Acts chapter eight opens with an ominous cloud. Stephen has been stoned and a great persecution has arisen against the Jerusalem church. Saul of Tarsus is on the rampage, ravaging the church, entering house after house; and dragging…
Sermon By Terry Siverd Cortland Church of Christ / August 25, 2019 Yesterday Nic Wildman led us in our first session of a one-hour weekly exercise gathering (every Saturday @8AM). We had over a dozen and a variety…
Jesus was crucified during the Jewish feast of Passover (He was offered up by God as the perfect Lamb/1Pet.1:18-29). Fifty days later, many of those who had cried out for Jesus to be crucified (Mt.27:11-26) returned to Jerusalem…
Sermon By Terry Siverd Cortland Church of Christ / August 25, 2019 The second chapter of the book of Acts is both exciting and eye-opening for a number of reasons. It shows the beginning of the church in…
One popular area church has a brief two-minute video on their website that highlights “baptism” (www.gracelives.org). The video accurately depicts baptism as an immersion in water and is graphically quite attractive, but the narrator makes this observation midway…
Sermon By Terry Siverd Cortland Church of Christ / August 18, 2019 I want to express my thanks to Brian Alfred and Vic Rossi for teaching & preaching last Sunday in my absence. Next Sunday at from 6-7pm…
It happened several years ago. The phone rang. The voice on the line was that of a man who had been a member of this church in times past. He said, “I want to talk to you about…
When we talk about having a relationship with God, what it means to have a close relationship with God. What it means to build this close relationship, not just knowing things about God, but actually getting to KNOW…
Sermon By Terry Siverd Cortland Church of Christ / August 04, 2019 To say that we are saved by GRACE is to speak truth. The apostle Paul wrote often about grace. Rom.3:23-24 states, for all have sinned and…
A host of prophetic utterances scattered all throughout the Old Testament are replete with a call for REPENTANCE. God spoke through the prophet Ezekiel saying: Therefore I will judge you…each according to his conduct. Repent and turn away…