tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60008371708464350332024-03-13T08:26:43.337-07:00Come Unto HimMatthew 11 28-30
"Come to Me,All who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, AND YOU WILL FIND REST WITH YOUR SOULS.For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-18322996543944343902011-09-30T20:08:00.001-07:002011-09-30T20:08:08.315-07:00What Is the Gospel?
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by R.C. Sproul</h1>
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There is no greater message to be heard than that which we call the
Gospel. But as important as that is, it is often given to massive
distortions or over simplifications. People think they’re preaching the
Gospel to you when they tell you, ‘you can have a purpose to your life’,
or that ‘you can have meaning to your life’, or that ‘you can have a
personal relationship with Jesus.’ All of those things are true, and
they’re all important, but they don’t get to the heart of the Gospel.<br />
The Gospel is called the ‘good news’ because it addresses the most
serious problem that you and I have as human beings, and that problem is
simply this: God is holy and He is just, and I’m not. And at the end of
my life, I’m going to stand before a just and holy God, and I’ll be
judged. And I’ll be judged either on the basis of my own righteousness –
or lack of it – or the righteousness of another. The good news of the
Gospel is that Jesus lived a life of perfect righteousness, of perfect
obedience to God, not for His own well being but for His people. He has
done for me what I couldn’t possibly do for myself. But not only has He
lived that life of perfect obedience, He offered Himself as a perfect
sacrifice to satisfy the justice and the righteousness of God.<br />
The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn’t concerned
to protect His own integrity. He’s a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just
waves a wand of forgiveness over everybody. No. For God to forgive you
is a very costly matter. It cost the sacrifice of His own Son. So
valuable was that sacrifice that God pronounced it valuable by raising
Him from the dead – so that Christ died for us, He was raised for our
justification. So the Gospel is something objective. It is the message
of who Jesus is and what He did. And it also has a subjective
dimension. How are the benefits of Jesus subjectively appropriated to
us? How do I get it? The Bible makes it clear that we are justified not
by our works, not by our efforts, not by our deeds, but by faith – and
by faith alone. The only way you can receive the benefit of Christ’s
life and death is by putting your trust in Him – and in Him alone. You
do that, you’re declared just by God, you’re adopted into His family,
you’re forgiven of all of your sins, and you have begun your pilgrimage
for eternity.<br />
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http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/what-gospel/ <br />
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Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-42158461619557655762010-04-30T07:45:00.001-07:002010-04-30T07:45:55.941-07:00<!--Begin SermonAudio Link Button--><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.sermonaudio.com/code_sourcefeatured.asp?reversecolor=FALSE&showoverview=FALSE&flashplayer=TRUE&tiny=FALSE&minimal=FALSE&eventtype=EVENTID&sermonid=31810183555"></SCRIPT><!--End SermonAudio Link Button-->Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-88068357107300397102010-04-30T07:17:00.001-07:002010-04-30T07:17:58.045-07:00The Seeker-Friendly Way of Doing ChurchMcMahon, T.A. <br />March 1, 2004 <br />The “seeker-friendly,” or “seeker-sensitive,” movement currently taking a host of evangelical churches by storm is an approach to evangelizing through application of the latest marketing techniques. Typically, it begins with a survey of the lost (referred to by a leading church in this trend as the “unchurched,” or “unchurched Harry and Mary”). This survey questions the unchurched about the things their nearby place of worship might offer that would motivate them to attend. Results of the questionnaire indicate areas of potential changes in the church’s operations and services that would be effective in order to attract the unchurched, keep them attending, and win them to Christ. Those who have developed this marketing approach guarantee the growth of the churches that conscientiously follow their proven methods. Practically speaking, it works!