THE CHALLENGES OF DISBELIEF

Preached November 8, 2009 from Matthew 28:11-15 Theme: This passage reminds us that our obedience to the Great Commission will be accompanied by the active challenges of disbelief. We’re drawing near the end of our study of the Gospel of Matthew. Shortly, we’ll come to the Great Commission of the resurrected Lord to His church—that is that, in light of all we have been told...
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THE MOURNING FOR THE CITY

AM Bible Study Group; October 28, 2009 Revelation 18:9-20 me: This passage describes the mourning that will characterize the unbelieving world at the destruction of the great ‘harlot’ city Babylon.. Our passage continues the Bible’s astonishing look at the destruction of the future city Babylon—the center-point of the philosophical, materialistic, political and religious...
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"HAVING BEEN BORN AGAIN"

Preached November 1, 2009 from 1 Peter 1:22-25 Theme: This passage helps us to appreciate the necessity of being ‘born again’ in Christ. Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God...
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OPPRESSION 'UNDER THE SUN'

PM Home Bible Study Group; October 28, 2009 Ecclesiastes 4.1-12 Theme: Without the hope of the justice of God beyond life “under the sun”, man neither dies nor lives better than the beasts of the earth. Solomon continues his look at the pointlessness of life “under the sun”—that is, when the reality of God’s ultimate work of bringing about justice is removed...
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"BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN"

AM Bible Study Group; October 28, 2009 Revelation 18:1-8 Theme: In this passage, we’re given the reason for the judgment of God falling upon the great harlot city Babylon. Chapter 18 is a continuation of the theme first introduced to us in Revelation 16:19, and more fully developed in the 17th chapter–the ‘remembering’ of the great city Babylon by God in judgment. In...
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