A Simple Choice

Imagine you are riding a bike through the countryside. You know you’ll soon need to cross a river and notice a fork in the road that leads to two different bridges. You take the turn to the left because that leads to the closest bridge. When you get to the...

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“So that by the grace of God …”

It was grace that brought me to Christ when I became a Christian. Grace was indeed a new concept for me. As a child, I had gone to Sunday School and heard about Christ dying on the cross for our sins. But I misunderstood a key element of the Gospel:...

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Christ My Source and Goal

When I first came to Valley Bible Church, I was introduced to quite a few songs I had never heard or sung before. One of those songs was a contemporary version of May the Mind of Christ My Savior. The original hymn, written only six years after the horrors of...

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