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About Us
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In His
Service
My name is Dave Kenyon. My work experience has encompassed
many fields including personnel management, education and
business owner / manager. My desire is to spread the good
news by way of spiritual guidance and counseling via the
internet. I am an evangelical Christian and
non-denominational. My goal is to help people find biblical
based answers to their fundamental questions as to the
meaning and purpose of life and after death - what then?
It is my earnest
desire that this ministry will bring about life changing
decisions - life and death decisions - decision of knowing
and accepting Jesus Christ personally and thereby having the
assurance of where you will spend eternity.
"You shall know
the truth and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32
"I am the way,
the truth and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by
Me." John 14:6
Dave Kenyon |
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Statement of
Faith
The Bible
We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old
and New Testaments to be the verbally and plenarily inspired Word
of God (Matthew 5:18; 2 Timothy 3:16-17). We hold the Bible to be
inerrant in the original writings, infallible, God-breathed, and
the complete and final authority for faith and practice (2 Timothy
3:16-17). The Holy Spirit was the divine author of Scripture (2
Peter 1:21). While still using the individual personalities of the
human authors, the Spirit superintended them to insure that they
wrote precisely what He wanted written, without error or omission.
The Nature of God
We believe in one Triune God, who is
Creator of all (Deuteronomy 6:4; Colossians 1:16), eternally
existing in three distinct Persons – Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit (2 Corinthians 13:14), yet one in being, essence, power and
glory, having the same attributes and perfections (John 10:30).
God is our creator (Genesis 1:1), is eternal (Psalm 90:2),
infinite (1 Timothy 1:17), sovereign (Psalm 93:1) and unsearchable
(Romans 11:33-34). God is omniscient (Psalm 139:1-6), omnipresent
(Psalm 139:7-13), omnipotent (Revelation 19:6), and unchanging
(Malachi 3:6). God is holy (Isaiah 6:3), just (Deuteronomy 32:4),
and righteous (Exodus 9:27). God is love (1 John 4:8), gracious
(Ephesians 2:8), merciful (1 Peter 1:3), and good (Romans 8:28).
God The Son, Jesus Christ
We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus
Christ. He is fully God, the expressed image of the Father, who,
without ceasing to be God, became man in order that He might
reveal God and redeem sinful man (Matthew 1:21; John 1:18;
Colossians 1:15).
We believe that God the Son became incarnate in the person of
Jesus Christ; that He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and was
born of the virgin Mary; that He is truly God and truly man; that
He lived a perfect, sinless life; that all His teachings are true
(Isaiah 14; Matthew 1:23). We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ
died on the cross for all mankind (1 John 2:2) as a
representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice (Isaiah
53:5-6). We hold that His death is efficacious for all who believe
(John 1:12; Acts 16:31); that our justification is grounded in the
shedding of His blood (Romans 5:9; Ephesians 1:17); and that it is
attested by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead
(Matthew 28:6; 1 Peter 1:3).
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven in His
glorified body (Acts 1:9-10) and is now seated at the right hand
of God as our High Priest and Advocate (Romans 8:34; Hebrews
7:25).
God The Holy Spirit
We believe in the deity and personality
of the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:3-4). We believe that the Holy Spirit
convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John
16:8-11). He regenerates sinners (Titus 3:5) and indwells
believers (Romans 8:9). He is the agent by whom Christ baptizes
all believers into His body (1 Corinthians 12:12-14). He is the
seal by whom the Father seals believers unto the day of redemption
(Ephesians 1:13-14). He is the Divine Teacher who illumines
believers’ hearts and minds as they study the Word of God (1
Corinthians 2:9-12.)
We believe that the Holy Spirit is ultimately sovereign in the
distribution of spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 12:11). We believe
that speaking in tongues and the working of sign miracles
gradually ceased as the New Testament Scriptures were completed,
their authority upheld, and the early church firmly established (1
Corinthians 12:4-11; 2 Corinthians 12:12; Ephesians 2:20; 4:7-12).
