Keystone Nazarene Church

1 Samuel 18 – 2 Samuel 11 ; Psalms 51, 57 In the character of David we get a large view of a person’s life with all of its strengths and weaknesses, and we find that David is very human just like you and I.  However, David was known as a man after God’s own […]

1 Samuel 8 Life is full of choices and they aren’t always easy ones.  Yet these choices are based fundamentally on our trust either in God and his promises or on ourselves.  Through the scripture of Israel asking for a king, we look at the choices we make, the impact of these choices, and God’s […]

Ruth The book of Ruth is an fascinating and wonderful story, one of hurt and loss and hope and restoration.  Yet it is strange that God does not speak according to the text directly act in this whole story.  Many times our lives may seem the same way.  We love God we want to serve […]

Judges God has heard the cry of the Hebrews in Egypt and saved them with a powerful hand.  He gave them the way he created them to live, he put up with their distrust and whining, and when they finally learned to take him at his word he went before them and gave them the […]

Keystone Nazarene Church took a group of four to the tsunami-stricken areas of Sendai and the Tohoku region.  Here are the stories of the participants about their experience and how God changed them during these days.

Joshua   We look today at what it means to be ‘home’ with God through Israel’s taking of the promised land.

Deuteronomy 1-2 After miraculously being delivered from Egypt, God took this people, his new nation into the wilderness to teach and form them.  Their eyes were on God’s promised goal, the promised land, but first God had to change who they were.  We look also at what it means to wait, to be disciplined, and […]

Acts 27:13-44 The theme of our Vacation Bible School this past week has been, Mission to M.A.R.S (Meet a Risen Savior).  In it we have looked at the stories of the transformation of Paul and God’s using him to travel boldly to the farthest parts of the Roman Empire (for us it has been the […]

Exodus 20:1-17 God created humans, and after they broke the relationship through Adam and Eve, He has continued to pursue them to restore this relationship.  In Moses he showed that he is greater than the powers which oppose him, and that his character can be trusted.  Now he takes them into the wilderness to show […]

Exodus 1-12 For the Hebrews life happens again, they find themselves enslaved, trapped, and hurting.  God hears and acts, but he does not act alone.  He chooses one who will trust him, and through him God breaks the backs of the spiritual, political, and economic powers that stand against him.  And God does this for […]

Genesis 37-46 God is the driving force in his story, though many times he works quietly in the background.  In the story of Joseph we see how dysfunction and life happen, yet how God uses even these for good in the life of his followers and through them for the whole world.

Genesis 12:1-13:3 After Noah God began a new direction in trying to redeem his prized creation.  He called one man, and promised from this man he would create a people, and from this people he would bless and work throughout all the people of the earth.  God called Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  They had to […]

Genesis 8:20-22, 9:1-17 We’ve heard and seen that God is a God of creativity, relationship, commitment, and justice and that humans are doubting and lost.  This spiral from the garden of Eden goes until God decides to start over with a great flood.  Yet God remembers the righteous, and amazingly God makes a promise to […]

Genesis 3 God created humans in his image, an image of relationship, and true relationships requires choice.  But humans chose to seek good and evil for themselves and to distrust the God who gave them everything.  Here lies the break, the entrance of sin and brokenness into our world. Yet this choice is one that […]

Genesis 1-2 Who is God?  Why are we here? Where is our world going? The Story of God found in the Bible is the story of God’s relationship with his creation. In the beginning we read that God created the heavens and the earth, but in this story we find out a great deal about […]

2 Corinthians 6:16-18 We all have been shaped by our parents, for good or bad.  On this Father’s Day we look to scripture to see how its commands and illustrations about how God intended us to live, play into what it means to be a son or daughter, mother or father.  And we remember again […]

Acts 1:3-7, 12-14; 2:1-12, 37-47   What does it mean, ultimately, to live in the life Jesus gives?  It includes spiritual disciplines which help re-train us to live according to God’s way of thinking, and the way he created us to live.  But ultimately it means that God changes our heart, our will, our motivation.  […]

2 Corinthians 5:14, Acts 1:8 Living the life that Jesus gives, a life marked by the power of his resurrection means that we change.  We begin to look more like Jesus.  One of the essential ways that we change is that we begin to see other people like he does, that we begin to love […]

Proverbs 1:7   Last night we had a category 2 typhoon tear across Okinawa with gusts over 110 miles per hour.  As I stood on my balcony in the sheer force of the storm I felt both awe and fear.  Today we look at what the bible teaches of the fear of God and how […]

2 Corinthians 5:17 We want to be like Christ, to live in the power that guided his life, and the power which raised him from the dead.  This is the power of God that conquers sin even here and now!  But how to we practically remain connected to this power?  And what happens when we […]