Be Careful Before You Call Someone Antinomian
Be Careful Before You Call Someone Antinomian
When you start talking this way people want to label you as antinomian, you know saying, "You guys just allow everything." No, that's not it...
Authentic Christianity
Authentic Christianity
Authentic Christianity is a thorn in the side of this popular culture of the world in which we live in. The light of Jesus Christ in you, will have an effect...
Christ The True Vine (Part 1)
Christ The True Vine (Part 1)
We come to Jesus Christ alone, and look to His finished work alone, to be received by faith alone, regarding our right standing. But we don't move on from Jesus to begin to live the Christian life and bear much fruit....
Praising God For Our Adoption
Praising God For Our Adoption
In expressing to you the doctrine of adoption, we realize that somebody can be adopted and not really recognize what that is. Being adopted is one thing, but recognizing you are adopted is...
Appreciating Our Adoption
Appreciating Our Adoption
Many Reformed theologians consider adoption to be the very highest privilege that the Gospel offers. Yet, it seems that the church has historically neglected this doctrine...
God’s Kindness to Crippled Men
God’s Kindness to Crippled Men
Think of it, crippled Mephibosheth, he is probably being brought before David on a cart or carried in by others to the king's chamber.
God’s Unlimited Resources for the Believer’s Holiness
God’s Unlimited Resources for the Believer’s Holiness
How can we pray that with confidence? Because God's unlimited resources are available for the believer's holiness and conformity to Jesus Christ.
Chosen to Stand Before God
Chosen to Stand Before God
Man lost the greatest of all his privileges: beholding the face of God. Man’s sin hid the greatest Treasure of all from us. Man has been put out of...
The God That Chooses
The God That Chooses
Yes, but that also is not going back far enough. We must go back before our world existed...to the God who chooses.
The Vital Importance of Prayer
The Vital Importance of Prayer
Here are six reasons on the vital importance of prayer. 1) Prayer as communion to God, is the goal of the Gospel. 2) Prayer as asking...
Spiritual Blessings
Spiritual Blessings
By nature man is cursed for having transgressed God's laws. The sons of Adam are a cursed race. For God to ever bless anyone who has sinned and broken His...
Worshiping God the Father
Worshiping God the Father
The worship of God in the New Testament always begins with God the Father. We are never right, balanced, or in accord with God's Word if our worship starts...
The Nearness of God is My Good
The Nearness of God is My Good
That's the issue. That's always the issue. The nearness of God is my good. So, if I'm gonna cleanse myself let me put myself there, near to God.
Busyness Leads to God Hiding Himself?
Busyness Leads to God Hiding Himself?
At times when someone asks, "How do I deal with the hiddenness of God?" it is not God hiding Himself from us, but our own sin or busyness and neglect of the Lord that is the problem.
Racism is Opposed to God
Racism is Opposed to God
The division that is created in racism is part of a system that is organized against God. Racism opposes the love of God the Father. Our greatest identity is not our skin color...
Nothing Can Stop The Gospel
Nothing Can Stop The Gospel
Islam will never wipe out Christianity. Why? Because the power of God is in this.
Grace to You and Peace
Grace to You and Peace
When we read, "grace to you and peace from God..." (Eph. 1:2) we don't want to think it's just a salutation. We have to watch out for familiarity to set in...
Believers Are In Christ
Believers Are In Christ
It's very easy to read past the words, "in Christ", as they are all over the New Testament. Yet if we can really get a feel for how prominent this idea...
The Truth Sets You Free from Sexual Lust
The Truth Sets You Free from Sexual Lust
If a believer who fights against sexual lust can but look and realize that resisting temptation here is but for a moment. Yet in a brief vapor...
God’s People Are Saints
God’s People Are Saints
God writes His name on His people, and the name He writes is one that reflects His own righteousness and holiness. Believers are repeatedly called saints.
The Glory of God Displayed in the Gospel
The Glory of God Displayed in the Gospel
The gospel of Jesus Christ displays the glory of God in the fullest sense. Man's wisdom could never come up with what God has done in the gospel.