Angels and Demons
We believe in the reality and personality
of angels. We believe that God created an innumerable company of
these sinless, spiritual beings who were to be His servants and
messengers (Nehemiah 9:6; Psalm 148:2; Hebrews 1:14).
We believe in the existence and personality of Satan and demons.
Satan is a fallen angel who led a great company of angels into
rebellion against God (Isaiah 14:12-17; Ezekiel 28:12-15). He is
the great enemy of God and man, and the demons are his agents in
his unholy purposes. He and his demons shall be eternally punished
in the lake of fire (Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:10).
Man
We believe that man came into being by
direct creation of God and that man is made in the image and
likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-27). We believe that the human race
sinned in Adam (Romans 5:12), that sin is universal in man (Romans
3:23), and that it is exceedingly offensive to God.
We believe that all mankind, because of Adam's fall, has inherited
a sinful nature. Humanity is utterly unable to remedy its lost
estate (Eph 2:1-5,12). We believe that all men are guilty and in a
lost condition apart from Christ (Romans 2:1).
Salvation
We believe that salvation is a gift of
God’s grace through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ
on the cross (Ephesians 2:8-9). Christ shed His blood to
accomplish justification through faith, propitiation to God,
redemption from sin, and reconciliation of man. Christ died for us
(Romans 5:8-9) and bore our sins in His own body (1 Peter 2:24).
We believe that all those who have truly placed their faith in
Christ are eternally secure in their salvation, kept by God’s
power, secure and sealed in Christ forever (John 6:37-40;
10:27-30; Romans 8:1, 38-39; Ephesians 1:13-14; 1 Peter 1:5; Jude
24).
The Church
We believe that the Church, which is the
Body and Bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all
born-again believers of the present age (1 Corinthians 12:12-14; 2
Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 1:22-23; 5:25-27). We believe in the
ordinances of believer’s water baptism by immersion as a
testimony and the Lord’s Supper as a remembrance of Christ’s
death and shed blood (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 2:41-42; 18:8; 1
Corinthians 11:23-26). We believe in the priesthood of all
believers (1 Corinthians 1:1; Revelation 1:6). We believe that the
saved should live in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon
their Lord and Savior, and that separation from sinful pleasures,
practices, and associations is commanded by God (Romans 12:1-2; 2
Corinthians 6:14-7:1; 2 Timothy 3:1-5; 1 John 2:15-17). We believe
in the Great Commission as the primary mission of the Church. It
is the obligation of believers to witness, by word and life, to
the truths of God’s Word. The gospel of the grace of God is to
be preached to all the world (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8; 2
Corinthians 5:19-20). New believers are to be taught to obey the
Lord and to testify concerning their faith in Christ as Savior and
to honor Him by holy living.
Things to Come
We believe in the blessed hope (Titus
2:13), the personal, imminent, pretribulational, and premillennial
coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to rapture His saints (1
Thessalonians 4:13-18). We believe in the subsequent, visible
return of Christ to the earth with His saints to establish His
promised millennial kingdom (Zechariah 14:4-11; 1 Thessalonians
1:10; Revelation 3:10; 19:11-16; 20:1-6). We believe in the
physical resurrection of all men – the saints to everlasting joy
and bliss, and the wicked to conscious and eternal torment
(Matthew 25:46; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5-6, 12-13). We
believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from
the body and present with the Lord, where they await the first
resurrection when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be
glorified forever with the Lord (Luke 23:43; 2 Corinthians 5:8;
Philippians 1:23; 3:21; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; Revelation
20:4-6). We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain, after
death, in conscious misery until the second resurrection when,
with soul and body reunited, they shall appear at the Great White
Throne judgment and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be
annihilated, but to suffer everlasting conscious punishment
(Matthew 25:41-46; Mark 9:43-48; Luke 16:19-26; 2 Thessalonians
1:7-9; Revelation 20:11-15).
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