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Genesis, is basically a group that want to learn more about the book of Genesis. In the Beginning God Created..... everything.
May 21

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Are you Saved (Born Again)? {your answer will not effect your membership}
Yes
Will you help lead people to Christ?
Yes
Will you share Jesus Christ with all that you meet?
Yes
Will you share this site with others?
Yes
How did you hear about Cross Faith?
From an email by either John or Tabitha.
Have you read the Cross Faith site Policy and Rules?
yes
My Age is
41 in the world and I am 29 in the Kingdom of Heaven.
My Birthday is?
November 27, 1967 in the world. February 24, 1980 in the Kingdom of Heaven.
About Me

My name is Matthew Hamrick and I prefer to be called Matt.

First and Foremost, I am a follower of Jesus.

Second, I am a happily married man with children.

Third, I am no longer a soldier but retired from military service with 22 years. Now I am a pastor serving Jesus Christ. I serve the Local Church and have a ministry online.

Finally, I am a follower of Jesus.

You can join In Christ Always Ministry at this link. In Christ Always

Also, you can join In Christ Always on Ning at this link. In Christ Always Social Network


My Testimony
I was roughly five years old when a man knocked on our door. Like every toddler I had to beat my mama to the door. The man invited my mother to Church and she declined. He invited me to Sunday school and my mother declined. I asked my mom what Sunday school was and she told me and asked me if I wanted to go. Naturally, it sounded cool to my five year old ears so I said yes.

For twelve years, I went to Victory Baptist Church for Sunday school and Church in Louisville, Ky. When I was 12 years old I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior. As a show of my public acceptance of Jesus, I was baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit at 13 years of age. I didn't know anything but Jesus for most of my life until I entered the military at age 17.

Like the prodigal son, I entered the world. It was here that I became an empty Christian that was not effective spiritually. I was a product of the world. For 20 years I embraced my sin nature and only called on my Savior when it suited me. In 2004, I returned to the Light like the prodigal son returning to his Father. My Heavenly Father came running to me with His arms open. I recommitted to Jesus Christ and have matured in Christ more in the last four years than the first 36 years of my life. I now find myself preaching in a local church and ministering to men. I also conduct the work of my Lord online. My testimony is I have always known Jesus, but now I follow him as an effective Christian.
What I Believe
I am are born from the Holy Spirit. I will bring the Gospel to a lost and broken world. I stand on the Holy Scriptures alone to minister to people who know and don't know Jesus Christ. I believe in the following.

There is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. God is all powerful and all knowing; and His perfect knowledge extends to all things, past, present, and future, including the future decisions of His free creatures. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.

God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. He is all powerful, all knowing, all loving, and all wise. God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ. He is fatherly in His attitude toward all men. Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself human nature with its demands and necessities and identifying Himself completely with mankind yet without sin. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross He made provision for the redemption of men from sin. He was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples as the person who was with them before His crucifixion. He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where He is the One Mediator, fully God, fully man, in whose Person is effected the reconciliation between God and man. He will return in power and glory to judge the world and to consummate His redemptive mission. He now dwells in all believers as the living and ever present Lord. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine. He inspired holy men of old to write the Scriptures. Through illumination He enables men to understand truth. He exalts Christ. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. He calls men to the Saviour, and effects regeneration. At the moment of regeneration He baptizes every believer into the Body of Christ. He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and bestows the spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church. He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption. His presence in the Christian is the guarantee that God will bring the believer into the fullness of the stature of Christ. He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.

The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.

Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. The gift of gender is thus part of the goodness of God's creation. In the beginning man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with freedom of choice. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Through the temptation of Satan man transgressed the command of God, and fell from his original innocence whereby his posterity inherit a nature and an environment inclined toward sin. Therefore, as soon as they are capable of moral action, they become transgressors and are under condemnation. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God. The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.

Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.

Regeneration, or the new birth, is a work of God's grace whereby believers become new creatures in Christ Jesus. It is a change of heart wrought by the Holy Spirit through conviction of sin, to which the sinner responds in repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Repentance and faith are inseparable experiences of grace.

Repentance is a genuine turning from sin toward God. Faith is the acceptance of Jesus Christ and commitment of the entire personality to Him as Lord and Saviour.

