By Scripture

On Easter Sunday, John Calvin refused community leaders communion because of mistresses. They responded by rushing the communion table. He responded: “Over my dead body.” They backed off but in the afternoon they exiled him. One year and a half years later they asked him back. When he ascended to the pulpit he began on the very next verse he had ended with when he was kicked out. He loved and trusted God’s Word. We are a...

GOD-GLORIFYING MARRIAGES: A BIBLICAL PLAN TO GLORIFY GOD BY FINDING JOY IN OUR MARRIAGES Ruth Graham was once asked is she had every thought about divorcing Billy. She responded, “Divorce no. Murder, yes.” “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but...

 THE EXCELLENCY OF GOD’S WORD “I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your Word.” Ps 119:16  “Would it not be an encouragement to a subject, to hear his prince say to him, “You will honor and please me very much, if you will go to yonder mine of gold, and dig as much gold for yourself as you can carry away?” So for God to say, “Go to the ordinances, get...

The Authority of God’s BOOK 2 Timothy 3:16-17, All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work . “We owe to Scripture the same reverence as we owe God, since it has as its only source in him and has nothing of human origin mixed with it.” –John Calvin OUR PURPOSE: God’s speaks in creation, in history, in miracles, in...

THE CENTRALITY OF CHRIST AND THE WORD John 5:39-40, “You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” “We were made to know and treasure the glory of God above all things; and when we trade that treasure for images, everything is disordered. The sun of...

 The Sufficiency of God’s Word: Part Two  “I hate and abhor falsehood but I love your law. Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous laws. Great peace have they who love your law and nothing can make them stumble.” Ps 119:163-165 “On the far side of every risk-even if it results in death-the love of God triumphs. This is the faith that frees us to risk for...

The Sufficiency of God’s Word  “Jesus replied, ‘Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?’” Mark 12:24 “In the beginning of this century the battle was over the inerrancy of the Scriptures. Today it is over the sufficiency of the Scriptures.” – Dr. James Boice Our Purpose: God’s Word is sufficient. God speaks and accomplishes...

Give Me That Book #3The Center That Holds us Together We are living in a day when those who are best, those who have good intentions, lack conviction. In other words they put up with evil. They don’t participate but neither do they stand up in protest. They simply escape to their cabins along a mountain stream to avoid all of the chaos and confusion. They simply do not care enough or are not sure enough to stand up against the...

God Declares His Glory! [Part One] Psalm 19 We are presently in a series in which I hope to produce a book and a seminar called, “Give Me That Book!” My purpose is both simple and selfish. I want to see and enjoy more of the glory of God. I believe that God wants me to see his glory and enjoy his glory. And because I believe that the place that His glory is most powerfully, and personally and practically revealed...

The Happy Man and God’s Law: Psalm 1 Bill Bright was the founder of Campus Crusade. He was one of the most influential Christians leaders of the 20th century. He was saved in 1941 through the prayers of his mother. He attended Princeton and Fuller seminaries. It was while he was at Fuller Seminary that he felt the call of God to help fulfill the great commission to go into the world and preach the gospel. He began to witness on...