Our text is Ps 77:1-6. I call this message, Sort Yourself Out. You must sort yourself out whenever things around you get you down. Asaph shows us, in this text, how to sort ourselves out. Commune with your own heart, Ps 77:6. Talk over and discuss with the...
After we are saved, it is very important that we hear the preaching and teaching of the word of God. There are five specific things we see Paul doing with the word of God among the people to whom he ministered. Like Paul, ministers of the word of God should...
In Ps 23:4, David wrote, “thy rod and thy staff they comfort me”. The rod and the staff are the only two instruments a shepherd carried with him when he was with his flock. The shepherd usually carved his rod out of a sapling tree. He carved the heavier,...
The Work of the Spirit Jn. 7:39 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO I heard a sermon preached at a conference distinguishing the work of the Spirit from our work. The gist of the message is that we need to recognize the Spirit’s responsibilities and our own responsibilities. The Spirit doesn’t do all...
The Benefits of Affliction Ps. 119 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO The Benefits of Affliction are seen in Ps 119. Often in affliction we only see the suffering and trouble. Look for the benefits. Affliction can lead you to salvation through God’s words – Psalm 119:107 – I am afflicted very much:...
When you get saved, Christ is is you. His presence in your life changes things completely. You are literally a new creature in Christ [2 Cor 3:17]. Christ in you: Results in your death – Rom 8:9-11 – specifically Rom 8:10. When you get saved, everything about you should die....
Praying for the Sick 2 Kings 13:14 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO When praying for the sick, keep in mind that God doesn’t always heal sick folks. In 2 Ki 13:14, when Elisha was sick, he died. And unlike Hezekiah, he didn’t weep sore over this outcome, trying to persuade God to...
In the first four chapters of the Gospel of Luke, we see repeated references to the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of John the Baptist and his family and Jesus Christ and his family. When you read these chapters you understand that the Holy Spirit orchestrated everything. ...
In Mic 2:7, the Lord asks, “do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?” Indeed, they do. For us who desire to walk uprightly, God’s words are very good. The key is that you must be walking uprightly. These words are not good to anyone who...
Shortly after news of the coronavirus first broke in the United States, Christians started asking, “Do you think this is a sign of the end times?” And so I preached the message that compared the coronavirus with Biblical pestilences because I didn’t believe that this was a Biblical pestilence. ...