Justification is God's gracious and full acquittal upon principles of His righteousness of all sinners who repent and believe in Christ. Justification brings the believer unto a relationship of peace and favor with God.

Sanctification is the experience, beginning in regeneration, by which the believer is set apart to God's purposes, and is enabled to progress toward moral and spiritual maturity through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in him. Growth in grace should continue throughout the regenerate person's life.

Glorification is the culmination of salvation and is the final blessed and abiding state of the redeemed.

Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He regenerates, justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. It is consistent with the free agency of man, and comprehends all the means in connection with the end. It is the glorious display of God's sovereign goodness, and is infinitely wise, holy, and unchangeable. It excludes boasting and promotes humility.

All true believers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified by His Spirit, will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall persevere to the end. Believers may fall into sin through neglect and temptation, whereby they grieve the Spirit, impair their graces and comforts, and bring reproach on the cause of Christ and temporal judgments on themselves; yet they shall be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.

A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel; observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Each congregation operates under the Lordship of Christ through democratic processes. In such a congregation each member is responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. Its scriptural officers are pastors and deacons. While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.

The New Testament speaks also of the church as the Body of Christ which includes all of the redeemed of all the ages, believers from every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.

Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer's faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, the believer's death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus. It is a testimony to his faith in the final resurrection of the dead. Being a church ordinance, it is prerequisite to the privileges of church membership and to the Lord's Supper.

The Lord's Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.

The first day of the week is the Lord's Day. It is a Christian institution for regular observance. It commemorates the resurrection of Christ from the dead and should include exercises of worship and spiritual devotion, both public and private. Activities on the Lord's Day should be commensurate with the Christian's conscience under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

The Kingdom of God includes both His general sovereignty over the universe and His particular kingship over men who willfully acknowledge Him as King. Particularly the Kingdom is the realm of salvation into which men enter by trustful, childlike commitment to Jesus Christ. Christians ought to pray and to labor that the Kingdom may come and God's will be done on earth. The full consummation of the Kingdom awaits the return of Jesus Christ and the end of this age.

God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.
My Church Home
My Church Home is Glade Branch Baptist Church in Pitkin, LA. Glade Branch Baptist Church

More importantly, I think my church home is where two or more gather in Christ's name and my home is found in the Body of Believers.
Books I Like
The Scriptures, Christian Books, Historical Fiction, Modern Westerns, and Some Modern Fiction.
Music I like
Comtempary Christian, Southern Gospel, Country, Classic Rock
Public Email
http://matt@inchristalways.org
Instant Messager/ User Name
Yahoo: matthew_hamrick
Your Website
http://inchristalways.org
Faviorte Website
http://logos.com
Website
http://blog.inchristalways.org
Website
http://foxnews.com
Website
http://christianbook.com

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At 2:16pm on October 6, 2008, Mina said…
Jesus bless u and all your family brother wish every thing is ok with u
At 7:48am on September 20, 2008, Rev. John & Tabitha Pike said…

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At 9:19am on September 16, 2008, Mina said…
God bless u brother
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At 4:48am on September 9, 2008, Mina said…
ty brother for your comment about Egypt you are welcom to come back anytime Jesus bless you and all your family
At 7:17am on September 7, 2008, Tami said…
Praise the name of the Lord.

How are you?
Thank you for your welcome comment, Matthew.
Answering to your question, I've just had a hardship by
telling the gospel a certain person, and lost spirit because this trial was dangerous spiritually taking around a year. I know I also acted by mistake.

But Jesus kept me hold tightly. When I'm recovered from
that pain, I will resume to lead people to Jesus. :)

By the way, I like your playlists. They encourage me :D

God bless you.

In Christ,
Tami
At 11:42am on August 25, 2008, Kizzie Smith said…
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At 2:20pm on August 24, 2008, Kizzie Smith said…
Thanks for the invitation. Have a blessed week!
At 2:06pm on August 20, 2008, Rev. John & Tabitha Pike said…
It makes sense. Thank you. I hope you find the answer to your question. God bless you.
At 12:17pm on August 20, 2008, Rev. John & Tabitha Pike said…
That sounds wonderful. Do you know how to add extra links at the bottom of the page like my COCFM banner. If you do send me your banner code and I will add it at the bottom of the page. If you also could tell me where to go. I can't remember where I went to add the banner to this page. I am still learning this site.
 
 

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