This is a great sermon by Voddie Baucham whose theme is, as he puts it, to “teach us why it is appropriate, important, and necessary to be broken.”  I might define the word as “a deep contrition to sin, realizing that we have offended God.  We realize that all our efforts are ‘sorely insufficient.’  Brokenness motivates us to true repentance and reformation of our lives.”  When we are broken, He causes us to see a negative path we have been on.  He reminds us that God does not want us to come to this place and then leave us the same–but so that He can remake us.  He wants us to conform to the very image of Christ. Scripture has another theme as well:  Our

The “Lion of Judah” company has excellent broadcasts, both for its clarity (it “tells it like it is”), and for its Scriptural proof.  I normally would do “Cliff’s Notes,” but they state the points perfectly enough that I didn’t like to deviate from their statements.  Enjoy. We are warned in the Holy Bible time and time again to not fall for false teaching, the “doctrines of demons.”  But because people don’t read Scripture enough today, they will be seduced now more than ever.  I Timothy 4:1: …the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons Notice also II Peter 2:1: But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there

The earliest of the Apostolic fathers believed that everyone has enough grace to apprehend that Jesus was the Christ and that they needed Him as our Savior. They did not believe that we inherited Adam’s guilt from the time we were born, such as to feel that even babies were damnable—so they did not believe in “Original Sin,” as it was taught by Augustine. The church fathers felt that Adam gave us a tendency to sin; but sin is limited to those who know right and wrong, so it is not necessary that babies had to be baptized to save them from hell if they died as infants—they were sinless.  They believed that whatever guilt we earned, it was because We, in an accountable state

I have, for your comparison, two articles.  The first argues that Halloween was a church tradition before it became an evil corruption.  The author argues that we should celebrate it for its original merits.  The second article says we should not celebrate at the same time as evil is being celebrated.  You choose which argument you like.   Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies — Hallowe’en: A short history Posted on October 24, 2012 by Pastor Joseph Abrahamson There is a lot of new mythology about Halloween that has been invented to claim that Halloween is a pagan holiday from the start. That is not true. Where Did Halloween Start in the Christian Church? In the first three centuries after Christ’s resurrection, the lives of the martyrs of the

Charles Spurgeon was saved at 15, began 38 years of preaching at what became Metropolitan Tabernacle in England at 19, got married at 20—and unfortunately also was early in his death at 57, in 1892. In between, he was called “Prince of Preachers” for his oratorical skills and his ability to lead people to the Lord. At age 22, he was the most popular preacher in London, frequently speaking to crowds as large as 10,000. He also started a charitable organization and a college. He was a Baptist for the most part, but left the denomination in later years “over doctrinal convictions.” Because of his previous denomination, most people would say that he was a Calvinist, but his response to that was intriguing: “I love

John Calvin is classified as a great theologian.  Let’s see what he is, as a theologian and as a man: John Calvin was born in 1509.  He had tremendous influence on the founding and growth of America, yet he never set foot here. In fact, he was a Frenchman, living in Switzerland, and died 43 years before the founding of Jamestown, the first colony established here.  He is considered to be a great theologian, but he went to a famous French university and took courses to be a lawyer.  He never studied religion beyond the basics at the university. While there, he was fascinated with the Greco-Roman philosophy of Stoicism.  Stoicism was the dominant belief system of educated Romans at the peak of their empire,

Well, it’s happened—quicker than I thought. My current sermon mentors have all died—except one. I’ve used their sermons many times in my blogs. Well, I’m 79, so I should have accepted this possibility, but one of my favorites, Voddie Baucham, was only 56 when he died less than a week ago. I do come up with my own material, as evidenced when I give no credit to anybody else; but I find such great material elsewhere that I can’t resist summarizing them instead. I occasionally have used authors of books, but I only have space to summarize their main theme. In honor of Dr. Baucham, I would like to summarize a great sermon of his right now: Why Do You Believe the Bible?. He begins

I used to think “honor killing” had to do with killing a Muslim daughter that committed a dreadful sin, like fornication or pregnancy, outside of marriage.  But an HBO Documentary Film, “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” changed my mind. Please read the HBO analysis for your own enlightenment.   More than 1000 women are murdered in Pakistan each year by male relatives who believe the victims have dishonored their families.  Here is the story of a young Pakistani woman who was the target of one of these honor killings.   It happened three years ago in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. It’s not a backwoods or ignorant area, since five million people live there. The girl, Saba, is 19. She is

Here is a sermon by the late Dr. John MacArthur.  He asks the important question, “what’s wrong with the current presentation of the gospel?”  Here are (mostly) his words. There was recently a survey of ‘evangelicals.’  People were defined as evangelicals if they believed four things: if they believed the divinity of the Bible, if they believed Jesus, believed the gospel, and if they felt they were responsible to communicate the gospel to other people.  Well, it seems that the majority of ‘evangelicals’ really have no idea what they believe.  One survey question, “everyone is born innocent, agree or disagree?” 65% of evangelicals agreed.  Another: “the Bible is not literally true,” agree or disagree?  55% of evangelicals agreed!  “God accepts worship from all religions.”  56%