<br /><br />Two churches are seen as models for this movement: Willow Creek Community Church (near Chicago), pastored by Bill Hybels, and Saddleback Valley Community Church (south of Los Angeles), pastored by Rick Warren. Their influence is stunning. Willow Creek has formed its own association of churches, with 9,500 members. Last year, 100,000 church lead-ers attended at least one Willow Creek leadership conference. More than 250,000 pastors and church leaders from over 125 countries have attended Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Church seminars. More than 60,000 pastors subscribe to his weekly email newsletter. <br /><br />We visited Willow Creek Community Church not too long ago, and it seems to have spared no expense in its mission to attract the masses. Looking past the swans gliding across a mirror lake, one sees what could be mistaken for a corporate headquarters or a very upscale shopping mall. Just off the sanctuary is a large bookstore and an extensive eating area supplied by a food court with five different vendors. A jumbotron screen allows an overflow crowd or those enjoying a meal to view the proceedings in the main sanctuary. The sanctuary itself is spacious and high tech, complete with three large screens and state-of-the-art sound and lighting systems for multimedia, drama, and musical presentations. <br /><br />While impressive, Willow Creek is not unique among mega-churches with a reach-the-lost-through-whatever-turns-them-on mindset. Mega-churches across the country have added bowling alleys, NBA regulation basketball courts with bleachers, exercise gyms and spas, locker rooms, auditoriums for concerts and dramatic productions, and Starbucks and McDonald’s franchises—all for the furtherance of the gospel. Or so it is claimed. Although it’s true that such churches are packing them in, that’s not the whole story in evaluating the success of this latest trend in “doing church.”<br /><br />The stated goal of seeker-friendly churches is reaching the lost. Though biblical and praiseworthy, the same cannot be said for the methods used in attempting to achieve that goal. Let’s begin with marketing as a tactic for reaching the lost. Fundamentally, marketing has to do with profiling consumers, ascertaining what their “felt needs” are, and then fashioning one’s product (or its image) to appeal to the targeted customer’s desires. The hoped-for result is that the consumer buys or “buys into” the product. George Barna, whom Christianity Today calls “the church’s guru of growth,” claims that such an approach is essential for the church in our market-driven society. Evangelical church-growth leaders are adamant that the marketing approach can be applied–and they have employed it–without compromising the gospel. Really?<br /><br />First of all, the gospel and, more significantly, the person of Jesus Christ do not fit into any marketing strategy. They are not “products” to be “sold.” They cannot be refashioned or image-adjusted to appeal to the felt needs of our consumer-happy culture. Any attempt to do so compromises to some degree the truth of who Christ is and what He has done for us. For example, if the lost are considered consumers and a basic marketing “commandment” says that the customer must reign supreme, then whatever may be offensive to the lost must be discarded, revamped, or downplayed. Scripture tells us clearly that the message of the Cross is “foolishness to them that are perishing” and that Christ himself is a “rock of offense” (1 Cor 1:18; 1 Pt 2:8). Some seeker-friendly churches, therefore, seek to avoid this “negative aspect” by making the temporal benefits of becoming a Christian their chief selling point. Although that appeals to our gratification-oriented generation, it is neither the gospel nor the goal of a believer’s life in Christ.<br /><br />Secondly, if you want to attract the lost on the basis of what might interest them, for the most part you will be appealing to and accommodating their flesh. Wittingly or unwittingly, that seems to be the standard operating procedure of seeker-friendly churches. They mimic what’s popular in our culture: top-forty and performance-style music, theatrical productions, stimulating multi-media presentations, and thirty-minutes-or-less positive messages. The latter, more often than not, are topical, therapeutic, and centered in self-fulfillment–how the Lord can meet one’s needs and help solve one’s problems.<br /><br />Those concerns may be lost on increasing numbers of evangelical pastors but, ironically, not on some secular observers. In his perceptive book This Little Church Went to Market, Pastor Gary Gilley notes that the professional marketing journal American Demographics recognizes that people are<br /><br />...into spirituality, not religion….Behind this shift is the search for an experiential faith, a religion of the heart, not the head. It’s a religious expression that downplays doctrine and dogma, and revels in direct experience of the divine–whether it’s called the ‘Holy Spirit’ or ‘cosmic consciousness’ or the ‘true self.’ It is practical and personal, more about stress reduction than salvation, more therapeutic than theological. It’s about feeling good, not being good. It’s as much about the body as the soul….Some marketing gurus have begun calling it ‘the experience industry.’” (pp. 20-21)<br /><br />There’s another item that many pastors seem to be missing in their excitement over “growing your church through attracting the lost.” Although numbers seem to rule in this seeker-friendly mania (an amazing 841 churches in this country have reached the “mega” category, with 2,000 to 25,000 weekend attendees), few have realized that the sizeable increase in church attendance is not due to the influx of the unchurched. During the last 70 years, the percentage of this country’s population attending church has been relatively constant at about 43 percent. A spike of 49 percent in 1991 (years prior to today’s initial seeker-sensitive enthusiasm) gradually declined, returning to 42 percent in 2002 (www.barna.org). From where, then, do those mega-churches, which have outfitted themselves to accommodate the unchurched, get their members? Mostly from smaller churches that aren’t interested in or that can’t afford the fleshly attractions. And what of the supposed horde of unchurched Harrys and Marys who have been assembled? They constitute a very small part of mega-church congregations. During his year of researching Willow Creek, G. A. Pritchard, in his book Willow Creek Seeker Services (Baker Book House, 1996), estimated that the targeted unchurched made up only between 10 and 15 percent of the 16,000 or so who attended weekend services!<br /><br />If this percentage is typical among seeker-friendly churches, which likely is the case, a rather disturbing situation has developed. Thousands of churches here and abroad have completely restructured themselves as outreach centers for the unchurched. This, by the way, is not biblical. The church is for the maturing and equipping of the saints, who then go out to reach the lost. Nevertheless, seeker-sensitive churches have turned to entertainment and conveniences in order to attract Harry and Mary and make them feel comfortable in their new church environment. In order to keep them coming back, they have avoided the thorough teaching of Scripture in favor of positive, uplifting messages designed to make them feel good about themselves. As unchurched Harry and Mary continue to attend, they get only a vague hint of biblical truth that might bring conviction of sin and true repentance. Worse yet, they get a psychologized view of themselves that undermines that truth. However, as grievous as that situation is, it doesn’t end there.<br /><br />The vast majority of those who attend seeker-friendly fellowships profess to be believers. Yet most were drawn to those churches by the same worldly allurements that were meant to entice the unchurched, and they continue to attend, being fed the same biblically anemic diet created for the wooing of unbelievers. At best, they receive the skimmed milk of the Word; at worst, pablum contaminated with “profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called” (1 Tim 6:20). Certainly a church can grow numerically on that basis, but not spiritually. Furthermore, there is no opportunity for believers to mature in the faith in such an environment. In defense of seeker-sensitive churches, some have argued that mid-week services are set apart for discipleship and getting into the meat of Scriptures. If that indeed is the case, it’s a rare exception rather than the rule. <br /><br />As we’ve noted, most seeker-friendly churches focus much of their time, energy, and resources on accommodating unchurched Harry and Mary. Consequently, week after week, the entire congregation is subjected to a diluted and leavened message. Then, on Wednesday evening, when a fellowship is usually reduced to quarter or a third of its normal size, would it be reasonable to assume that this remnant is served a nourishing meal featuring the meat of the Word, expositional teaching, and an emphasis on sound doctrine and discipleship? Hardly. We’ve yet to find a seeker-friendly church where that takes place. The spiritual meals offered at mid-week services are usually support group meetings and classes for discerning one’s spiritual gifts or going through the latest psycho-babble-ized “Christian” bestseller such as Wild at Heart rather than the study of the Scriptures.<br /><br />Perhaps the most insidious aspect of the seeker-friendly approach to doing church is an attempt to impress the unchurched by looking to and quoting those regarded as the experts in solving all their mental, emotional, and behavioral problems: psychiatrists and psychologists. Nothing in the history of the church has undermined the truth of the sufficiency of God’s Word for “all things that pertain unto life and godliness” (2 Pt 1:3) more than the introduction of the pseudo-science of psychotherapy. Its thousands of concepts and hundreds of methodologies are unproven, contradictory, unscientific, and thoroughly unbiblical, as we’ve documented in our books and in previous articles. Pritchard observed that at Willow Creek “Hybels not only teaches psychological principles, but often uses the psychological principles as interpretive guides for his exegesis of Scripture....King David had an identity crisis, the apostle Paul encouraged Timothy to do self-analysis, and Peter had a problem with boundary issues. The point is, psychological principles are regularly built into Hybels’ teaching” (p. 156). <br /><br />During my own visit to Willow Creek, Pastor Hybels gave a message that began with Scripture and addressed the problems that result when people lie. However, he mustered his chief support regarding the harmful consequences of lying from psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, the author of The Road Less Traveled (Simon & Schuster, 1978), who declared in that book (pp. 269-70), “God wants us to become Himself (or Herself or Itself)”!