Sermons

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Sermon of the week: “The Believer’s Frustration and Discovery” by Brian Borgman.

Your sermon of the week is: The Believer’s Frustration and Discovery by Brian Borgman of Grace Community Church. It is a timely message for those struggling with sin as the Apostle Paul spoke about in Romans 7. Pastor Borgman provides comfort and assurance to the believer who is wrestling with sin, whereas he extends a warning to those who have no compulsion to resist (nor are even cognizant of) their sin, and that it’s perhaps because they’re not born again. Overall, this is a very good message.

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Sermon of the week: “God’s Wrath: Vengeance is Mine, I Will Repay” by John Piper.

piper-pic.jpg Your sermon of the week is a fantastic message by John Piper entitled God’s Wrath: Vengeance is Mine, I Will Repay. This message is a must-hear for Jehovah’s Witnesses and others who deny Hell’s existence. It is also for those who limit the reality of Hell’s punishment, intensity, eternality, severity, etc.

This sermon destroys the “no-such-place-as-Hell” lie being espoused by so many false teachers today.

This sermon will lead you to a better understanding of the holiness, wrath, and fear of God. This message will not sit well with those who believe that God’s love means no wrath, but it will be a refreshing teaching for those who really want to know more of God’s holy and righteous nature, and to understand better God’s judgment, wrath, and the inevitable destination of those who reject Jesus Christ.

You can download the sermon for yourself, watch the video, or read the transcript here. You can also listen to part two of this message found on this post.

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Sermon of the week: “America’s Greatest Need” by Russ Sukhia.

sukhia.jpg Your sermon of the week is America’s Greatest Need by Russ Sukhia.

“As we celebrate our country’s birthday, many Americans, as grateful as we are to live in this land of freedom and opportunity, are aware that in some critical areas, America seems to have lost her way. In fact, Christians can see some striking parallels between modern America and Israel and Judah before they were taken captive centuries ago. Perhaps no passage of Scripture speaks to our nation more directly than Jeremiah 2.
It is a powerful warning of impending judgement, and a call to national repentance.”

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Sermon: “Are signs and wonders for today?” by John Piper.

piper-pic.jpg I interrupt your previously scheduled Saturday sermon series, Studies in Ephesians, to bring you the following thought-provoking and brutally honest sermon by John Piper.

There’s been a lot of scuttlebutt lately regarding all the hoopla going on with Todd Bentley’s circus show in Lakeland, Florida. This has brought up some serious questions about whether or not signs and wonders are for today. Well this message by John Piper (from the early 1990’s but rebroadcast now) is very timely and I recommend it to all those who want a serious look into the matter.

Are Signs and Wonders for Today – Part One (Sermon starts approximately 5 minutes in)

Are Signs and Wonders for Today – Part Two

Now in case anyone’s wondering, I personally don’t ascribe to the complete and utter cessation of all signs and wonders, and I base this solely on the fact that God can use any sign, wonder or healing at His will. He’s God.

I do not, however, believe what we are seeing from Bentley (or any of those other charlatans on TBN) is genuine. Some of the most godly people I’ve ever known don’t speak in tongues, heal the sick, etc. Yet when I was in the charismatic circles back in the 1990’s, every Tom, Dick, and Harry (and every Julie, Sally, and Sue) had some “gift” or were prophesied to one day possess some gift. Even though so many of their lives in no way reflected true, regenerated followers of Jesus Christ and Biblical Christianity, I was still supposed to believe that God was pouring out His anointing on them. Oh what foolishness I embraced. I am so grateful that gone are the days of “activations” and coaching someone to speak in tongues. “Repeat after me . . .”.

And by the way, I’m still waiting for my “healing ministry” that my former (and recently divorced) female pastor (who now heads the church without her husband) prophesied that I would have. It’s only been a decade and a half and she’s still giving out prophetic words like candy and the sheeple still keep eating it up.

But I digress. When a gift happens, it will just happen. It’s not something anyone can conjure up, force, or make happen (as if God’s our puppet and we’re some pagan witch doctor barking out our orders to the Almighty that He must obey).

And when it happens there won’t be big healing revivals or conventions. That’s not the way it was done by the Apostles and that’s not the way God would do it today. To borrow a favorite verse from Charismatics–no, not “touch not my anointed;” their other favorite verse–“God is the same today, yesterday and forever.” If the Apostles didn’t batter people or market themselves as “healing prophets” (and thus draw attention away from the Savior) then those who God chooses today to heal through will also be humble, not market themselves, and not expect God to act upon their every demand.

So in a nut shell, I believe that God can perform any miracle through anyone He chooses, I just have yet to meet someone who has performed a genuine and legitimate sign or wonder. And every time someone claims to be anointed with these gifts, I do the following:

1) Test the spirit.

2) Watch to see who is really getting the glory.

3) Examine their lives.

This is a very effective way to tell a genuine from a counterfeit and to keep from being deceived and led astray.

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Sermon of the week: “How to Witness to the Lost, the Biblical Way” by Paul Washer.

This new message from Paul Washer is–in my opinion–one of his top five sermons (if not in the top three). What he preached to the church youth in his famous “Shocking Sermon” (audio here, video here) regarding false conversion, he now delivers to the preachers, teachers, and pastors who are creating all those false converts. If you only listen to one sermon this week, or month, make it How to Witness to the Lost, the Biblical Way, then pass this on to someone who is making false converts; it is a message that must be heard.

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Sermon of the Week: “Hated by the World?” by Russ Sukhia.

Russ Sukhia delivers another convicting sermon entitled: Hated by the World? Here’s a brief description of this message:

‘I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.’ ‘Excuse me, did I hear you say something about Christians being hated by the world? I don’t remember reading that in your promotional literature. I remember the part about the joys of heaven and sins forgiven, love, joy, peace, etc. But I don’t recall anyone telling me I would be hated by the world?’ What did Jesus mean by ‘the world’ (kosmos)?What was there about Jesus that the world could hate? What is there about Christians that the world can hate? Jesus was hated because He rebuked the world for sin, because He was different from others, and because of the exclusiveness of His claims. With references to modern persecution, this message points out how Christians are hated for the same reasons.

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Happy Father’s Day.

Here’s a three-minute message from John Piper for fathers: Short Message to Fathers.

I also highly recommend the following sermon entitled Fatherhood by John Piper as well. He encourages Christian fathers to be what God has directed they be in the life of their child as the Scriptures instruct. Piper also uses powerful illustrations from his own life to drive his points home.

conwaypic.jpg I also highly recommend The Ungodly Practice of Dating by Tim Conway. This sermon is a stern reminder to dads that they are responsible for their children’s purity. This is an especially important sermon for those who have daughters.

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How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? . . . How many times have I heard evangelists say, “It’ll only take five minutes.“? No my dear friend, it will take your life–all of it! “We’re just trying to attract people and then we’ll gradually bring them in further and further.” That is what the cults do, that’s not what Jesus did. Notice that in the gospels every time a great crowd is following Jesus, he turns around and says something so radical to them that most of them walk away. Of course Jesus probably would not get invited to teach evangelism [in most churches today].

– Paul Washer