally runs the opposite to what we read in Deuteronomy which says that anyone who owes to another is the slave of that person. Paul, in one of his writings reinforces that truth – and, in fact, plainly writes

INTRO.- Today we are here to worship the Lord and honor our mothers. Not only are we commanded to honor our mothers; it’s also the sensible and loving thing to do. Many of us here today would love to still have our mothers living, so we could honor them in person as we remember them and love them. ILL.- A six-year-old boy, separated from his mother in a supermarket, began to walk around the store yelling out: “Martha! Martha! Martha!” That was his mother’s name,

Blow a trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, For the day of the Lord is coming; Surely it is near, A day of darkness and gloom, A day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn is spread over the mountains, So there is a great and mighty people; There has never been anything like it, Nor will there be again after it To the years of many generations. A fire consumes before them And behind them a flame burns. The la

“Blessed are you, O Israel; Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord; Who is the shield of your help and the sword of your majesty. So, your enemies will cringe before you. And you will tread upon their high places.” Deuteronomy 33:29 Those words, of course, were written to the people of Israel. In the Christian age today, we might rephrase this verse to read like this: “Who is like you, O Christian, who are saved by the Lord Jesus Christ?” The life that is lived in Jesus

13 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He was asking His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.” 15 He *said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 And Jesus said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not re

Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas

Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs. If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” John 11: 47-48 On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, an Therefore the ch

The people of Israel had been saying that God was unfair and unjust in His dealings with them. They expected that God should save all of them because they were His chosen people. Though they were God’s chosen people, they had sinned greatly against Him. But they really expected that in their time of trouble, He would overlook their sin and save them. In their unwillingness to accept the responsibility for their own sins, the accused God of unfair treatment. The thinking of th

Most of us, I think, when we are beginning to start a new venture or task, or even learning a new job – we have to think about what the purpose is in doing that task. Learning what the purpose of that task is will help us to learn how to complete it properly and to its best advantage to us. So, with that thinking in our minds this morning, I want to ask a related question: Did you ever think about, or question: what the goal of the Gospel is? Did you ever think about what is

When we think about unconditional surrender, it is usually associated with the ending of a war or conflict between two or more countries. In our nation’s history, we have been engaged in disputes that culminated in war. The Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War. After fighting for some time against one another countries, or sides, realized the time has come to declare peace rather than continuing to fight ag

Today, we live in a world where changes are made every day. In the past 50 years or so, we have seen more changes – and dramatic changes than all those that were made in all the centuries before that time. Little more than 150 years ago, people were in awe of the “horseless carriage” replacing the previous mode of travel – horseback, or a carriage pulled by actual “horsepower”. Of course, now we know that horseless carriage as the automobile – which of course, increased the s

Have you ever taken a moment to reflect on just how much of our lives are consumed by the effort of cleaning? A considerable portion of each day is dedicated to this seemingly endless task. From the inviting corners of our homes, where toys gather dust, to the chaotic clutter of our garages filled with forgotten tools, we invest time and energy to restore order, only to find ourselves revisiting the same mess just days or even hours later. This persistent struggle against unt

In Christ, we have strength to deal with the moments and events in life that are hopeless. At the end of his 2 nd missionary journey Paul wrote his first letter to the church in Corinth, he writes these words (13:13): “But now faith, hope, love, abide in these three; but the greatest of these is love.” What he is saying here is that faith is necessary; hope is necessary. He then singles out love and says that love is the greatest of all. Now, most of us, I think, would agree

Jesus came into this world to be an example. He came here to show us the Father. He came here to take our sins upon Himself on the cross. He came to destroy the works of the devil. While He went about His ministry doing these things, He gathered up followers along the way. These followers He called “disciples,” READ: Luke 14:25-33 Now large crowds were going along with Him; and He turned and said to them, “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and