Jul 1, 2018 | Sunday Morning
Without a doubt this Psalm of Asaph is speaking about Israel. It was written some time during the reign of David. This Asaph was one of David’s chief musicians. But we can’t be sure of the occasion, so we don’t know the particulars. This may have come during the...
Jun 24, 2018 | Sunday Morning
There are very few things which so clearly demonstrate God’s hatred sin as the sacrifice of the Red Heifer. For example, this is a blood sacrifice which was made – not for the wicked – but for professing believers. This came after all the sin offerings,...
Jun 10, 2018 | Sunday Morning
This scripture contains a wonderful promise about one of the most important of all things. It speaks about salvation from sin though the Lord Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, this is a scripture which is also very often abused. It is highly mis-used by ignorant people...
Jun 3, 2018 | Sunday Morning
It’s been a few weeks now, but one morning last winter you awoke not feeling your usual perky self. You felt listless and unenergetic – you woke up tired – but not your usual tired – this was different. You didn’t have any appetite for breakfast and then later in...
May 27, 2018 | Sunday Morning
As I read these words, it is with an emotion which is entirely human. No human being, poet or prophet, has been spiritual enough to fully understand these divine emotions. But I THINK I hear an anguish – a tear if you like – in the voice of God as He reasons with...
May 20, 2018 | Sunday Morning
Four or five weeks ago we considered the circumstances of Saul’s conversion to Christ – His salvation. The Lord sovereignly intervened in the life of a man who was determined to whatever he wanted to do with his three score and ten years on this earth. But he was...
May 6, 2018 | Sunday Morning
In the Old Testament, there are three major characters who stand head and shoulders above all others. And they don’t include King Saul, through whom that phrase was coined. I Samuel 9:2 says, that Saul was “a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not...
Apr 29, 2018 | Sunday Morning
If you have never met someone calling himself an “atheist” then you have led a sheltered life. If you’ve never met someone who LIVED like an atheist then you had better check your pulse. They are just about as common as mosquitos, and they bear...
Apr 22, 2018 | Sunday Morning
Have you ever been on a vacation which was so perfect – so wonderful – that you hated to return? Maybe it was to a place of absolute luxury, or a place of apparent perfect peace. Back home you knew that you had serious problems to solve or you knew that stress would...
Apr 16, 2018 | Sunday Morning
Everyone who has ever become a child of God, has been saved in the same way. There are aspects of salvation which are always the same – things like justification and propitiation. When a person is born again, his regeneration always displays itself in repentance and...
Apr 8, 2018 | Sunday Morning
If I was to offer a $1000 prize to the person who could name North America’s longest-running television news magazine, I think my money would remain quite safe in my own pocket. The show to which I am referring started in 1966 and is still running – that is over 50...
Apr 1, 2018 | Sunday Morning
According to the Associated Press, Brian Kelly, of suburban Detroit, knew that he was dying. In July 1994 he had abdominal surgery, but there was no hope, and he knew it. So he went to his boss at the Independence Professional Fireworks and made special request....
Mar 25, 2018 | Sunday Morning
Years ago some philosopher gave this estimation of a full and fruitful life. He said – “Raise a good son, plant a good tree, and write a good book.” He suggested that it was not one or two, but all three that resulted in a good life. If that is the true...
Mar 18, 2018 | Sunday Morning
When it comes to Hollywood movies and Broadway shows, there isn’t much for Christians to enjoy. But every once in a while something comes along which is not as morally offensive as the majority. And one of those productions has been mentioned around here a time or...
Mar 11, 2018 | Sunday Morning
There are church buildings up and down this valley that are filled with people today. There are also a lot of people not in church, but we live amongst a great deal of religion. Many of our near-by churches are much younger than this one. And some of them just SEEM...
