The Gift You Can't Earn

by Pastor Peter Miguelez

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-not by works, so that no one can boast.” 

Ephesians 2:8-9

    Have you ever received a gift that felt too generous? Maybe someone paid for your groceries, or gave you something meaningful without expecting anything in return. In those moments, our natural response is often to say, "You didn’t have to do that!" We want to earn what we receive.

Everything New, Again!

by Pastor Peter Miguelez

“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, the new creation is made: the old is gone, the new is here!” 

2 Corinthians 5:17

     Among the things that impress me about God, one of them is His ability to create. When we talk about creation, our minds take us straight to Genesis 1, and we often think about what God has created. But God "IS" (in capital letters) Creator and not “was” Creator. This difference in verb tenses shows that God’s creative ability to cr

The Relational God

by Pastor Peter Miguelez

"Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as He was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden"

Genesis 3:8

    God created human beings to have a loving relationship with them. The creation of the Sabbath is the first great example of that. The recently created couple wasn’t tired yet, but Sabbath was the first entire day of their lives. What a great privilege! The

The Incarnated God

by Pastor Peter Miguelez

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth” 

John 1:14    

    When the first couple sinned in paradise, they not only lost access to the garden and the tree of life, but they also raised a barrier between humanity and God that would be impossible to human beings to cross by themselves. 

    The truth is that our sins and even our own