Talk About Jesus Talk about Jesus. Preach the gospel. This is universally the way to reach men and grow the body. But why don’t people do it. Mk 8:34-38 They’re ashamed. You don’t want them to know that you are the Lord’s. Remember, though, that Jesus hung naked on the...
Excuses For Not Serving The Lord Jer 1:6-19 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO The Lord ordained Jeremiah a prophet unto the nations [Jer 1:5]. He called Jeremiah to preach against them and he knew that Jeremiah would try to excuse himself from this call. In this passage, therefore, we can find some...
Facing Death Prov.14:32 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO People have a hard time facing death. Oftentimes, even Christians have a difficult time facing death. So, we want to search the scriptures to find encouragement for this inevitable time in our lives. When you are, or a loved one is, facing death,...
Neither Let It Be Afraid This is a follow up message to our broadcast from yesterday on Let not your heart be troubled. I encourage you to listen to that message online. In that message we discussed how to let not your heart be troubled. Briefly, we said, Pray and...
Preoccupied II Cor. 10:5 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Your mind is preoccupied when a matter or a subject dominates or engrosses your mind to the exclusion of other thoughts. It appears that many young Christians are preoccupied these days. You can run a little two-part self-test to see if you are...
Cheer Up My Brother Acts 27:13-36 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO There’s an old favorite hymn called “Farther Along” and the chorus goes like this, “Farther along we’ll know all about it, farther along we’ll understand why, cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine, we’ll understand it all by and by.” ...
Some emotions lead to sin. Of course, there are all kinds of ways to get into sin. You can be enticed by lust [Jas 1:14] or you can be enticed by others [Prov 1:10]. But sometimes you get into sin as a result of an emotion. Common emotions that often...
Be Not Afraid of their Faces Jer 1:8 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Jer 1:8 says, Be not afraid of their faces. The Lord had a very important job for Jeremiah to do. Jeremiah was called to be a prophet to the nations [Jer 1:5]. He was going to have to stand...
What I Learned From Job In this sermon, Dr Gipp describes what the Lord was doing to the devil when he pointed out Job’s character qualities. And then he preached helpful insights from Job’s experience.
Walk In Victory Over Fear Heb.2:15 CLICKTITLE FOR AUDIO There are four things of which Christians are particularly afraid. Christians fear the loss of their life, their self-esteem or self-worth, their reputation and their dignity. Put another way, Christians fear death, falling, dishonor and derision. As my former pastor used to...