<br /><br />Saddleback Community Church like-wise is entrenched in the psychotherapeutic. Although claiming to be Christ-centered rather than psychological, it has one of the largest conglomerations of Alcoholics Anonymous-based 12-Step recovery programs in the country. The church sponsors more than a dozen support groups, such as Adult Children of Chemically Addicted, Codependency, Co-Addicted Women in a Relationship with Sexually Addicted Men, Eating Disorders, and so forth. Each group is normally led by someone “in recovery” from the “addiction,” and the resource materials for understanding the “disorder” include books mostly authored by psychiatrists and psychologists (www.celebraterecovery.com). Although “in denial” about his use of“pop psychology,” much of it permeates Rick Warren’s work, including his seven-million bestseller, The Purpose Driven Life, which is largely about self-fulfillment, promotes Celebrate Recovery, and is sprinkled with psych references such as “Samson was co-dependent” (p. 233).<br /><br />The overriding message from psychologically driven Willow Creek and Saddleback is that the Word of God and the power of the Holy Spirit are insufficient for delivering a person from a habitual sin and for transforming his or her life into one that is fruitful and pleasing to God. Again, what these churches say and do is exported to hundreds of thousands of church leaders around the world.<br /><br />A large part of the evangelical church has developed a pleasure-laden, cruise ship mentality, but it will result in a spiritual Titanic. Seeker-friendly church pastors (and those tempted to climb aboard) need to get on their knees and read the words of Jesus to the church of the Laodiceans (Rev 3:14-21). They were “rich, and increased with goods,” yet failed to recognize that in God’s eyes, they were “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.” Jesus, standing outside their church, where they had unwittingly displaced Him, offers them His counsel, the truth of His Word, which alone will enable them to live their lives for His pleasure. There can be nothing better here on earth, and for all eternity.Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-1471336449542881962010-04-27T20:30:00.001-07:002010-04-27T20:30:50.097-07:00Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4m-uR7RumaA&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4m-uR7RumaA&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-91875681333064288092010-01-27T16:37:00.000-08:002010-01-27T16:38:04.825-08:00Don't let Atheist Get away with this stuff!!<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Anw-5pUFOmA&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Anw-5pUFOmA&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-61640302640137054622009-12-29T18:58:00.000-08:002009-12-29T18:59:31.375-08:00Y2K10<!--Begin SermonAudio Link Button--><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.sermonaudio.com/code_sourcefeatured.asp?reversecolor=FALSE&showoverview=FALSE&flashplayer=TRUE&tiny=FALSE&minimal=FALSE&eventtype=EVENTID&sermonid=1228092148503"></SCRIPT><!--End SermonAudio Link Button--><br /><br /><br /><br />I. Expect Apostasy<br />II. Expect Hostility<br />II. Expect to be Used<br /><br />Apostasy-Falling away from the truth of scripture.It<br />will engulf the earth before Jesus returns.True<br />believers will be safe in His hands.They shall never<br />perish.Be vigilant-study well.<br />The world is not going to become more friendly to<br />christians.<br />Do not modify the church for the world.<br />John 15:20 2 Corinthians 4:7-10Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-77965406646608275942009-12-12T19:25:00.000-08:002009-12-12T19:27:52.969-08:00Sufficiency of Scripture Conference -Free Give AwayFrom Perry<br /><br />Your probably asking yourself what in the world do all three of the above have to do with one another. Let me illuminate you.<br /><br />1.I needed to write this post yesterday<br />2.It's about the NCFIC.org "Sufficiency of Scripture Conference" and I REALLY wish I were there.<br />3.They are selling the audio messages from the conference @ a presale discount until the conference ends (in a few hours) so the "supplies" of discounted audio sets are very limited. Hurry up and you can still get yours for a 22% discount -- FOR A LIMITED TIME!!!<br />But wait there's more! (no really there is )<br /><br />Giveaway----http://inashoe.com/2009/12/ncfic_giveaway/?awesm=fbshare.me_MSu9<br /><br />Due to my high level connections at the NCFIC I have been able to arrange to give away 3 sets of the full conference audio! Now I'm having the giveaway for the sole purpose of helping to spread the word about all the hard word the men over at the NCFIC are doing, specifically the "2009 Sufficiency of Scripture Conference". So if you will help me to spread the word I will enter you in a drawing for one of three audio sets from the 2009 SOS conference.