Oh, No! Not Leviticus! A sermon by Coty Pinckney, Community Bible Church, Williamstown, MA, 4/26/98 What is your favorite book of the Bible? One of the gospels, perhaps Mark or John? Or the tale of the rapid spread of the early church told in Acts? Those who delight in a logical presentation of … More Oh, No! Not Leviticus!
John Piper, in a sermon, “I Will Build My Church–From All Peoples” said: In Matthew 16:15 Jesus asks his disciples, “Who do you say that I am?” Peter answers in verse 16, “You are the Christ [the Messiah], the Son of the living God.” To this Jesus says in verse 17-18, “Blessed are you, Simon … More Who is THE church builder?
Lessons from Leaven: A Message from Moishe God uses everyday items, the familiar and mundane, to teach many truths. Throughout the Old Testament we see how He gave the Hebrews symbols and metaphors to make something small mean much. For example, leaven or hometz was forbidden from most sacrifices, and it was explicitly forbidden at Passover time. … More Lessons from Leaven…Moishe Rosen
John Piper, in a sermon, “Battling the Unbelief of Envy”: This is a great Psalm for talking about how to fight envy because it starts off with the main point of “Don’t be envious.” Then I count six solid reasons for why not to be envious in the first 11 verses. What I’m trying to … More Using Psalm 37 to Battle the Unbelief of Envy
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep…. Psalm 36:6 Charles H. Spurgeon, in The Treasury of David, comments: Thy judgments are a great deep. God’s dealings with men are not to be fathomed by every boaster who demands to see a why for every wherefore. The Lord is … More Like the great deep
The Giving and Taking of Advice (Acts 21:1-40) By: Bob Deffinbaugh , Th.M. (Bio) Advice can be a wonderful thing … or a disaster. I remember once advising my sister, as she was making ginger snaps. I told her that she should sift the flour and the molasses together into the bowl. I’m sure that a … More Acts (21) and Advice (the good and the bad)
Dr. John Piper on Matthew 15:8-9- “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’” Our problem…..is that we do not realize that there is no genuine worship where feelings for God are not quickened. There is not true … More NO true worship where the heart is far from God
Are these prayers/Psalms really examples for us to follow? Or are they expressions of our sinful desires for vengeance? C. S. Lewis struggled greatly with psalms like Psalm 35: “The hatred is there – festering, gloating, undisguised – and also we should be wicked if we in any way condoned or approved it, … More David’s Imprecatory Outbursts….”Get ’em, God!”
Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. Exodus 33:18-19 John Piper, in a sermon titled, … More God’s Glory, God’s Name and God’s Sovereign Freedom
But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. Acts 20:24 John Piper comments on Acts 20:24 in a sermon, “A Cause to … More What Paul Was Living For: Four Immense Realities
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