Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
A fifteen point message is a bit long for one sitting, even if each of those points are as sharp and wonderful as I usually make them. Keeping that in mind, I cut short our morning message and finish it this evening. We were talking about Abraham’s faith,...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
One of the most heart-warming stories in the Bible is that of David and Mephiboseth. Saul had 3 sons and 2 daughters, and at least one of those sons was twice the man that his father was. Prince Jonathan was courageous, wise, out-going and, more importantly, far more...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Will there be any computers in Heaven? I rather think that there won’t. We certainly won’t need any kind of computer entertainment – video games and that sort of thing. And how much of the Lord’s wisdom and knowledge will the glorified saints...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
No one can accuse Paul of not being thorough. And because he has been so thorough, we have already reasonably covered the subject of justification. The word in its various forms has come up ten times thus far in the Book of Romans. In one way or another, we have...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Paul does not completely finish the subject of saving grace at the conclusion of chapter 4. But he does begin to take the subject to a new level. It’s a strange phenomenon, but there are a lot of people who begin their spiritual journey theologically correct,...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
The Matterhorn was one the last mountains in the Alps to be climbed. It is like an arrowhead coming up out of the ground and piercing the sky. It may not be in the Rockies, or the Himalayas, but it is still a huge mountain at about 14,700 feet high. The article that...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
I’d like to take our message from this morning one step farther. But there is a problem in that this is considered by many people to be a very big step farther. It’s a step that a lot of preachers would never make, because they don’t trust their...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
According to my records, this is the 208th message that I have prepared and preached on the subject of sin. Spread over 35 years that may not sound like a lot of sermons – just 6 per year. But then again, when we are talking about only 3 congregations that is...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
We had a man and his family who visited with us for a while, before he decided that we were unworthy. One of the first things that upset him was that I made reference to the magazine “Christianity Today.” I don’t suppose that I need to confess that...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
In South Africa men go deep into the earth – miles under the ground – to bring up diamonds. In other places diamonds are scooped up by shovels and sometimes even picked up like dimes on a street. As they are first seen, these diamonds are not...