<br /><br />Here is how I'd like you to help.<br /><br />Blog, Facebook, or Twitter links to the NCFIC.org blog and conference audio sale. Then comeback here and leave a comment to let me know where and how you helped get the word out by leaving a comment and a link to your post.<br /><br />Link to any or all of the following<br /><br />Conference Page: http://www.ncfic.org/national-conference<br /><br />NCFIC Blog: http://ncfic.org/conferenceaudiopreorder<br /><br />NCFIC Conference Audio sale page: http://ncfic.org/conferenceaudiopreorder<br /><br />I will leave the giveaway open until Wed the 16th of December.<br /><br />(one last link: NCFIC.org facebook page http://www.facebook.com/NCFIC?ref=ts )<br /><br />UPDATE: Link back to the giveaway for an extra entry in the drawing<br /><br />ShareThis<br /><br />Related posts:<br /><br />1.Pajama School giveaways<br />2.Christian Families at the Crossroads: giveaway<br />3.A fast contest….<br />4.Charlie’s Soap giveaway<br />5.2 quick things of interest<br /><br />Did you enjoy this post? Subscribe so you'll never miss a new post!<br /><br />Filed under: Dad's corner, Huh? Category?, giveaways & dealsMartinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-89372179658641544272009-12-04T06:54:00.001-08:002009-12-04T06:54:42.591-08:00The Lost Gospel-Paul Washer Wales Revival Conference<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wNv4dvAy2RY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wNv4dvAy2RY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-84266270484112569042009-11-28T18:14:00.001-08:002009-11-28T18:14:58.292-08:00Behold, Believe, Be Raised<script src="http://www.desiringgod.org/player.js?height=337&embedCode=hyZnAwMTo3f3HVEj-_Cc0QtJmZWMJXCp&width=600"></script>Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-37273556437143984182009-11-23T12:09:00.001-08:002009-11-23T12:15:04.706-08:00An Article about Tatoos at church-Not Kidding -Leave us speechless!!Tattoos at Mill Creek church pierce skin, soul<br />A Mill Creek church invited its members to be tattooed during Sunday services.<br /><br />By Nick Perry<br /><br />Seattle Times staff reporter<br /><br /><br />ERIKA SCHULTZ / THE SEATTLE TIMES<br /><br />Above: Matt Sawdon covers Erica Armendariz's tattoo with plastic after working on her religious iconography at Sunday's 10:30 a.m. service at the Gold Creek Community Church in Mill Creek. Below left: Armendariz started her tattoo with religious images a year ago. <br /><br /><br />ERIKA SCHULTZ / THE SEATTLE TIMES<br /><br />Erica Armendariz, 24, a hairdresser and member of the church, started her tattoo with religious images about a year ago. She wants to share what she believes in- faith and family- through art. On one arm, there is a guardian angel, a sacred heart, a cross and a ribbon with the words.<br />Related<br /><br />Gallery | Gold Creek Community Church tattoo service <br />See more mapped stories<br />The sight of a woman being tattooed live on the altar accompanied by the sound of a buzzing ink gun provided a startling backdrop to Sunday's evangelical sermon.<br /><br />Your parent's church service this was not. In the drive to stay relevant, the Gold Creek Community Church has been hosting a series called "Permanent Ink" that featured Sunday's live-tattoo finale.<br /><br />The Mill Creek church is not exactly staid — booming 20-minute rock sets launch regular sermons — yet the pastors acknowledge this series was pushing societal norms.<br /><br />"We've said from the start that we are not advocating tattoos — nor discouraging them," said pastor Larry Ehoff.<br /><br />"We think of it as amoral. It's neither immoral nor moral, it's just the choice of a person."<br /><br />Ehoff said the church is telling the same story of Jesus as always, it's just finding different ways to tell it.<br /><br />Sharon Snell was one of several congregants who volunteered to be tattooed Sunday. At the noon service, she got on stage and faced away from about 150 parishioners while tattoo artist Matt Sawdon worked on the image of a police shield on her lower back.<br /><br />It was Snell's third tattoo and represents her husband's work as an Everett police officer. Snell said last month's shooting death of Seattle police Officer Timothy Brenton forced her to confront the fragility of life and the dangers inherent in her husband's job.<br /><br />"Anything can happen at any time," Snell said. "Him being an officer is a big part of my life and of who I am."<br /><br />As Snell's tattoo took shape, pastor Dan Kellogg told the congregation that permanent markings, both good and evil, are mentioned in the Bible. The most famous symbol, he said, is "666," the sign of the devil.<br /><br />But there's also mention in the Bible of markings on Jesus, saying he is the king of kings and lord of lords, Kellogg said.<br /><br />Another congregant who volunteered was Erica Armendariz, who was getting work done on an arm tattoo she calls her "faith sleeve."Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-70538282615851345502009-11-22T15:46:00.000-08:002009-11-22T15:47:00.249-08:00Paul's Favorite Church (1 Thessalonians 1:-5<!--Begin SermonAudio Link Button--><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.sermonaudio.com/code_sourcefeatured.asp?reversecolor=FALSE&showoverview=FALSE&flashplayer=TRUE&tiny=FALSE&minimal=FALSE&eventtype=EVENTID&sermonid=1116092233230"></SCRIPT><!--End SermonAudio Link Button-->Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-30057726315328990672009-11-13T13:09:00.001-08:002009-11-13T13:10:31.624-08:00Revival Watch Live -Paul Washer-<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='http://www.sermonindex.net/revival.js'></SCRIPT>Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-75446226330161761552009-11-13T11:14:00.000-08:002009-11-13T11:16:11.106-08:00Burdened Prayer by Leonard Ravenhill<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m_eqsSAhj-E&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m_eqsSAhj-E&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-71439851436786845982009-11-04T06:02:00.001-08:002009-11-04T06:02:55.943-08:00Cross Centered Life<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Og9GBMWI95A&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Og9GBMWI95A&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-20106256936327317402009-11-04T05:59:00.001-08:002009-11-04T05:59:46.288-08:00He murdered 70 million people<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cIuJvGE0i3U&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cIuJvGE0i3U&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-29452626279215083002009-10-29T15:51:00.001-07:002009-10-29T15:51:50.355-07:00Are you really a Christian?<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oo9uN76LoL0&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oo9uN76LoL0&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-45585466244852161172009-10-20T09:58:00.000-07:002009-10-20T09:59:02.739-07:00Romans 9<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/E8eZwxB7h1A&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/E8eZwxB7h1A&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-17985784797545981532009-10-13T18:30:00.001-07:002009-10-13T18:30:20.070-07:00From Mugging to Salvation<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UFmuXFhULBU&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UFmuXFhULBU&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-58667170014292983782009-10-07T16:52:00.000-07:002009-10-07T16:53:07.322-07:00Give your Children a God-fearing Eduacation-Paul Washer<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/o-kFFapO_3c&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/o-kFFapO_3c&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-67261465076691337412009-10-06T21:06:00.000-07:002009-10-06T21:07:29.539-07:00A Remnant True to God-Zac Poonen<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oo_84Y7PZpo&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oo_84Y7PZpo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-76122430525202517852009-10-05T18:29:00.000-07:002009-10-05T18:30:01.027-07:00This is War-Paul Washer<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JVeXy7mPL0M&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JVeXy7mPL0M&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-31652260634498315632009-10-02T15:20:00.001-07:002009-10-02T15:20:21.297-07:00Stand Firm -Paul Tripp<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XyS3N1CZVIE&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XyS3N1CZVIE&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-47574689395741996822009-09-28T10:21:00.000-07:002009-09-28T10:22:09.782-07:00Repentence Everyday<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6jSEmXKgMcQ&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6jSEmXKgMcQ&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000837170846435033.post-2920676652641361712009-09-24T11:35:00.000-07:002009-09-24T11:37:24.309-07:00Does God Exist?-Awesome Video<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" 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W. Tozer <br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ; and because within his circle of friends there are so few who share his inner experiences he is forced to walk alone. <br /><br />The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way.<br /><br />The man [or woman] who has passed on into the divine Presence in actual inner experience will not find many who understand him. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this he earns the reputation of being dull and over-serious, so he is avoided and the gulf between him and society widens. <br /><br />He searches for friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none he, like Mary of old, keeps these things in his heart. <br /><br />It is this very loneliness that throws him back upon God. His inability to find human companionship drives him to seek in God what he can find nowhere else."Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05803447991114857024noreply@blogger.com0