Cedar Lodge Baptist Church

06/03/2026

Understanding Bible Prophecy - 6pm - Wednesday nights - we're in the book of 1 Samuel - faith family prayer follows.

06/02/2026

Elon University cranks out "ministers" like this every year. Completely apostate heretics of the worst kind. Sadly, we have some of them right here in Tville, misleading biblically illiterate people.

From X:
Rev. Rebecca Todd Peters, an ordained Presbyterian Church (USA) minister and professor of religious studies at Elon University in North Carolina. In a sermon, she said: “If Jesus were giving his sermon today, he might also have said, “Blessed are those who end pregnancies, for they will be known for their loving kindness.”

Peters also stated that if Jesus were alive today, he would be a clinic es**rt or an “abortion doula” holding women’s hands and offering support during abortions.  She serves on the Clergy Advocacy Board of Planned Parenthood and personally es**rts patients at abortion clinics once a month.

This is not Christianity. This is literally insane. Progressive Christianity is an oxymoron.

05/31/2026

https://youtu.be/4JeAx2TiPLw

Pastor N J Rich 1 Corinthians 16

05/31/2026

In Christ I am Strong
May 31-June 6, 2026 CLBC Isaiah 40:27-31 Week 23

“27 Jacob, why do you say, and Israel, why do you assert,
“My way is hidden from the Lord, and my claim is ignored by my God”? 28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the whole earth. He never becomes faint or weary; there is no limit to his understanding.
29 He gives strength to the faint and strengthens the powerless.
30 Youths may become faint and weary, and young men stumble and fall 31 but those who trust in the Lord will renew their strength; they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not become weary, they will walk and not faint.”

The Jewish exiles in Babylon had been drifting between struggling faith and cynical defiance. Isaiah understood that there are two kinds of doubt that people wrestle with. The first is a doubt that struggles to believe. The father of the demon possessed boy had this problem, “I do believe, help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24). This kind of doubt is open to God’s answers.

The second kind of doubt is the one that resists belief. Even when good and sufficient reasons are offered, this kind of doubt folds its arms in defiance and says, “Nope! I still doubt it, and nothing you can say will satisfy me.” That kind of doubt isn’t even able to hear what God has to say.

Knowing that he probably won’t reach the second group, Isaiah writes to the first group, and to you and me, and reminds us of who God is, “The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the whole earth.” V28.

You and I are locked inside a narrow little slot of time called “right now.” The present moment is all we experience, and the urgency of this moment can squeeze us with its pressures, to make costly mistakes out of our own exaggerated sense of emergency.
God is not confined to time. In His eternality God is equally present to all points of time at once. He is always out ahead of us. That is why we should never panic if things aren’t coming together according to our timelines. God is working His purpose out in His own way, at His own pace, without our hurried desperation.

Isaiah’s point in verses 30-31 is that human strength, at its very best, will always, inevitably, fail. In v31 Isaiah is not merely saying, “God enables those who draw strength from His promise.” He is saying, “God enables those who draw strength from His promise to do the impossible.” The weak soar like eagles and run without tiring and walk without quitting. Their confidence in God will not let them lie down and give up. It’s not a matter of willpower but of expectancy.

The key word is “trust.” v31. Trusting in the Lord means living in confidence with the tension of promises revealed but not yet fulfilled. Trusting in the Lord isn’t just killing time. It isn’t sitting around, drumming your fingers. It is waiting on tip-toe, waiting with eager longing. It is forgetting what lies behind, straining forward to what lies ahead, and pressing on toward the goal (Philippians 3:13-14). Trusting God results in steady progress, slow though it may be at times, sustained by the conviction that it is God’s strength working in us and through us to His glory.

Timeless Truth: I am strongest when I trust fully in God.

Until next time – Pastor N J

If you have any questions concerning salvation, feel free to email us at: [email protected] or [email protected]

05/28/2026

Men's Fellowship Thursday night 6pm in the Activity Room.

05/28/2026

Ladies Bible Study and fellowship - Thursday morning at 10am in the Activity Room.

05/24/2026

https://youtu.be/1PTBYcNSA84

Pastor N J Rich 1 Corinthians 15:20-58

05/24/2026

In Christ I am Alive
May 24-30, 2026 CLBC Romans 6:8-14 Week 22

“Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, 9 because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over him. 10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all time; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11 So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires. 13 And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness. 14 For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.”

As we continue in our study in Romans 6, we see that our walk must match our words. Our theology – what we believe about God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, must be lived out daily in our actions.

The argument that we should continue in sin because we are under grace is absolutely false! The reverse is true. It is impossible for us to continue living like we did before we became a Christian. In fact, those who argue that grace allows us to sin — that their sin will ultimately glorify God anyway — are revealing they are not actually under grace! They are not Christians, no matter how much they argue otherwise. When we have experienced unity with Christ, our lifestyle will reflect that reality, just like our unity with Adam was obvious in our lifestyle.

If one’s life has not changed, and if there is no desire for a deeper walk with Jesus, he or she is very probably not a Christian.

What v11 is teaching is that we must “consider ourselves dead to sin.” We must consciously decide that sin no longer has any power over us since we are dead to its appeal and it is dead to our new life.

That’s how we put verses 12-13 into action. This demands a decisive act. All of us must come to a time when we present every part of our being to God for righteousness.

Have you done that? Perhaps you have started refusing to yield your body to the service of sin. That is good, but it is not enough. You must take the next step: “Take and use my entire life, Lord.”

Look at the word choices in this passage. The Holy Spirit chose the word “weapons” for the Apostle to use here. We need to understand that the various parts of our body – our eyes, ears, mind, mouth, hands and feet – can either be used as weapons of unrighteousness or as weapons of righteousness.

If sin still rules over us, we are literally a weapon in Satan’s hand, harming ourselves and those around us. Unsaved people are literally bringers of death and destruction wherever they go. God’s children are to be bringers of light and love and life wherever we go. That is because the Holy Spirit rules over us and we walk in the truth of the resurrection (Ephesians 2:1-5).

As believers in Jesus Christ, let us walk through this fallen world in righteousness, shining the light of the Gospel everywhere we go!

Until next time – Pastor N J

If you have any questions concerning salvation, feel free to email us at: [email protected] or [email protected]

05/21/2026

No meeting tonight. Be safe out there.