What Is Preaching Like at Christians In Honesdale? A passage of Scripture is read out loud, explained, and applied to everyday life. It takes about half an hour, and Bibles are open all over the room. We show where that pattern comes from: Ezra "giving the sense" of the Law in Nehemiah 8, Jesus reading Isaiah in the synagogue, Philip explaining Isaiah to the Ethiopian, and the Bereans who checked everything Paul said against the Scriptures. We also cover what you won't hear from the pulpit, and why we actually want you to check us.

Christians In Honesdale and Seventh-day Adventists: Where the Real Differences Lie. Adventists and we both open the same Bible and confess the same Lord, so what actually separates us? We look at four questions: why Christians gather on Sunday, whether prophecy continued after the apostles, what happens between death and judgment, and who governs a congregation. We let Adventists describe their beliefs in their own words first, then go back to the text, including a few Hebrew and Greek details most comparisons skip.

Does Christians in Honesdale , as a Church, Teach Salvation by Works? People often hear this about churches of Christ, and the short answer is no. Nobody earns heaven, and God is never in anyone’s debt. But Scripture never treats grace and obedience as enemies either. We walk through Romans, Ephesians, and James, answer the question “Isn’t baptism a work?”, and speak to anyone who’s simply worn out from trying to be good enough.

New on the blog: Where Will My Kids Be During Worship at Christians in Honesale? Short answer: right next to you. There's no children's church here — your kids sit through the same singing, prayer, and sermon as everyone else, and we walk through why, from Joshua reading God's Law to "all the assembly... and the little ones" to Timothy learning Scripture "from infancy." A practical, honest look at what a first visit with kids actually looks like.

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Is the Sinner’s Prayer in the Bible? The phrase never actually appears in the New Testament — so we went back through Acts to see what people were actually told to do when they asked, in real time, how to be forgiven. From the three thousand in Jerusalem to a jailer in Philippi at midnight, the answer comes back the same way every time. A respectful, text-first look at a question a lot of us inherited an answer to without checking it. Read it here, but fact-check it for yourself.

Jehovah's Witnesses take the Bible seriously and will talk about it for hours — so will we. This week we compare notes honestly: who Jesus actually is, whether the tomb was empty or just a metaphor, who gets to stand before God's throne, and who's allowed to tell a congregation what to believe. Read it in their own words first, then check it against the text yourself.

If you've heard that churches like ours preach obedience and quietly file grace away in a drawer somewhere, we understand why that reputation exists. But it's not what you'll hear from us, and it's not what the New Testament teaches.

In this week's Blog post, we walk through what grace actually means — not a policy God adopted, but a gift He gave, with nothing in anyone's file that could have started it. We also take on the question honestly: if baptism is something we're told to do, doesn't that turn grace into a transaction? And we look at why Scripture itself treats grace and obedience as partners, not opposites — grace as the gift that saves, and grace as the teacher that keeps training us long after.

It's a good question. We think Scripture answers it without flinching. What do you think?

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What actually divides a Pentecostal denomination from a congregation like Christians In Honesdale, that answers to no one but Scripture? Our latest post lines it up honestly, point by point: why one tradition holds to sixteen written doctrines and the other holds to none, what's really at stake when tongues and divine healing are expected as normal Christian experience, and what baptism is actually doing when the water hits. No scorekeeping — just the two blueprints laid side by side so you can weigh them against the Bible yourself. Read the full comparison, and come ask us the harder questions in person.

Were you told your baby needed to be baptized? Or were you christened as an infant yourself, and you've quietly wondered ever since if it "counted"? Here's what the New Testament actually shows about who gets baptized — and why little children are already safe with God.

Wondering how long church actually takes? Here's the honest answer — worship runs about an hour, Bible study is separate and optional, and nobody's rushing the clock. Come see for yourself.