What We Believe

I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.”

— Genesis 3:15, NRSV

“But before [Adam and Eve] left [the Garden], God made a promise. He promised that the evil Serpent, the Devil, would always be at war with Eve and her children.

Now that doesn’t sound like a very nice promise - that bad guys and good guys would fight all the time. Who wants to be in a war that never ends?

But here’s where the good part of the promise comes in: God promised that one of Eve’s children would, someday, eventually, sooner or later, crush the head of that nasty Snake.

Nobody knew when or how, but she would have a child to put things right.”

From The Biggest Story: How the Snake Crusher Brings Us Back to the Garden, by Rev. Dr. Kevin DeYoung

This is where the Story begins.

We believe that Jesus, the Snake-Crusher, the Second Adam, our Redeemer, came to seek us, the lost and wandering, and, through His perfect life, sacrificial death on the cross, and His resurrection from the grave, triumphed over death, sin, and evil, and rescues His people by bringing them into relationship with the God of the universe. And He will come again - to make all things new, to wipe away every tear - and to “bring us back to the Garden.”

“3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred..”

- The Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 15

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God’s Plan of Salvation

Rooted in the Church Through the Ages

As Presbyterians, we belong to a rich theological tradition shaped by centuries of faithful study of the Scriptures - from the early church fathers, to the Reformation thinkers, and through those faithfully holding to the Word today, we join with countless saints of ages past and present in holding to this theological tradition. Specifically, our denomination holds to the Westminster Standards “as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures.”