Is this church? (long)
August 10, 2011 at 10:10 am | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: abominable, abortion, Abraham, abuse, airy, America, American, anathema, argument, articulate, assurance, ateasetees, attention, aunty, Awake My Soul, BAM, band, baptize, belief, Bible, Bill Gates, blessing, blood, Bob Dylan, body, Born Again, Brawny, breath, broken, brokenhearted, brutality, burial, campus, captive, card, cast vision, casual, changing, cheek, children, Chris Tomlin, Christian, church, circus, comfort, command, community, compromise, concert, condemn, confrontation, congregation, connect, consequence, content, context, conversation, conviction, correct, corrupt, cotton candy, counsel, creation, creature, cringe, cross, crowd, crucifixion, culture, darkness, death, defend, defile, deliverance, demon, desire, devestating, devil, direct, disciple, disease, disobedience, distress, doctrine, Donald Trump, doorpost, downhill, earth, Egypt, Emergent, emotional, empire, encourage, enmity, entertainment, eternal, evangelism, evangelize, event, evil, exhort, exile, Exodus, faith, fame, family, Father, favor, feelings, fight, flag, flowery, fool, foreign, forgiven, formality, fortune, fresh air, friend, fundamental, future, Galatians, generation, gift, global, glory, goats, God, God is Alive, good, good news, gospel, grace, growth, guide, harsh, head, heal, health, heart, heaven, hell, history, holy, Holy Spirit, homosexuality, hope, humanity, identity, incoulate, information, iron, irrelevant, Islam, Israel, Jesus, Jew, joke, journey, judgment, justification, kingdom, Lamb, laugh track, law, lemming, life, limb, list, living, logo, love, marriage, mercy, mess, message, mindset, ministry, Missouri, mistake, money, movement, murder, narrative, narrow minded, nation, need, needy, New Age, North Point Church, obedience, observe, offend, old man, old-fashioned, oppression, Our God, paper towel, pastor, Paul, peace, perfect, performance, Pharisee, pinch, plan, poor, power, prayer, preaching, priest, Promised Land, prophet, Psalm, pursue, reach out, ready, reality, reason, rebirth, rebuke, redeem, redemption, relationship, relevant, religious, remark, repent, replace, restore, resurrection, righteous, road map, Rob Bell, rock, Romans, salvation, sappy, saved, Savior, scripture, secular, seek, sermon, service, shadow, shallow, sharpen, sheep, shepherd, Shimano, sign, sin, Sinner, sitcom, slave, slick, soldier, son, sons, sound bite, speak, spiritual, Springfield, states, story, stream, suffer, sugary, syrupy, talk, ten commandments, theology, times, Todd Bentley, Tommy Sparger, traffic, train, transgression, tremble, truth, turn aside, typo, understand, ungrounded, universalism, unloving, uplifting, urgency, videos, wallow, wealth, website, wit, worship, wrath, writer, Zebco
While I don’t really care for Bob Dylan and don’t think that he could carry a tune in a bucket, I do have to agree with one thing he said. The times are definitely changing. Today’s culture is one that has been fed with 10 second sound bites, information at the tips of your fingers, and everything you could possibly want at any time you could want it. Problems are solved in 30 minute sitcoms with a laugh track and witty remarks. The attention span of the average human is now so short that if you don’t catch it and keep it within the first few seconds, it has already moved on to something more appealing or eye-catching. Everything is about entertainment and how it makes a person feel. It is a shallow, quickly moving stream that an inattentive person could easily get lost and drown in. It is in this time, this culture, and this mindset that the church of Christ finds itself. And it is here that the church finds itself changing. Continue Reading Is this church? (long)…
Sermon Sunday – J.C. Ryle – Freedom
July 3, 2011 at 6:30 am | Posted in Sermon Sunday | Leave a commentTags: abortion, abuse, action, Adam, adoption, affection, alcohol, Alfred, ambition, Amen, America, American, anger, ateasetees, attention, authority, banish, baptism, beer, behead, Bible, birth, blessing, blood, body, bondage, bow, brotherhood, burden, burn, calling, Canaan, Catholic, chains, champion, change, character, Charles IX, choose, Christian, church, citizen, civil, comfort, company, compromise, condemn, confess, conqueror, conscience, content, convert, corrupt, cost, covenant, cradle, cross, crucify, curse, dark, death, debt, decay, democracy, desire, devil, dictator, Dionysius, disarm, discontent, disgrace, dismay, doctrine, doubt, dread, dying, ease, educate, Egypt, election, emotion, end, enemy, England, English, equality, eternity, evangelism, evil, exaggerate, excellence, fail, faith, fashion, fault-finding, favor, fear.smile, flood, foreign, forever, France, freedom, frown, fruit, funeral, gambling, Garden, George Washington, German, Gideon, Give me liberty or give me death, God, gospel, government, grace, grave, Greek, grumbling, guilt, Gustavus Vasa, Hampden, hang, harass, harm, hate, health, heathen, hell, hide, history, holiness, holy, home, hope, Horatius, human, ignorance, ignornat, independant, infancy, inquisition, Islam, Israel, Italy, Jesus, Jew, Jewish, John 8:36, John Knox, judgment, justify, king, kingdom, knee, land, law, Leonidas, liberator, liberty, life, Lord, love, lust, maker, man, manhood, marriage, Martin Luther, Mary, master, material, membership, mercy, Messiah, mighty, military, misery, mob, monarch, money, mood, moral, Moses, murder, murmur, nature, Nero, Netherlands, obsession, opinion, overvalue, parasite, pardon, party, passion, pastor, Patrick Henry, patriot, Paul, peace, perfect, personal, Pharaoh, Pharisee, Philistine, philosphy, pinch, plot, Poland, pole, politics, poor, pope, power, prayer, press, price, privilege, promote, property, public, purgatory, Rabbi, reconcile, Redeemer, redemption, reign, religious, repent, representative, republic, resolve, rest, Robert Bruce, Roman, Rome, rule, sacrifice, salvation, Savior, scorn, scripture, sermon, shadow, shoe, sick, sickness, sign, sin, slavery, snare, son, sorrow, soul, Spain, Sparta, speech, spiritual, strong, struggle, substitute, suffer, support, Swiss, Syracuse, Tarsus, tempt, ten commandments, theology, thought, tongue, Trinity, true, trumpet, truth, tyranny, unprofitable, unworthy, vain, valley, value, victory, vile, weak, wedding, William Tell, woman, world, wretch, wretched
Freedom
by
J. C. Ryle
(1816-1900)
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“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”–John 8:36
The subject before us today deserves our attention. It should ring in the ears of every person like the voice of a trumpet. We live in a land which is the very cradle of freedom. But are we ourselves free?
