William Knelsen

This is a question that is very common: are we saved by faith or are we saved by obedience? This is a very troubling question, and I think it is the wrong question. If you have heard the gospel of Jesus, and have made a decision to believe that it is true. If you have …

The blessing of Jesus is not dependant on our situation. It is not dependant on material possessions, or power, or prestige. It infiltrates these things and transforms them from the inside. Some of us get so caught up in looking a hundred miles away for how God is working, that we fail to see what …

We tend to talk about building the kingdom and expanding the kingdom. I use that language fairly often, and I don’t disagree with it. But, there is a sense of understanding the kingdom as something we first and primarily receive and enter into. The kingdom is also the place from which we are sent. Of …

Note: this is a summary of a sermon I preached from Jeremiah 1. You can listen to it on the Bergen Church website. If you have begun to follow Jesus and trust in him, you might be asking yourself, “what has God called me to do?” It’s a good question. The typical next step when asking …

You have heard the saying. Practice what you preach! We say it to someone we are judging as hypocritical. Someone who is telling people to behave a certain way, even though the person doing the telling does not behave that way. I was thinking about that this morning while working on my sermon for this …