Bridging The Gap

Maybe you’ve noticed that not all Christians are easy to be around. While we may not like everyone we encounter, we are commanded to love them anyway.  That’s not always easy is it?  Today’s Bridging the Gap broadcast will help us with that.  We’re about to see our need to love one another, even when it’s a challenge.  Pastor Lloyd Pulley brings First Peter one before us today, and encourages us to have a sincere love for the brethren.  

Today we’ll be continuing pastor Lloyd’s series in the wonderful book of First Peter.  In the middle of chapter one, the apostle Peter says that in light of our salvation, we’re to live in hope, holiness and fear.  That’s the appropriate response to our salvation in Christ, but what does that look like? Holiness is a word that gets tossed around a lot in Christian circles, but what does it really mean to be “Holy”?

Today on Bridging the Gap, we’ll take you to First Peter one, and give you good reasons to remain faithful to God no matter what comes your way.  Pastor Lloyd Pulley has an eye on verses thirteen through twenty one today, with a message titled “The Call and Encouragement to Holiness”.

Trials and their benefit - they’re not always easy to see, but they’re there! Today on Bridging the Gap, we’ll continue our verse by verse study through First Peter. In chapter one, verses six through twelve, Peter seeks to explain why trials will come the way of all Christians. Join us in First Peter, chapter one.

We’ve all experienced heartbreaks and trials. It’s part of life. But often times we find ourselves thinking, “Why would God allow this to happen to me?”   It’s during those times we can open up First Peter, which contains just what we need to hear when trials hit.  God wants you to know those fiery trials serve a purpose.  Today on Bridging the Gap, that comes to our attention in a powerful way, as pastor Lloyd Pulley brings us a message titled “Our Inheritance”, from First Peter, chapter one.

You know, it’s easy to lose perspective when a great trial hits, so today on Bridging the Gap, we’ll show you how to maintain a Godly outlook on life.  The apostle Peter is about to point the way to a hopeful endurance.

We’re looking at the first verses of First Peter chapter one today. One thing that should always give us hope is our salvation through Christ. Here’s pastor Lloyd with a message titled, “A Living Hope”.

Today on Bridging the Gap, pastor Lloyd Pulley will continue a verse by verse tour of the book of First Peter. Peter was greatly influenced by his experiences with the Apostle Paul, and we’ll see that influence today in the first verses of First Peter chapter one. The gospel message is a lot simpler than many people make it out to be. God intended it to be readily available to anyone who would simply repent of their sins, and receive His free gift on salvation. We’ll concentrate our thoughts on salvation in our first message from First Peter.

When times are tough, the book of First Peter is a good place to turn.  And that’s where we’re headed today and in the coming weeks on Bridging the Gap. Pastor Lloyd Pulley is going to show us how to live the Christian life in the context of suffering.  Here he is to introduce the book to us and give us the proper response to persecution.

Today, too many people use prayer as a “last resort” in emergencies, or as a sort of “cosmic mail order catalog” to ask for the things they want. As we move through this series, pastor Lloyd  will explain exactly what prayer is supposed to be and what it’s not supposed to be. He’ll also show us how to make our prayer life more effective

We’re midway through a mini-series on prayer, and today pastor Lloyd will again urge us to be persistent in our prayer life. God has promised us some very wonderful things when we pray, but those wonderful things are contingent upon us approaching Him with the right attitude.

Today on Bridging the Gap, we’ll examine the best way to communicate..... with God the Father, through our representative, Jesus Christ. Pastor Lloyd Pulley is currently sharing a series on the subject of prayer, and today he will remind us of something that should make all of us want to stop what we are doing and praise God - no problem is too small for God to care about, and no problem is too large for God to do something about! 

Today, we’ll begin a new series on prayer. It’s a funny thing about prayer. It’s so very commonplace among Christians, yet our prayers are so often ineffectual. Why is that? Maybe we just don’t know how to pray right - or more accurately how to pray the way the Lord would want us to. That’s what this series is all about - learning to be more effective in our prayer life.

If you’ve been with us recently, you know that our current topic of discussion is the Holy Spirit, and spiritual gifts. Today, we’re going to cover what pastor Lloyd calls the “Ministry Gifts”. Now, the key thing to keep in mind as we look at this particular gift is, it should never be used or attempted to be used as a means of glorifying ourselves. Spiritual gifts are for the Lord’s glory - EXCLUSIVELY!!!

Every one of us has a spiritual gift - maybe even more than one. The task before us is to discover what that gift is. Where do the answers lie? They lie in the pages of the Bible, and that’s where pastor Lloyd will take us today as we bring you another message from his series on the Holy Spirit, and  spiritual gifts.

Today we’ll continue a series centered around the gifts of the Spirit. This area of study can be controversial. There are those who say you aren’t saved unless you’ve been “baptized in the Holy Spirit”. There are those who say the gifts of the Spirit are no longer active. Who’s right? Pastor Lloyd will answer many of these questions coming up, so turn to First Corinthians chapter twelve and join us.

Today we’ll begin a look at the gifts of the Spirit. How many gifts of the Spirit are there? Opinions are varied, as you might guess. There are some that are well known, such as tongues, prophecy, and the like. But there are many others that you might not have considered, and that you might actually possess! 

Today on Bridging the Gap, pastor Lloyd Pulley continues his new series on the Holy Spirit with a look at one of the most difficult things about the Holy Spirit for us to understand the fact that The Holy Spirit is a person. How can a Spirit be a person? On the surface, it doesn’t make any sense, but stay with us, because pastor Lloyd will make it all clear and understandable. 

If you are a Christian, you have a person in your life called The Holy Spirit. That’s right – He is a person. A lot of people have a difficult time understanding that. Today’s message is designed to answer the questions we have all asked about the person of the Holy Spirit.

The title of today’s message is “Led By The Spirit”. Now, those four words perfectly capture what our goal should be as Christians - to be led by the Holy Spirit, but what does that entail? Sounds like a rather lofty goal, doesn’t it?.  We’ll begin our journey today in Romans eight.