Jan 8, 2024 | Sunday Evening
As your pastor and just as fellow Christian, I am in constant need of your prayers – for a great many reasons. Here is another to add to the list: I am thinking of bringing a series of messages on Christian sins. Pray for the Lord’s direction in this. Should I, or...
Jan 1, 2024 | Sunday Evening
Nearly every verse in this great Psalm could be developed into sermon. Furthermore, we could take several verses and come up with thoughts for the beginning of a new year. For example there is verse 3 – “Thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s...
Dec 17, 2023 | Sunday Evening
We have a special purpose this afternoon: the ordination of our first deacon in more than thirty years. Some time ago, in preparation for this day, we had five lessons on the office of deacon. I have no intention of repeating those lessons now, even though they may...
Nov 19, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that most people want what Jeremiah was talking about here. At least the part about “the joy and rejoicing of mine heart.” If nothing more, no one is looking for, searching for, or hoping for – unhappiness and sorrow. I don’t know...
Nov 13, 2023 | Sunday Evening
If you don’t know already, pastors are human – afflicted with some of the same maladies as you. We not only get colds, in-grown toe nails, and fatigue, but we have some of our own peculiar problems. But three pastoral pestilences, which can infect any of us, include...
Nov 6, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Let’s say that you and your neighbor are chatting one day. He knows that you are a Christian. You have shared your testimony with him on several occasions and invited him to church. But, as he has said that “he is satisfied with his religion.” You know that he was...
Oct 30, 2023 | Sunday Evening
John 17 is one of the Bible’s holiest chapters. It rivals or surpasses any of the Psalms. That is because we get to overhear a conversation within the Godhead – the Son speaking to the Father. This is not the prayer of a godly saved person, like David, speaking with...
Oct 22, 2023 | Sunday Evening
I’m going to come very close to breaking one of my personal, homiletical rules. “Homiletics,” by the way, is a fancy word for sermon preparation and preaching. I really dislike it when I hear preachers read a scripture to begin a sermon and then never return to it. I...
Oct 16, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Last Sunday, Brother Haug gave us a heart-warming rendition of Augustus Toplady’s hymn “Rock of Ages.” Some people claim that “Rock of Ages” is the number one best and most popular hymn in Christendom. Some make it equal to “Amazing Grace” – which has far less of a...
Oct 9, 2023 | Sunday Evening
I have no idea how I came up with this outline, but I have had it for years. And it is obvious to me that it is not an Oldfield original, although I’ve adopted and adapted it. I prefer to preach textual messages, drawing out and applying the meaning of a particular...
Oct 2, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Let’s think about attitudes this evening; particularly the attitude of discontentment – dissatisfaction. As we begin, some people may be thinking that this is going to be a negative message. Certainly some aspects of discontentedness are sinfully evil. But at...
Sep 17, 2023 | Sunday Evening
I would like to piggy-back off Bro. Fulton’s message last Sunday night. If you’ll remember it was titled: “How to Watch.” Hopefully I wont be contradicting anything Austin said, but I’d like to take his message a step farther, emphasizing for what things we should be...
Sep 4, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Let’s say that a man drove up and parked a brand new Lamborghini Urus automobile in your drive way. Then he walked up to your door, rang the bell, handed you the keys and some paper work and walked away. Let’s say some extraordinarily rich person gave you a $250,000...
Aug 27, 2023 | Sunday Evening
We call it “Noah’s Flood,” but it wasn’t Noah’s at all; it was the judgment of the Almighty God on other sinners. It was, without question, the most astounding, mind-boggling event in the annals of time. It was the most creation-changing, the most negatively...
Aug 20, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Let’s begin with a brief explanation of this scripture. Peter begins with the gospel – Christ died in order that wicked, ungodly people, like us, might be saved. “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to...