Are There Two Judgments?
Are There Two Judgments?
It sound like there's a judgment at the very end, and also a judgment immediately after a person's death. Does this mean that there are two judgments?
Reasons to Accept the Differing Christian
Reasons to Accept the Differing Christian
So Romans 14 provides some very helpful guidance in dealing with differences among Christians in the church.
Swimming Where the Cleansing Waters Are (Part 7)
Swimming Where the Cleansing Waters Are (Part 7)
There really are things you can do to be splashing in the water that cleanses and there are things you can do that take you away from there. It is possible by your own actions...
The Law of the Spirit of Life (Part 6)
The Law of the Spirit of Life (Part 6)
Brethren, what sin does, is takes the God given appetites of the body and turns them into deceitful desires. When sin seeks to reign it takes the desires you have and turns them against you...
Tardiness: Is Being Habitually Late Sinful?
Tardiness: Is Being Habitually Late Sinful?
Is habitual tardiness a sin? If so, how should Christians be living their lives in light of this sin being so overlooked and tolerated as normal in our society and even in some of our churches?
The Truth of the Roman Catholic Church
The Truth of the Roman Catholic Church
If I trust in Christ's finished work, in His once and for all sacrifice, and that justifies me in the sight of God; then there is no place for purgatory whatsoever. The Catholic teaching...
I Feel Like I’m Spiritually Dying
I Feel Like I’m Spiritually Dying
We need to be aware of how God presents Himself in Scripture, because sometimes during evangelism the person will describe that "the Lord is not saving me."
Funeral Service for Michael G. Morrow
Funeral Service for Michael G. Morrow
At Mike's funeral service, Rob Pelkey, Michael Durham, Benjamin Morrow, and Paul Washer, remember him and his legacy; and above all, remember the Lord Jesus Christ whom he so loved.
Listen to Jesus, But Not Paul?
Listen to Jesus, But Not Paul?
Sadly many "evangelicals" are uncertain if Christ and Paul are on the same page, and in this message Tim refutes this idea and shows that they clearly are on the same page.
There is Another World – Mike Morrow | 1948 – 2016
There is Another World – Mike Morrow | 1948 – 2016
He was a man of whom the world was not worthy. Today the sickness that he was battling has taken his life. He has departed to be with Christ which is far better.
Soft Americans Have Instant Everything
Soft Americans Have Instant Everything
Everything is instant, we want it now. We're very entertained people. We're a very soft people. Let's just call it what it is.
Evangelism: A Matter of Repentance & Faith
Evangelism: A Matter of Repentance & Faith
"Repent and believe in the gospel." Our evangelism must consist of such a message if we want to win souls to Christ. Jesus said to His disciples that if they would follow Him...
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...
Nosy Christian: Mind Your Own Business
Nosy Christian: Mind Your Own Business
How much are we carnally curious about other people's issues when we haven't even fully dealt with our own, and we aren't fully obeying Christ as to what He's shown us to do.
Is Your Faith Directed Towards Yourself or to Christ?
Is Your Faith Directed Towards Yourself or to Christ?
We are not called to have faith in our faith. There is a different object of faith that the writer of Hebrews is pleading with you here in verse...
Jesus Restores Peter
Jesus Restores Peter
John Chapter 21. I want to speak this morning, the Lord helping me, on "Jesus Restores Peter." Lord help us now. John 21:15-23.
The Motivating Power of Christ’s Love
The Motivating Power of Christ’s Love
It was Christ's love for Paul that controlled his life, his decisions, and it is this love that must motivate us as well.
Missions in Our Own Weakness
Missions in Our Own Weakness
One of the greatest blessings that God can give us is in teaching us that we're not in control. It's His kingdom, and it's His glory.
A Conscience Led by the Word of God Alone
A Conscience Led by the Word of God Alone
Believing in the sufficiency of Scripture not only means that you say all the scripture says, but that you don't say what the scripture doesn't say. Because if God shuts his mouth...