Our Sunday Messages

The Great Rescue(Galatians 1:4; Romans 5:6) An Amazing Rescue Story – Copiapó, Chile August 5, 2010 –– collapse of tunnel – trapped 33 miners The ladders were missing – trapped with no possible means of escape. After 17 days - received a signal that a rescue plan was in the works It would take 4-5 months to perform the rescue. Such a message in the darkness must have given the 33 miners hope. Miners, asked for Bibles, crucifixes, rosaries, statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints to be sent to them. Plan to rescue developed – 1 at a time through a special capsule – the only way out. 69 days later all 33 men were brought up and saved from a sure death. Are We Like These Miners? Lost and trapped in darkness Romans 3:23 – all have sinned and fall short Not able to save ourselves Eph 2:8-9 NKJV For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, (9) not of works, lest anyone should boast. Rom 5:6 NLT When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at j