Your Own Desire One of the worst things God can do is give you your own desire, when it’s your desire but not his.  Israel wanted flesh to eat when they were in the wilderness and God brought them quail, Num 11.   He gave them their own desire, Ps...

Choke the Word Mk 4:19 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Mk 4:19 exposes three things that choke the word and make it unfruitful.  These choke the word in a Christian and choke the word when it is preached to a lost person.  These three things choke the word: Cares of this...

God Gave Them Up Ps 81:12 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO One of the most tragic statements in the Bible is, God gave them up.  When God gives you up to something and leaves you alone to go after it, you are well nigh hopeless, at that point.  Notice the progression of...

Jas 1:14 says, “every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”  Lust is a natural feature of our lives.  Lust by itself is not sin or even necessarily a bad thing.  Look at Deut 12:15, 20, 21 and 14:26.  When lust, however, draws...

We began a short series on spiritual depression in the prior broadcast.  Today, we will continue to study some Biblical reasons for and solutions to spiritual depression.   In many cases, depression is something you can address spiritually rather than chemically, through anti-depressants.  You can often make changes in your...

Pureness of Heart Prov. 22:11 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In Prov 22:11, Solomon wrote about a person that loveth pureness of heart.  Now think about that… pureness of heart.  That should be the goal of every Christian.  I realize that the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked.  But with Christ in...

Spiritual Help for Sexual Sins Gal 5:22 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO We have been preaching a short series on help for sexual sins.  Today’s topic is spiritual help for sexual sins.  The nature of these sins is that they are rooted in spiritual problems.  That’s why you need scriptural help...

Preoccupied II Cor. 10:5 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Your mind is preoccupied when a matter or a subject dominates or engrosses your mind to the exclusion of other thoughts.  It appears that many young Christians are preoccupied these days.  You can run a little two-part self-test to see if you are...

Don’t Choose Sin as the Remedy Eph. 4:26 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In Eph 4:26 Paul says, “Be ye angry, and sin not.”  So there is an allowance for anger.  The point is that at times anger is an appropriate response to something wrong.  Look at Jesus in Mark 3:5.  He...

Wandering Out Of The Way Prov. 21: 16 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Prov 21:16 says, “The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.”  This is one of the most ignored verses in the Bible.  It speaks of a specific right way...