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From the Vantage of the End | Though evil and suffering remain until Christ returns, believers can endure with hope, trusting God’s perfect justice, finding comfort in His presence, and looking forward to resurrection and eternal glory. Speaker: Michael Crosswhite

Discipline & Discontentment | The whole church body is to guard the gospel by pursuing holiness and practicing discipline and exercise wisdom and discretion in dealing with frustrations and discontentment within the body. Church Membership | Tom Allen

Are We Pawns? | God’s sovereignty and human responsibility coexist mysteriously, calling Christians to trust his goodness, pray faithfully, fight evil, and endure suffering in faith rather than fall into fatalism or bitterness. Speaker: Michael Crosswhite

Congregationalism | A church that is elder led and congregational ruled recognizes that under Christ’s ultimate authority and the subordinate authority of pastors, the entire church body is responsible to guard the gospel through doctrine, discipline, and membership. Church Membership | Tom Allen

When God Refuses to Explain | Scripture gives good reasons for evil and that God may withhold the specific reasons for our suffering, calling us to trust His sovereign goodness rather than presume to explain His providence. Speaker: Michael Crosswhite

Elders and Deacons | The biblical offices of elder and deacon promote unity in the church as the Word is taught, the church is equipped for ministry, and its physical needs are met. Church Membership | Tom Allen

The Ordinances | Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are church acts whereby believers publicly identify with Christ and his church. Church Membership | Tom Allen

Why would God permit it? | God can be both good and sovereign while allowing evil for purposes of judgment, discipline, and mercy. Speaker: Michael Crosswhite

The Word & Worship | Scripture shapes the order and content of our corporate worship, in which expositional preaching, prayer, the ordinances, giving, and singing are done for the glory of God and building up of his church. Church Membership | Tom Allen

Sovereignty vs Complicity | God’s absolute sovereignty, human moral responsibility, and God’s goodness are fully compatible, and the cross proves that God sovereignly governs even evil without becoming guilty of it. Speaker: Michael Crosswhite

Do you still believe God is sovereign over every circumstance? Passages: Genesis 37-50, Mark 5, John 11 Speaker: Michael Crosswhite

Membership | Church membership is defined in the biblical framework of the family of God and the body of Christ. Church Membership | Tom Allen

Is Evil Ever 'of the Lord'? | God sovereignly governs both natural and human evil without excusing sinful agents, assuring us that suffering is never random or outside His purposeful rule. Speaker: Michael Crosswhite

Bad Responses to the Problem of Evil | Suffering exposes faulty assumptions about God, ourselves, and evil, while Scripture rejects explanations that diminish God’s power, nearness, sovereignty, or the seriousness of evil. Speaker: Michael Crosswhite

Unity and Diversity | The body of Christ displays God’s wisdom and glory, having been joined to him and one another by the Spirit’s work, in which people from diverse backgrounds are supernaturally united in the gospel. Church Membership | Tom Allen