Showing posts with label Gospel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gospel. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

The Universal Gospel Call

The Universal Gospel Call, by Rev. Cornelis (Neil) Pronk

The text for this sermon is Isaiah 45:22:

"Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else."

Here is a second sermon by Rev. Pronk:

Believer's Eternal Security Challenged and Defended

The text for this sermon is Romans 8:31-39:

"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
 (Scriptures copied from https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org)

Saturday, September 20, 2014

What Is The Gospel?

The Apostle Paul summarized the Gospel in 1 Corinthians 15:3,4:

"For I delivered unto you first of all, that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures."

That is the Gospel in a nutshell. Of course, there is a sense that the Gospel includes everything in the Bible, from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21. The whole Bible is about our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Gospel centers upon him. One of the 17th century Puritans put it this way:

"To accept Christ's righteousness, his blood alone for salvation, is the sum of the gospel." Thomas Wilcox (1621 - 1687)

Recommended Gospel sermons:

Compel Them to Come In, by Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon
When Government Tries To Be God, by Dr. David P. Murray
The Gospel According to the Risen Christ, by Rev. Cornelis Pronk

Recommended Gospel reading:

 Faith Alone: The Evangelical Doctrine of Justification? by R. C. Sproul
The Romans Road to Salvation - my post

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Give Me That Old Time Religeon!

"Somewhere, like in Texas, there were preachers who preached it all, from Genesis to Revelation, without blinking an eye. I took great comfort in knowing that, even while I preached a pitiful, compromised, peeled-down gospel, that somewhere good old Bible believing preachers were offering their congregations the unadulterated Word, straight up!" (Source unknown)

Pastor Charles Spurgeon (1834 - 1892) said:

"That old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach today, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again." (from Iain Murray's The Forgotten Spurgeon)

And someone once said:

"It can be exhilarating to belong to a church that is 500 years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying to belong to a church that is 5 minutes behind the times and huffing and puffing to catch up!"

If you are tired of hearing a "pitiful, compromised, peeled-down gospel," and want to hear the "unadulterated Word, straight up," check out these great sermons:

Recommended reading (my posts):

The best of The Daily Spurgeon
Christianity Declining


Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Vice President Gives 'Commandment' to "Pastors, Rabbis & Nuns"

Biden Wants Pastors, Ribbis and Nuns to Tell their Flock: Enacting Gun Control Laws is the Moral Thing to Do - The Blaze

"Biden met for two-and-a-half hours Monday with more than a dozen leaders from various faith communities – Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh, to name a few. Both Biden and the faith leaders encouraged each other not to give up on what has been an arduous and thus far fruitless effort by Biden and President Barack Obama to pass new gun laws in the wake of December’s schoolhouse shooting in Connecticut."

Pastors, Rabbis and Nuns would do well to disregard Biden's 'Advice,' and rather listen to Dr. David Murray Preach on Acts 4:19 & 20: "But Peter and John answered them and said, 'Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you, judge ye. For we cannot but speak that which we have seen and heard."

When Government Tries to Be God, by Dr. David Murray

Sunday, May 5, 2013

The Problem of Indwelling Sin

Someone once said - and I think it is a true statement - that there are only 2 kinds of people in the world. There are people who need to know our Lord Jesus. And there are people who need to know our Lord Jesus better.

If you fall into the first category, let me encourage you to listen to the following sermon by Dr. David P. Murray:


If you fall into the second category, then why don't you check out this sermon by Daniel Chamberlin


Recommended reading (my post):

Friday, April 5, 2013

Military Warned that Evangelicals are the Number 1 Threat to America

Military Warned that Evangelicals are the Number 1 Threat to America  - WND News

Excerpt:

"Soldiers in the U.S. military have been told in a training briefing that evangelical Christians are the No. 1 extremist threat to America – ahead of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, KKK, Nation of Islam, al-Qaida, Hamas and others."

What is an Evangelical? There are 2 related definitions that I like for the word Evangelical. The first is simply a person who believe the Bible - and only the Bible - is the infallible, inspired and inerrant Word of God.  These are people that not only believe the miracles in the Bible like Jesus rising from the dead and Jonah spending 3 days inside a 'great fish,' but also take seriously the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus admonition to his followers to be "wise as serpents and harmless as doves."

The second definition of Evangelical is a person who believes the Evangel, or the gospel. For more information on what the gospel is, please take the time to listen to the following sermon by Dr. David Murray:

The Most Important Q & A

Recommended reading:

Faith Alone: The Evangelical Doctrine of Justification,  by R.C. Sproul

Friday, March 29, 2013

Remembering "The Cross and the Switchblade"

Scorsese Developing 'Gangs of New York' TV Series - Associate Press

I've never seen the move, 'Gangs of New York,' and I don't plan on watching the TV series based on this movie. But I have seen the movie 'The Cross and the Switchblade.' In fact, I've seen it many times. I used to play this movie over and over again when I worked as a chapel janitor in prison. And I wholeheartedly recommend this movie to everyone - but especially to young people who are involved in gangs.

The world is coming apart at the seams. America if facing economic disaster, wars on several fronts - including a civil war (see my posts, A Civil War is Brewing in America: Now 340 Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce Gun Control Laws, and White House to Sheriffs: Follow Law in Enforcing Gun Control Measures).

If you are young and invovled in a gang, before you lay down your life for your gang,  please watch this powerful movie:

The Cross and the Switchblade

And after you watch that movie, if you want more information on what life is really about, please listen to Dr. David Murray's sermon:

The Most Important Question and answer (or What Must I Do to Be Saved?)

Thursday, December 27, 2012

How I Found Christ?

 How I Found Christ? by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)