Sermons: Recent Episodes
First Baptist Church: Mt. Carmel, IL
Trials can lead to professing believers wandering from the truth. We must seek to bring them back.
If you have a problem with someone, judging and slandering them, you have a problem with God.
Pursue living with the wisdom that comes from above while avoiding the pitfalls of worldly wisdom.
Acts 2 provides a picture of the Church: a community cut to the heart by the Spirit and devoted to Jesus and His church. Are you in this picture?
story about the rich man and Lazarus He beckons us to reckon with the reality of hell (eternal conscious torment) and our love for the things of this world.
Self-righteousness is worthless. Put all your confidence in the surpassing worth of knowing Jesus Christ.
The inspired greetings to the Roman church reminds us that God sees the invisible church (true believers, justified by faith alone in Christ).
s must express the joy of our union in the Lord and acknowledge one another’s work for the Lord.
The church must hold the rope for missionaries called to go to unreached people groups.
May there be no place left on earth where the gospel cannot be heard. Existing churches must be strengthened and new churches must be started in pioneer places.
We must not draw lines of fellowship where God has not. Welcome into fellowship those whom God has welcomed.
Seeing the risen Lord turns weeping into worship and assures the fearful they are in His family.
s providence in all things encourages us to see opposition as an opportunity for evangelism.
God uses the proclamation of the simple gospel message to change lives and impact communities.
Believers who live wholly for God are committed to community in how they think and in how they use their spiritual gifts.
God’s mercies move us to a life of worship (12:1), but we are not merely passive in the process (12:2).
God gave King Ahaz the sign of Immanuel to confirm that He was with Judah to save them from their enemies.
We rob God when we do not give as He prescribes. Return to God with God-honoring giving.
what is the message to God's people who begin to lose faith and question the justice of God? Be ready. The God of justice is coming.
We must not be faithless in our marriages. A believer's marriage is a picture of God's holiness and faithfulness.
If we do not feel as if God loves us or cares about us, then we will act like we do not love God or care about Him. We will go through the motions.
We must prioritize praying for all people, including our leaders, because of the missional life of the church and the saving desire of God.
We gather to hear God’s Word preached because when we understand God’s Word we will have joy.
God is the source of our joy. Our God is to be worshipped because He is the Mighty Creator and the Merciful Redeemer.
We must see the mystery of Israel’s salvation so that God will be praised and we will not be proud.
We must not become proud or unbelieving. God has one olive tree (one people) made up of Jewish and Gentile branches connected by grace through faith in Christ (the fulfillment of the nourishing root of the promise to the Jewish patriarchs).
Promised possessions produce joy in faithful exiles who wait for the Lord's kingdom to come.
God's people must seek security only in the Lord's kingdom, desiring His kingdom more than their own.
Reprobation, election, predestination, double-predestination, Romans 9:19-24, Romans 9, The Potter and the Clay
As we sing of God’s sovereign grace, we should feel burdened for the lost who do not sing because they do not see the greatness of Christ.
The extent and depth of the pain of present sufferings must be considered if the very extent and depth of the surpassing joy of Heaven is to be anticipated.
Jesus came to earth so that the great fear of being a slave of sin could be replaced, by the Spirit, with the great joy of being a child of God.
You were committing spiritual suicide and on the edge of eternal death, and the Spirit moved you.
Believers are marked by thankfulness to God for deliverance and acknowledging their ongoing conflict with sin.
Believers feel wretched and frustrated because of their ongoing battle with indwelling sin.
What condition is acceptable to God? How can be we be saved from God's wrath? In the gospel, by faith, we receive the righteousness of God.