The question is one which demands special attention during the present state of public opinion. The minds of many are absorbed in politics. Yet there is a freedom, within the reach of all of us, which few, I am afraid, ever think of–a freedom independent of all political changes–a freedom which neither the prevailing government, nor the cleverest politician can bestow. This is the freedom about which I speak today. Do we know anything of it? Are we free? Continue Reading Sermon Sunday – J.C. Ryle – Freedom…
Sermon Sunday – George Whitefield – Christ, the Believer’s Husband
June 5, 2011 at 8:34 am | Posted in Sermon Sunday | Leave a commentTags: Abigail, abortion, Abraham, Adam, adultery, adversary, allegory, Amen, America, Antinomian, apostle, assurance, ateasetees, avenge, backslide, believer, betroth, Bible, blind, blood, body, bone, bound, brethren, bride, bridegroom, Cana, Cephas, chaste, child, Christian, church, Colossians, compromise, condition, confusion, congregation, context, corrupt, covenant, creator, cross, crown, Cyrene, David, dead, death, denomination, design, desire, Deuteronomy, devil, disappoint, disciple, divine, divorce, doctrine, drowned, dung, duty, ear, earth, Emanuel, enemy, enthusiasm, Ephesians, evangelism, Eve, evil, exhortation, eye, Ezekiel, faith, faithfulness, fear, fire, flesh, flood, folly, foolish, fornication, foundation, fountain, friend, friendship, fruitfulness, garment, glory, God, gospel, government, grace, harlot, health, heart, Hebrew, hell, holy, Holy Ghost, Holy One, honey, honor, hope, humiliation, humility, husband, idol, idolize, ill, insult, Isaac, Israel, Jacob, Jesus, Jew, John, join, Jordan, Joseph, judgment, justification, kingdom, Lamb, law, Lazarus, legal, liberty, life, Lord of Hosts, love, lust.pride, maiden, maker, marriage, marry, Mary, master, merchant, mercy, Michal, millstone, minister, miserable, money, mourn, murder, naked, Nathaniel, nature, Nubal, object, offer, oppress, ornament, paradise, pastor, Paul, peace, performance, Peter, Pharisee, Phillipians, piety, plain, pollute, poor, positive, poverty, power, pray, prayer, preach, priest, prince, proud, pure, Rachel, Rebecca, rebellious, Redeemer, redemption, regenerate, rejoice, religion, repent, reproach, respect, reverence, rich, righteousness, Romans, sacred, saint, salvation, sanctification, Sarah, Satan, Saul, scripture, seed, serpent, servant, service, shame, sickness, SImon, sin, sing, Sinner, slave, Solomon, son, soul, Spirit, spiritual, spouse, storm, subjection, ten commandments, text, title, trample, truth, unbelief, ungenerous, unhappy, union, vanity, vengeance, vile, virgin, walk, watch, wedding, wife, witness, works, wrath, zion, Zipporah
Christ the Believer’s Husband
by
George Whitefield
(1714-1770)
Isaiah 54:5 – “For thy Maker is thy Husband.”
Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of any man living, fully to conceive, the nearness and dearness of that relation, in which they stand to their common head. He is not ashamed to call them brethren. Behold, says the blessed Jesus in the days of his flesh, “my mother and my brethren.” And again after his resurrection, “go tell my brethren.” Nay sometimes he is pleased to term believers his friends. “Henceforth call I you no longer servants, but friends.” “Our friend Lazarus sleepeth.” And what is a friend? Why there is a friend that is nearer than a brother, nay as near as one’s own soul. And “thy friend, (says God in the book of Deuteronomy) which is as thy own soul.” Kind and endearing applications these, that undoubtedly bespeak a very near and ineffably intimate union between the Lord Jesus and the true living members of his mystical body! But, methinks, the words of our text point out to us a relation, which not only comprehends, but in respect to nearness and dearness , exceeds all other relations whatsoever. I mean that of a Husband, “For thy Maker is thy husband; the Lord of Hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel, the God of the whole earth shall he be called.” Continue Reading Sermon Sunday – George Whitefield – Christ, the Believer’s Husband…
Merry Christmas!
December 24, 2009 at 2:42 pm | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: angels, Anna, ateasetees, baby, Bethlehem, Christian, circumcision, David, devout, evangelism, Gentiles, Glory to God in the Highest, God, Jesus, Joseph, Lord, Luke 2, manger, Mary, Merry Christmas, Nazareth, peace, prayer, redemption, salvation, Savior, shepherds, sign, Simeon, Spirit
Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. And everyone was on his way to register for the census, each to his own city. Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, in order to register along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and was with child.
While they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. “This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.” Continue Reading Merry Christmas!…
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