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Hell is Necessary
Hell is Necessary
Four points: 1. The Security of the World (The lost don't think they are going to hell) 2. The Severity of Hell (How it is described) 3. The Suitability of Hell (The lost deserve to go there) 4. The Sanctity (Holiness) of Hell (Not that hell sanctifies, but hell reveals God's absolute holiness) Tim Conway is pastor of Grace Community Church in San Antonio, TX: www.gccsatx.com
Hindered by Procrastination
Hindered by Procrastination
That work that Jesus is talking about is the business of saving souls, it's often hindered by procrastination.
Holiness to Completion in the Fear of God (Part 5)
Holiness to Completion in the Fear of God (Part 5)
Are there really two different types of fear? If so, how do they differ from each other? And if they are different, which fear is Paul referring to in such verses as...
Holy Spirit: Your Best Friend to Kill Sexual Sin
Holy Spirit: Your Best Friend to Kill Sexual Sin
The Holy Spirit must be the believer's best friend in the battle to kill sexual sin. You cannot have victory against sin unless it is victory...
Holy War: Is God Guilty of Genocide?
Holy War: Is God Guilty of Genocide?
In the book of Joshua, the Israelites were commanded by God to utterly destroy the inhabitants of the land which God gave His people to possess. These passages have often led people to accuse God of the same kind of genocide committed by men like Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot. But is this a fair comparison?
Homiletics: Asking Questions of the Text (Part 4)
Homiletics: Asking Questions of the Text (Part 4)
When studying the Bible for sermon preparation you must ask questions of the text. Then when preaching bring some of those same questions up to the listener.
Homiletics: Called to Preach (Part 2)
Homiletics: Called to Preach (Part 2)
The Lord designs some to specifically have a special calling to preach that is above and beyond the norm. It is God alone who knows how to create a preacher.
Homiletics: Eisegesis Is Not a Light Matter (Part 5)
Homiletics: Eisegesis Is Not a Light Matter (Part 5)
When the preacher's sermon preparation leads him to commit eisegesis and he reads his own idea and meaning into the text, it is not a light matter.
Homiletics: Not Many Preachers (Part 1)
Homiletics: Not Many Preachers (Part 1)
When studying homiletics, the art of sermon preparation and delivery, we must start with James 3:1 and consider how the Bible says...
Homiletics: Rightly Handling Scripture (Part 3c)
Homiletics: Rightly Handling Scripture (Part 3c)
When it comes to rightly handling the Scriptures we want to seek for perfection. The preacher's goal is to articulate the truth of God exactly as it is and to not make clumsy statements.
Homiletics: The Preacher’s Holiness (Part 3a)
Homiletics: The Preacher’s Holiness (Part 3a)
When it comes to a study on sermon preparation we must not neglect the topic of the preacher's holiness. If there is unholiness in the preacher's life...
Homiletics: The Preacher’s Prayer Life (Part 3b)
Homiletics: The Preacher’s Prayer Life (Part 3b)
Those who are not disciplined and do not give priority to prayer in their life should not be preaching. Their prayerlessness is a statement that they have not yet grasped...
Honor the Lord With Your Wealth
Honor the Lord With Your Wealth
Wisdom is applying knowledge in a way that honors the Lord. Giving your wealth to honor the Lord is the highest motive of how we can use our money. Is your giving honor driven? That is wisdom.
Hopeful or Hopeless
Hopeful or Hopeless
Our great and only hope is Christ. Is your hope in Christ?
Hosting A Self-Pity Party? God Doesn’t Care For You?
Hosting A Self-Pity Party? God Doesn’t Care For You?
As Christians there are many so-called "respectable sins" that we battle against, one of which is self-pity. In this video we will consider what self-pity...
How A Just God Justifies The Unjust
How A Just God Justifies The Unjust
How can God justly justify the unjust? The justice of God was indeed satisfied by the substitutionary death of Christ. How can I know this blessing of justification? I am called to...
How Alive is Alive? The Four-Fold Risenness of the Christian (Part 1)
How Alive is Alive? The Four-Fold Risenness of the Christian (Part 1)
The Bible teaches us that it is God who makes Christians. Paul says in Ephesians that God has made us alive together with Christ. God makes people into...
How Are We Created in the Image of God?
How Are We Created in the Image of God?
The Bible says that in the beginning that God made us in His image. What does it mean to be made in the image of God?
How can a Person Know they are Saved?
How can a Person Know they are Saved?
Are you truly born-again and saved? Or is it tradition, is your faith in the great love you have for Christ now, or some work or prayer you said when you were a child?
How Can I Forgive Someone Who Wronged Me?
How Can I Forgive Someone Who Wronged Me?
Question: Christ tells us to love one another as he loved us. How can we love people like that if they hurt us, how do we bring ourselves to forgive people that do us so badly? When every time you see that person, it just hurts inside of you.
How Can I Lust and Sin Against God?
How Can I Lust and Sin Against God?
Christian, the next time you're severely tempted and enticed to yield to sexual sin, just remember that your sin is against God. Just remember that...
How Can We Pray in the Spirit?
How Can We Pray in the Spirit?
The Bible tells us to pray in the Spirit. What does that mean and how can we do that?
How Can You Love Others If You Can’t Love Your Wife?
How Can You Love Others If You Can’t Love Your Wife?
Ephesians 5:25 - Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. 1 John 4:20 - If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
How Christians Save Christians
How Christians Save Christians
Hebrews 3:13 - But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
How Dead is Dead? The Five-Fold Fallenness of Man (Part 1)
How Dead is Dead? The Five-Fold Fallenness of Man (Part 1)
When we were lost, we were dead in trespasses and sins. It wasn't that we transgressed against God every once in awhile. All we ever did was sin and trespass...
How Deep The Father’s Love For Us (Bonfire at FC2017)
How Deep The Father’s Love For Us (Bonfire at FC2017)
This is a brief clip of singing and fellowship from the bonfire that is held on Friday night during the Fellowship Conference.
How Did King David Begin His Day?
How Did King David Begin His Day?
How did King David begin his day? If so we can peer in and see how he often did then could we not glean something about how to imitate this man of God?
How Do I Discern God’s Will?
How Do I Discern God’s Will?
Are you getting counsel from those who you know will agree with you? Or from those who will tell you the truth, even if it goes against what you truly want?
How Do I Experience Fellowship With God?
How Do I Experience Fellowship With God?
How does a Christian experience fellowship and communion with God?