There are several ways that the truth of the words of God has been declared. The declaration of truth has been verbal, visible, written, and testified. Verbal declaration – someone heard the Lord speak. See Jn 1:18, 1 Jn 1:1-5, and 2 Pet 1:16-21. At Mt Sinai, the Jew’s heard...
Pauls Objectives Phil.3:7-12 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Pauls objectives when it came to Jesus Christ were very simple. He desired to win, know and apprehend Christ. I’m thankful to Pastor John Robinson, of Bible Believers Baptist Church in Hillsboro, Oregon, who preached this text at a recent pastors’ conference. It...
Dagon 1 Sam. 5:1-5 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Dagon is the fish god of the Philistines. It is interesting when the ark is put in the house of Dagon that the statue falls to the ground before the ark. And on the next day it is on the ground again but this time...
Prov 8:35 shows you how, with God, to have favor by wisdom. “For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD”. On recent Wednesday nights, we have been studying how to have favor with God. We have seen from the scripture that loving favor is rather...
1 Sam 3:1-21 The Word of God CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO 1 Sam 3 is one of the great chapters in the Bible on the word of God. In this chapter we see a number of things concerning the word of God that are very instructive to us today. The...
Ephesians 5:15-21 Introduction: Every step the believer takes in life should be intentional and with purpose. Because it is so easy to take a wrong step in life and spend a lot of wasted time tying to correct our walk, we should consider the steps that we take. This is...
Good Moderate Habits Phil 4:5 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Good moderate habits are essential to building good Christian character and developing a strong Christian life. Likewise, good convictions are essential. We preached a sermon titled “Your Convictions” on Sept 26, 2018, which you may read and to which you may...
Judges 17:1-13 The Young Man Became Micah’s Priest CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In Jud 17:1-13, we see something terribly wrong with the idols and priest of Micah. Micah making these idols and consecrating this priest is what’s wrong with a religion doing this today. In this passage, consecrating Micah’s priest entailed: The wrong concept...
We all have people with whom we want to speak about the Lord. And sometimes it can be very hard to know what to say, when to say it, and how to say it. I asked Pastor Hoots to pray for me about witnessing to my family. And he said...
In the Song of Solomon is recorded an ongoing conversation between Solomon and his wife. The book typifies the relationship between Jesus Christ and his bride, the church. Jesus Christ is the friend to whom the bride is referring in SoS 5:16 when she says, “This is my friend.” Jesus is: Beloved – in...
