Tribulation works patience. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss the trying of the believer’s faith, which brings about maturity in our Christian walk. Reading James 1:3, the panel reminds us that everything we travel through, as believers is a trying of our ...

We must learn dependency on God. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss resting in the true peace of God. Brother Larson shares his personal testimony how God showed him how to rest at the feet of Jesus, and stop trying to help God out. We must come to the pla...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss how all believers are justified by faith alone; any other way, only brings glory to self and not God. True righteousness is imputed to us by the righteous life of Christ. Faith in the finished work of Christ, is the only wa...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read Romans 5:1-2 discussing that preaching any aspect of Calvary is the gospel, but we must grow in our understanding of what Christ provided in totality of our salvation. Faith in Christ also brings His grace to how to live this ...

Jesus, by death on the Cross, paid the penalty for all sin. He, as well, on the Cross, broke the power of sin. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss the message of the Cross for those who are new to the message, or still have many questions about it. The Cros...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel welcome special guest, Pastor Ross Kibodeaux. Brother Kibodeaux was a former student of Jimmy Swaggart Bible College and shares his testimony of how God is using him as a professor at Summit International School of Ministry in Penn...

Stagger not at the promises of God. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read in the fourth Chapter of Romans, discussing imputed righteousness. Justification can only come when we place our faith in God’s redemption plan, which is Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Ab...

What does it mean to be weak in the faith? Today, on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read in the Book of Romans, discussing obedience to the faith. Reading Romans 4:19-22, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss how the believer must keep their faith ever anchored in the f...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read Romans 4:19 discussing the promise of God made to Abraham. Abraham, who against hope, believed in hope to become the father of many nations. God is asking all to believe in His promise, as faith in the finished work of Chris...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss the hope that is found when we put our faith in the finished work of Christ. The panel discusses the false doctrine that WRONGLY teaches that Jesus had to be born again. This is blasphemy. Christ was a perfect sacrifice; ...

We must ever keep our faith anchored in the finished work of Christ on Calvary’s Cross. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read Galatians 2:20-21 discussing how the believer can frustrate the grace of God. We must not put our faith in anything of our own doing, but...

Law keeping works wrath instead of grace. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read Romans 4:17 discussing justification by faith. We are responsible for the gospel, as God has many ways He has revealed Himself to mankind. The Apostle Paul teaches how grace and law ...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read Romans 4:13-16 discussing justification by faith. The life of Abraham is our example of acquiring righteousness by faith and not by works. Salvation cannot exist in both works and faith; either one cancels out the other, thus,...

Dependence on self will turn us away from the finished work of Christ, taking us from a government of grace to a government of law. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss how Satan tries to get believers to take our eyes off of Christ in the midst of our storms....

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read Romans 4:13-14 discussing justification within the New Covenant and the Old. Reading Galatians 3:8, the panel explains how this justification is not just to the Jew, but the heir of the world is Christ and the New Covenant, wh...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss how all who believe on the finished work of Christ are justified. Looking at the Law of Moses, and Israel’s effort to keep the many other fence laws, we learn that this deception and spirit of religion can never lead to jus...

His grace is sufficient for all. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read Isaiah 40:28-30 discussing the problems the believer will likely face in this life. There is good news in our trials; therefore, be encouraged, for nothing is too big for our God. By His grac...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel welcome back Pastor Bob Cornell from Murfreesboro Tennessee. Jesus said, “He cannot come, until I go away”, referring to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The panel discusses the way the Holy Spirit works in the life of a believ...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel welcome guest Pastor Bob Cornell from Murfreesboro Tennessee. The panel discusses justification by faith, as God has designed for the believer’s life and living. Brother Bob shares his testimony of how he learned to carry this tr...

Can the believer lose his or her justification? Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel look at the life of David, a perfect example of why a believer can expect to stumble. By faith, our righteousness in imputed, and cannot be achieved by works. Only repentance and f...

You can’t understand the New Covenant without a proper understanding of the Old Covenant. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss faith in the finished work of Christ looking at the lives of Abraham and David. The Old Testament is not obsolete with the coming of...

God’s grace never changes. Our understanding of His grace is what changes. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss the trials a believer will go through. God has a purpose for the sufferings we endure. He has strength for the journey for whatever we are going ...

Where’s boasting? It is excluded through faith. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read Romans 4:1-3 discussing man’s inability to earn salvation. The law was not made void through the finished work of Christ; God forbid, the law is established by faith. The Apo...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read Romans 4:1-2 discussing falling short of the glory of God. As believers, we can expect that we will fail, but we don’t have to get saved again. We must only repent. Looking at the great model of Abraham, the panel explains f...