Victory Baptist Church: Recent Episodes
Aaron Braaten
Heads up or foreshadowing prepares the reader for later events but also builds anticipation. This appears in various ways in narrative passages of the Bible.
Chronological displacement is a technique in which the biblical author arranges events out of order in which they occurred in real time. This is often used to shape the storyline with a thematic or theological focus.
What legacy do we want to leave? How do we want to be remembered? This sermon looks at the testimony of Zacharias and Elizabeth and their legacy of obedience.
Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him… (Psalm 37:7a) The circumstances of life are tying me into a knot. There are all these appointments, news of more cancer and upcoming treatments. How can I find rest in all this? The psalmist tells us two things… First, “rest in the Lord.” The Hebrew word…
But there the majestic One, the Lord, will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams… (Isaiah 33:21a) Thirst for water. One of our basic needs. For me, I can’t drink water right now. It is too liquid for my throat and will go down into my lungs. O for a glass of…
“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” (Romans 15:13) Look around. Most of the people we see suffer from one problem: no hope. These people may have causes and crusades, but they are…
“I wait for the Lord, my soul does wait, And in His word do I hope.” (Psalm 130:5) One of the things I had to do most in the hospital was to wait. Waiting for the nurse, for pain medications, for various tests, for healing, for the morning to come, and finally to go home.…
“My times are in Your hand; Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.” (Psalm 31.15) Someone has summed up this verse in the following way: all my life, with its ‘sundry and manifold changes,’ its joys and sorrows, its hopes and conflicts, are not the sport of…
“O taste and see that the LORD is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!” (Psalm 34:8) For almost three weeks I have not been able to swallow. That changed this morning. I was able to actually swallow my Orgain nutritional shake. Not only was I able to swallow it, I…
Job 13:15 -Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him… I have just recently received a realignment in my relationship with the God who is my Father and Savior. As I am sitting here typing in pain, unable to swallow yet, waiting for the various swellings from my operation to heal, I have…
Hello Pastors and Church Leaders, I’m sure many of you are in the midst of summer activities and programs. Although COVID changed many of our plans over the past year it’s encouraging to see some annual events like missions trips, youth camps, and VBS programs slowly coming back. Our world needs to hear the gospel of Christ…
How strangely sad it is that some, knowing so much, practise so little. I am afraid that some of you know the gospel so well that for this very reason it has lost much of its power with you, for it is as well-known as a thrice-told tale. If you heard it for the first…
Some of the worst of tyrants have delighted to call themselves kings by divine right, emperors by the will of God, monarchs by the grace of God, and the like. It may be so; I doubt not that many of earth’s tyrants require much grace, lest their crimes should bring them to speedy ruin; and…
In Genesis 3.6 we see Eve’s response to the serpent’s temptation, “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for wisdom, she took some and she ate it.” Hebrew (tov). Up until this point, only God had made judgments about whether…
Earnest intercession will be sure to bring love with it. I do not believe you can hate a man for whom you habitually pray. If you dislike any brother Christian, pray for him doubly, not only for his sake, but for your own, that you may be cured of prejudice and saved from all unkind…
I do desire for my fellow Christians and for myself, that more and more the great object of our thoughts, motives and acts may be ‘Jesus only.’ I believe that whenever our religion is most vital, it is most full of Christ. Moreover, when it is most practical, downright and common sense, it always gets…
Spurgeon: The old man Crucified ‘Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him.’ Romans 6:6 Crucifixion was a lingering death. Our old nature has not been put to death by the sword, or stoning, or burning; it has been crucified; this will bring on a sure death in time, but it is slow.…
Even most Christians don’t have a Biblical worldview. So, what’s a Biblical worldview? First, There is God and He is Truth. Second, “There was a Creation – an Act of God.” Third – “There was a Fall where sin entered the world precipitated by the Devil. And last, “There is Redemption – procured by Jesus…
Was Jesus a racist in need of rebuke? Well, before we even examine the text of Mark chapter 7 or the claims of a progressive “pastor” and LGBT activist, consider 2 Corinthians 5:21, “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness…
Stop and consider this for just a moment: for those over the age of 75 in America (known as the Greatest Generation), a mere 1.3% percent would identify themselves as LGBT. Only 1.3% percent—just a tiny fraction. Contrast that with today’s young people where, according to a just-released 2020 Gallup poll, 15.9% percent identify as LGBT.…
Thanks to my son-in-law, our web site is functioning again. So we will be streaming our Sunday service. The link is https://victorybaptistpocono.com/stream-live/