False Christian teachings, trends….
This post contains an 11-minute excerpt of a Tim Conway sermon on renewing the mind. There is a list of sermon highlights of the video. He says a lot about how the word impacts those who abide in it. This is for every Christian, as new and old Christians alike may have trouble abiding in God’s word.
There are two brief videos in this post, each are sermon excerpts of pastor Tim Conway sermons. The first provides a useful picture of the problem of repentance and the second a graphic depiction of hell. Each will slap you startle you with a dose of biblical reality. We all tend to backslide on occasion, even the great warrior king and poet, David backslid. I believe many Christians are grateful for his failure, as it demonstrated to all who read the Bible that God is merciful and forgiving; and sinners may start walking with God again, even after great failures. The videos provide warnings and encouragement for such as are in need of these.
This post contains a 14-minute sermon excerpt of Matthew 7:13 and 14 by Voddie Baucham. He describes the narrow gate and hard way very clearly; he also provided a clear biblical picture of repentance. If you were saved via the sinner’s prayer, then you will be shocked. There are a few other pastors in our time that describe these things similarly, John MacArthur and Paul Washer for example. I chose to excerpt this brief section from his 72-minute sermon for that picture of repentance, as I believe it is rarely preached in the church of our day. If you want to understand just what the way of life that Christ described in Matthew 7 looks like, then please listen to this excerpt. The last 3 minutes are a closing prayer. Baucham’s entire sermon is also posted for those who might like to hear it. I listened to it several times over the past week; it is worthy of book marking and returning to until it is digested
Dr. James Boyce was preaching on the Jubilee year today. As he talked about the various aspects of this topic, he came to discuss the kinsman redeemer. I was familiar with that idea from the book of Ruth; but I did not know that Boaz was a type of Christ. The initial 3 minutes of the following mp4, are about the kinsman redeemer and how it is that the Lord Jesus Christ fulfills that role to us; the other 7 minutes of the sermon include some related material about property…regarding the Jubilee year.
Vlogger John Henry’s video description: Gender ideology, homosexuality, and queer theory are the things that I didn’t know were closely related… until I stumbled the across the infamous documentary What is a woman? by Matt Walsh from the Daily Wire, and several teachings of Voddie Baucham, John MacArthur, and H. B. Charles on the subject of gender theory and homosexuality. What ensued after was a dive into rabbit hole unlike any other, from corrupt and immoral laws, to debauchery, to a wretched and unbiblical lifestyle, to a whole new way of thinking about sex and sexuality. This… is the dark world of Gender ideology and Homosexuality.
This post contains a 24-minute mp3 sermon by Dr. James Boyce on the Day of Atonement. He makes clear the sacrifices of the Old Testament and shows how Christ fulfilled these. If you aren’t clear on these things, then you will likely glean understanding from his clear exposition of Leviticus 16. His sermon is far more enjoyable to listen to that it is to read through and attempt to understand Lev. 16 on your own.
This post contains the morning and evening thoughts for today, from C H Spurgeon’s commentary by the same name. I noted that this devotional is free with E-sword. And that E-sword is a free download for pc and Mac; it costs about $3 for smart phones. You can customize it to your liking via downloading as many free Bible versions, commentaries and dictionaries as you like. There are many free versions of each, and you may purchase versions of each.
A question was asked Pastor John from Judges 19 and it was phrased in terms of the title above.
In the following 13-minute video, Pastor John provided three reasons for the violence in the Bible. [The following points are summarized highlights from the video; Piper’s words are used in part.] There two phrases in the book of Judges that provide a glimpse into the answer to this question, they are 1) in those days, there was no king in Israel; and 2) In those days, everyone did what was right in his own eyes. His big point under this heading was that the river of evil flowing from the human heart runs wild without the dam of civil authority to keep it from spilling over onto the entire earth….
The 94-second video in this post uses scripture to explain how it is that Christians are still sinners.
In this post, Dr. MacArthur is explaining, from the Lord’s prayer, the phrase, Lead Us Not Into Temptation. His words also provide some general information that will be useful to all Christians.