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These are scripture passages referenced on the "About Our Church" web page. Text is from the New International Version of the Holy Bible. 1.  About God Genesis 1:1  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:26  Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” Genesis 1:27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Psalm 90:2  Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. Matthew 28:18  Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 1 Peter 1:2  who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by his blood: 2 Corinthians 13:14  May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 2.  About Jesus Christ Matthew 1:22  All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: Isaiah 9:6  For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. John 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:2  He was with God in the beginning. John 1:3  Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. John 1:4  In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 1:5  The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. John 14:10  Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 14:11  Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. 14:12  I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 14:13  And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. 14:14  You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. 14:15  “If you love me, you will obey what I command. 14:16  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— 14:17  the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 14:18  I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 14:19  Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 14:20  On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 14:21  Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.” 14:22  Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?” 14:23  Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 14:24  He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. 14:25  “All this I have spoken while still with you. 14:26  But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 14:27  Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. 14:28  “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 14:29  I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. 14:30  I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me, Hebrews 4:14  Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. 4:15  For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. 1 Corinthians 15:3  For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance : that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 15:4  that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, Romans 1:3  regarding his Son, who as to his human nature was a descendant of David, 1:4  and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. Acts 1:9  After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. 1:10  They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 1:11  “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.” 1 Timothy 6:14  to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 6:15  which God will bring about in his own time—God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, Titus 2:13  while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, 3.  About the Holy Spirit 2 Corinthians 3:17  Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. John 16:7  But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 16:8  When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: 16:9  in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me; 16:10  in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 16:11  and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned. 16:12  “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 16:13  But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. John 14:16  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— 14:17  the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. Acts 1:8  But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” 1 Corinthians 2:12  We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 1 Corinthians 3:16  Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? Ephesians 1:13  And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 2 Corinthians 5:5  Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. Ephesians 5:18  Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. 4.  About the Bible 2 Timothy 3:16  All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 2 Peter 1:20  Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation. 2 Timothy 1:13  What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. Psalm 119:105  Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. Psalm 119:160  All your words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal. Proverbs 30:5  “Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Pr 30:6 Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar. 5.  About Human Beings Genesis 1:27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Psalm 8:3  When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 8:4  what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? 8:5  You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. 8:6  You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet: Isaiah 53:6  We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Romans 3:23  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Isaiah 59:1  Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. 59:2  But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. 6.  About Salvation Romans 6:23  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Ephesians 2:8  For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 2:9 not by works, so that no one can boast. John 14:6  Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 1:12  Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— Titus 3:5  he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, Galatians 3:26  You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, Romans 5:1  Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 7.  About Eternal Security John 10:29  My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 2 Timothy 1:12  That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day. Hebrews 7:25  Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them. Hebrews 10:10  And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Hebrews 10:14  because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. 1 Peter 1:3  Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 1:4  and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, 1:5  who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 8.  About Eternity John 3:16  “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 2:25  He did not need man’s testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man. John 5:11  But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ” 5:12  So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?” 5:13  The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. Romans 6:23  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Reveation 20:15  If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. John 12:44  Then Jesus cried out, “When a man believes in me, he does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. 12:45  When he looks at me, he sees the one who sent me. 12:46  I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness. Sharing Christ through worship, ministry, evangelism, fellowship, and discipleship