Plymouth Haven Baptist Church

Core Truth: Believing that every true believer wants to please God and receive His unqualified approval when we finally stand before Him, it is most encouraging to know that our ultimate success in that regard does not depend upon our faithfulness but upon His – and that His faithfulness cannot ever change! Such confidence enables us to live truly free in Christ, knowing that while we are not yet perfect, we one day shall be – and that even then that most generous gift given to each of us will not be on our deserving it but on His unchanging faithfulness.

Core Truth: Despite the “many infallible proofs” given to us of the literal bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, from the earliest days following that glorious event down to modern times, there have been relentless attempts to explain and discount that unprecedented reality in hopes of dismantling the whole edifice or structure of the Christian faith and the only hope of our eternal life and salvation.

Core Truth: “The blood stands out in solitary majesty, the only rock of our salvation. This blood is not simply the only thing that can save, but must save alone. Put anything with the blood of Christ, and you are lost; trust to anything else with this and you perish. Morality will keep you out of jail, but only the blood of Jesus will keep you out of hell. Beloved, it is a thought which ought to make our hearts leap within us, that through Jesus’s blood there is not a spot left upon any believer, not a wrinkle nor any such thing.” Charles Spurgeon

Core Truth: Trusting God is always easy when things are going well in our lives; but the true measure of our faith and confidence that our heavenly father really does know all about us and is closely watching over us comes when an unexpected test, trial, or a temptation appears – suddenly throwing us off our game, as the saying goes. We find ourselves being tempted to doubt in the darkness what we were so sure about in the light. It is especially at those times that He wants to bring us to a new level of faith and trust in Him – ‘The God Who does ALL things well!’ (Mark 7:37)

Core Truth: Someone has wisely said that “It seems like too many people and ministries go right back to business as usual after Easter is over. They celebrated the empty tomb, but they celebrated the empty tomb from their personal vantage point. Most people give very little thought to what the empty tomb requires of us once we accept Him as Lord and Savior, but in a world increasingly filled with hopelessness and despair our witness as to what Christ’s resurrection really means is needed now more than ever.”

Core Truth: “If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that He said; if He didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what He said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like His teaching but whether or not He rose from the dead.” Dr. Tim Keller.

Core Truth: The things that are on our personal lists of priorities are probably not in the same order as God’s list for us. And while upon receiving Christ we are indeed given a new mind, even the very mind of Christ, it is only by the constant process of ‘renewing our minds’ that our priorities begin to come into line with what God really has planned for us, and the more we do that the more we will be amazed at the power of a prioritized life!

Core Truth: If we could ever begin to really understand God’s eternal purposes for every one of us who has been born again by the Holy Spirit and been made part of His Bride, the Church, it would radically affect every aspect of how we are living our lives right now… from how we spend our time, our money, and our energy, to how we use our gifts and talents in our day-to-day living here on earth as we come to understand ever more fully the apostle Paul’s declaration in Romans 8:18, ‘whatever the sufferings of this present life may be, they are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and for us and conferred on us!’

Core Truth: None of us likes to feel inadequate – whether it’s on our job, in our role as parents, or most any other situation we may have to deal with from day to day. However, the Bible shows us quite clearly that not only did some of God’s greatest servants experience great feelings of inadequacy, but they discovered that those very limitations were what qualified them to be used of God to do great and mighty things for Him and His kingdom here on earth.

Core Truth: The certainty of Christ’s resurrection from the dead is THE pivotal point in human history and implication of its not occurring are profound beyond all we can imagine.

Core Truth: God does not give us a thing called wisdom, a thing called righteousness, or a thing called sanctification. He gives us a PERSON called Jesus, Who is all of these in Himself. Our faith is not in a creed but in Christ. Therefore, anyone who is truly IN Christ actually lacks nothing, whether they have ever come to understand and enter into that reality or not.

Core Truth: God does not give us a thing called wisdom, a thing called righteousness, or a thing called sanctification. He gives us a PERSON called Jesus, Who is all of these in Himself. Our faith is not in a creed but in Christ. Therefore, anyone who is truly IN Christ actually lacks nothing, whether they have ever come to understand and enter into that reality or not.

Core Truth: God does not give us a thing called wisdom, a thing called righteousness, or a thing called sanctification. He gives us a PERSON called Jesus, Who is all of these in Himself. Our faith is not in a creed but in Christ. Therefore, anyone who is truly IN Christ actually lacks nothing, whether they have ever come to understand and enter into that reality or not.

Core Truth: God does not give us a thing called wisdom, a thing called righteousness, or a thing called sanctification. He gives us a PERSON called Jesus, Who is all of these in Himself. Our faith is not in a creed but in Christ. Therefore, anyone who is truly IN Christ actually lacks nothing, whether they have ever come to understand and enter into that reality or not.

Core Truth: The resurrection of Jesus Christ has profound implications here and now, also for the eternity that lies ahead – a future perhaps much nearer than we can imagine. Therefore, as true followers of Christ we are called to live our lives accordingly.

Core Truth: Though the witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward. (C.S. Lewis – The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe)

Core Truth: No warrior enters a battle, a runner a race, or a boxer the ring without intending to win and being willing to prepare oneself accordingly; but being a slave may be the most fitting analogy of what it means to be a true Christian.

Core Truth: Without Christ, there is no hope. But with Him, there is hope and enough to spare; hope enough to share with all those who otherwise find themselves without hope, without God, and without Christ in the world.

Core Truth: “There is one event in history that is unparalleled in its effect upon the world – the resurrection of Christ. Nothing like this is had ever happened before, and nothing since has equaled it. When Jesus rose from the grave, the impact was felt immediately and has continued to reverberate throughout the world. This event has shaken not only religions, cultures, and governments; but individuals, as one by one, believers are transformed through Christ’s resurrection power.” (Dr. Charles Stanley)

Core Truth: Christian stewardship does not begin with one’s money, nor is that even its primary focus. Rather, biblical stewardship is so radically all-inclusive that it encompasses everything about us as human beings – even down to the very breath God gives us to breathe.

Core Truth: Christ has been raised from the dead. We have endless hope!

Core Truth: The Christian life is a very real race for a very real prize - a prize that is well-worth doing whatever it takes to finish and finish well!

Core Truth: The importance of every believer's participation in the table of Communion should be most apparent when we realize that it is the single outward memorial that He has commanded us to observe.

Core Truth: Those who have died in Christ will be raised from death and united with their new bodies, while those who are still alive will also be instantly "changed" and give their new bodies as together we are caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

Core Truth: The fact that I am a follower of Jesus Christ automatically makes me a part of His church, and requires that I carry out my part in building His church with great caution and discretion.

Core Truth: Because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the life I am now living on this earth has a lasting purpose here and eternal consequence beyond the grave.

Core Truth: "If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that He said; if He didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what He said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like His teaching but whether or not He rose from the dead.” Timothy Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Core Truth: Whether we realize it or not we are all building a life, not merely making a living; may we build wisely and with Eternity ever in view.