Despite the fact that Jesus paid for our sins on Calvary, sin takes a toll on you.  And we need to consider the toll of sin when we are debating whether or not to commit sin.  Many people never consider this because we live in an age of defiled and...

Many of us make a list of things we need to do in a day or a week.  And then we prioritize the things on the list to make sure we completer our priorities.  Otherwise, we are prone to fill our day with important but not essential things.  And by...

In Ps 27:8 David wrote, “When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek”.   Wouldn’t it be something to see the LORD’s face.  But no one ever has.  We know that “no man hath seen God at anytime”. When the...

When we studied Local Church in Bible College there was an emphasis on the differences between the Local Church and the Body of Christ. Most notably, I remember learning that the Church is an organism and the Local Church is an organization. I have since come to believe that the...

Ps 26:2 says, Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.  We understand why the Lord should try our hearts.  But why would I want the Lord to try my reins? Try My Reins The reins are the kidneys; the region of the kidneys, the loins, or the...

This sermon is about the pattern for church planting that we find in the Bible. The church began in Jerusalem, which you can clearly see in Acts 2:41-47. Following the stoning of Stephen and the havoc of Paul’s persecutions, the saints scattered abroad, Acts 8:1-4.  Many of them ended up...

This sermon is about doing the will of God.  As we follow Jesus, we use remember that he said, I come to do thy will, Heb 10:7, 9.  The will of God was so important to Jesus Christ that he found it even before he was a teenager and went...

In Acts 5:32, Peter and the other apostles said, “we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him”.  Notice “so is also the Holy Ghost”.  The Holy Spirit witnesses.  Look at several other instances where the...

The reason that we may not be getting the thing done that the Lord wants us to do is that we might be slothful.  You’ve seen a sloth before.  It moves so slowly that it appears, most of the time, to not be moving.  Solomon describes the slothful man in...

Some people haven’t received everlasting life as a gift of God from this well of water because: They don’t know the gift of God.  Jn 4:10 “If thou KNEWEST the gift of God”.  They don’t know what the gift is. It’s eternal life, v.14.  It is the answer to sin...