Mar 6, 2022 | First Peter, Sunday Morning
You can grow up in the same house, eat the same food and sleep in the same room… You can share the same baseball glove, and wear each other’s hand-me-downs… You can read the same books, listen to the same music and attend the same church… You...
Feb 28, 2022 | First Peter, Sunday Morning
If you were asked to rank the importance of salvation in your life, what rank would you give it? If you understand the depths of your sinfulness, and if you understand the heights of God’s righteousness, then you’d need to give salvation a rank of 10 out of 10. And if...
Feb 27, 2022 | First Peter, Sunday Morning
Jalen was born into an athletic family. His mother played soccer in high school, and his father was a college basketball player. When Jalen was just a youngster he began playing ball with his friends on the street in front of his house. By the time he was in high...
Feb 13, 2022 | First Peter, Sunday Morning
In the course of His conversation with Nicodemus in John 3, the Lord Jesus used a relatively rare word. Even more rare than the Greek word itself is the way it is translated in that passage. “For God so loved the world that he gave his ONLY BEGOTTEN Son, that...
Jan 30, 2022 | First Peter, Sunday Morning
I intend, this evening, to come back to these verses and preach them under title: “The Progression of Election.” But in an attempt to be more evangelical this morning, let’s consider the last two points of that upcoming message: “obedience” and “the sprinkling of the...
Jan 23, 2022 | Sunday Morning
A study of the Book of Hebrews is as intricate a study as Astrophysics. Astrophysics is the branch of science that deals with the physics of stellar phenomena. It is the study of things so mysterious and so far away there are new discoveries almost every day. But much...
Jan 9, 2022 | Sunday Morning
On Israel’s greatest Pentecost, Peter and the others stood before a large crowd in the court yard of the temple. When some smart alecks accused the brethren of being full of new wine, Peter replied, “These are not drunken as ye suppose…. But this is that which...
Jan 2, 2022 | Sunday Morning
As Christians we love what the Lord tells us in John 14. “Let not your heart be troubled (you disciples): ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I...
Dec 26, 2021 | Sunday Morning
Charles Spurgeon, in volume 59 of his Metropolitan Tabernacle sermons, said, “I believe that it is anti-Christian and unholy for any Christian to live with the object of accumulating wealth. You will say, ‘Are we not to strive all we can to get all the money we can?’...
Nov 28, 2021 | Sunday Morning
Most people, especially when they get to be my age, look at their lives as a series of connected units. For some people it is a series of years or decades. Their 40th birthday was celebrated with the color black, as though life is down-hill from that point. But to a...
Nov 8, 2021 | Sunday Morning
If you listen to certain segments of the news these days, you have heard the words “Critical Race Theory.” The Liberals love this idea, the conservatives hate it, and most of us are stuck somewhere in the middle. One of my first problems with the Critical Race Theory...
Oct 10, 2021 | Sunday Morning
A few of you are familiar with the “God Father” movies. I won’t point any fingers. I can’t point any fingers. In the midst of much disturbing material in that series, there was one which particularly bothers me. The leaders of the Corleone family were outwardly very...
Sep 12, 2021 | Sunday Morning
Speaking through Malachi, God has been correcting and criticizing both Israel’s priests and her people. Those priests, as part of the leadership of the nation, should have been setting a godly example. But they were accepting and offering corrupt sacrifices from the...
Aug 29, 2021 | Sunday Morning
If you were going to define “salvation” according to Biblical terms, what words would you use? If you need some help, let me give you some suggestions. When Zacharias, the father of John Baptist, had his voice miraculously restored, he began to praise God. One of the...
Aug 22, 2021 | Sunday Morning
Before we get into the application of this scripture, please remember the historical context. Malachi, the last of God’s Old Testament prophets, served the Lord after Israel returned from Babylon. Some commentaries place his ministry during the days of Zerubbabel, but...
