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Here is a sermon I preached at Bethel Grace Baptist Church. It covers three main points. 1. The danger and lure of sin, 2. The consequences of sin, and 3. The grace of God for the child of God even in the consequences of sin. The mp3 of this sermon can be downloaded here. God […]
Read More Gehazi’s Leprosy – 2 Kings 5:20-27Here is a link to a sermon I preached recently at Communion Presbyterian Church on the cities of refuge and how they point to Christ. The text is Joshua 20. The MP3 can also be downloaded at the link. Christ our Refuge God Bless, Doug
Read More Christ Our Refuge (How the Cities of Refuge Point to Christ)Sanctification is process that will not be completed on this side of heaven, which means that right now we still have issues of sin that the Lord is dealing with. This video looks at some of the things a true Child of God can face when God deals with us in our sinfulness. Even […]
Read More Brokenness and Sanctification (Dark Nights of the Soul)Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out,” that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. Acts 3:19 Our God is so gracious that even after we have rebelled against him, he not only wipes out our sins, but he also goes on to give us times of […]
Read More Times of RefreshingI count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ. Phil. 3:8 Our hearts are easily lured away by the fleeting shadows of this world, and these […]
Read More When Loss is Gain“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted” (Matthew 5:4). Mourning is hateful and irksome to poor human nature. From suffering and sadness our spirits instinctively shrink. By nature we seek the society of the cheerful and joyous. Our text presents an anomaly to the unregenerate, yet it is sweet music to the […]
Read More Blessed Are They That Mourn – A.W. PinkI had a co-worker once who loved just about everything Disney. He put a sticker on his car, and would proudly wear Disney hats and shirts. He was one of the managers at the store where I was working, and I remember one day when everything was going wrong he said to me, when this […]
Read More Was that Worship???Many Christians are familiar with the music of Ray Boltz. In the 1990’s he published several songs which stayed on the Christian music charts for months and found their way into the “special music” section of church services everywhere. A few of his hits were “Thank You (for Giving to the Lord)” “Watch the […]
Read More Ray Boltz is a Homosexual: Shouldn’t We Be Glad That He is Happy?Below are the two quotes that are given in the video… “We should never come to such difference with true Christians without regret and without tears. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Believe me, evangelicals often have not shown it. We rush in, being very, very, pleased, it would seem at times, to find other people’s mistakes. […]
Read More The Problem of the Belligerent ChristianThis is not going to be another rant against the church growth movement. Though there are major problems in the seeker movement as we all know, we should all be for church growth. In fact it seems almost impossible for a church to be fulfilling the great commission without some kind of growth taking place. […]
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