What We Believe

Psalm 119:89 — "Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven."

1 Thessalonians 2:13 — "For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe."

Romans 8:1-15 — A passage affirming the distinct roles of the Father, Son, and Spirit in our salvation and daily walk — from condemnation removed through Christ, to life given by the Spirit, to adoption as sons who cry "Abba! Father!"

Isaiah 7:14 — "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel."

Romans 10:9-10 — "If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation."

Romans 10:13 — "For whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."

Matthew 16:26 — "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?"

John 14:16-17 — "I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, so that He may be with you forever; the Helper is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him."

Proverbs 12:17-19 — "One who declares truth tells what is right... Truthful lips will endure forever, but a lying tongue is only for a moment."

John 3:21 — "But the one who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed as having been performed in God."

John 8:32 — "And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

1 Corinthians 13:6 — "It does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth."

Ephesians 6:14 — "Stand firm therefore, having belted your waist with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness."

Ephesians 6:14-17 — "Stand firm therefore, having belted your waist with truth... taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."

1 Corinthians 16:13 — "Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong."

Matthew 7:24-26 — "Everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts on them, will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock."

Romans 1:25 — "For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator."

Psalm 50:10 — "For every animal of the forest is Mine, the cattle on a thousand hills."

Haggai 2:8 — "'The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,' declares the Lord of armies."

Luke 16:10-12 — "The one who is faithful in a very little thing is also faithful in much; and the one who is unrighteous in a very little thing is also unrighteous in much. Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true wealth to you?"

1 Peter 4:10 — "As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the multifaceted grace of God."

Colossians 3:23 — "Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord and not for people."

Genesis 1:28 — "God blessed them; and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.'"

James 1:22-25 — "But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was."

1 Timothy 3:1-3 — "An overseer, then, must be above reproach... temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money."

2 Corinthians 6:15-18 — "Or what harmony does Christ have with Belial, or what does a believer share with an unbeliever?... 'Come out from their midst and be separate,' says the Lord. 'And do not touch what is unclean; And I will welcome you.'"

Proverbs 13:11 — "Wealth obtained from nothing dwindles, but one who gathers by labor increases it."

2 Corinthians 5:10 — "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad."

Philippians 2:5 — "Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus."

1 Timothy 3:1-3 — "An overseer, then, must be above reproach... temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money."

Leviticus 27:30 — "Thus all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's; it is holy to the Lord."

Malachi 3:8-9 — "Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, 'How have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!"

Matthew 6:19-21 — "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven... for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

Titus 3:8 — "This is a trustworthy statement; and concerning these things I want you to speak confidently, so that those who have believed God will be careful to engage in good deeds. These things are good and profitable for men."

James 4:17 — "Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin."