Oct 9, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Elizabeth Barrett’s parents disapproved of her marriage to Robert Browning so strongly they disowned her. Almost every week Elizabeth wrote letters to her mother and father pleading for some sort of reconciliation. Those letters were sent for years, but her...
Oct 2, 2016 | Sunday Morning
The Lord Jesus once gathered His disciples around Him and gave them some instructions about their ministry. He said, “What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. And fear not them which...
Sep 25, 2016 | Sunday Morning
If I was more foolish than I actually am, I might say that this scripture is full of New Testament doctrine. This passage is full of New Testament doctrine, but New Testament doctrine is also Old Testament doctrine. My foolishness would be leaving you with the...
Sep 19, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Some Christians, after just a few years of church attendance, reach the summit of spiritual understanding. Other Christians think they climb to that summit with just a few months of Bible study. After that point, there is nothing else for them to learn. At that...
Sep 4, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Before a person can learn to swim he must be able to put is face in water and permit his ears to get wet. Before a person can be an adult, he must first grow from a baby into a child and then into maturity. And before a person can be a Christian he must first be a...
Aug 28, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Of the most important differences between Bible Christianity and all other religions, including the “Christian” cults, is that the true child of God possess a very special hope. Christians have something for which to live enabling us to live through...
Aug 22, 2016 | Sunday Morning
The Apostle Paul had been directed by God to the city of Philippi to give those people the gospel of Christ. Like so many other cities, the Devil believed Philippi belonged to him, so he did what he could to try to disrupt the work of the missionaries. An unfortunate...
Aug 14, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Our subject for this morning may seem a little out our my league. This is the sort of theme which might be found in the big, liberal church down the road – not here. We are better known for more serious messages, not these mushy, topical, feel-good subjects. Around...
Aug 7, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Nearly every Christian has tried to imagine what life was like in Eden before sin darkened the picture. What was life like for Adam before his head-long fall into sin? There is no way to determine how long he and his wife lived in the garden before they were expelled....
Jul 31, 2016 | Sunday Morning
The church which is concerned about doctrinal purity, and yet still cares about evangelism and souls is going to pop up on Satan’s radar; it is going to have trouble. But when a church leaves the sword of the Spirit stuck in its scabbard, it may not only NOT have...
Jul 24, 2016 | Sunday Morning
I have entitled this message – “The Hands of Christ Jesus.” You may think I am nit-picking or just nit-witted, but I see a difference between “Christ” and “Jesus.” Oh, I know those names refer to the same person, but they approach...
Jul 17, 2016 | Sunday Morning
There once was a beautiful English garden of the old Victorian style. It had a flowering hedge, a handful of fruit trees in full bloom, and flowers of every variety. It was an “English” garden, which means that each little cluster of flowers blended into...
Jul 10, 2016 | Sunday Morning
I can’t speak for everyone, but my thoughts have often touched on Heaven in the last few weeks. And as of yesterday, that has even been more the case. Sister Willi is there with her Saviour, having temporarily left her earthly body here behind. There is much that we...
Jul 3, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Jean-Baptiste Karr, was a French writer who lived from nearly the beginning to the end of the 19th century. Jean-Baptiste is credited with the statement: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” That is true in so many ways it’s almost a...
Jun 26, 2016 | Sunday Morning
In literature, and common speech, there is an helpful tool called a “simile,” and we use it all the time. It is a figure of speech in which one thing is linked to another with words such as “like” or “as.” We might read, “He...
