Randy Alcorn talks with Pastor Mark Driscoll.
Randy Alcorn is the author of over 40 books, nonfiction and fiction, and is the founder of Eternal Perspective Ministries.
For more resources visit www.epm.org
Randy Alcorn talking with Pastor Mark Driscoll.
Randy Alcorn is the author of over 40 books, nonfiction and fiction, and is the founder of Eternal Perspective Ministries.
For more resources visit www.epm.org
"Pass on the Baton with Love, Moms & Everyone". Pastor Reiner's message delivered on May 8, 2011 at the Church at Creston - Lutheran. This is the 2nd message in a Series called "Passing on the Baton: How to Leave Behind Your Legacy!" a study of 2nd Timothy.
Anyone's spiritual life can be said to be composed of three elements: wells, bridges, and bunny-rabbits. Some might only have one well. Others might have a few wells and bridges. But those who have a bunny-rabbit don't have much in the way of bridges or wells, and the bunny-rabbit keeps jumping around from place to place so that there's little chance that any will be built. So, what do we mean here? Take a look at the physical objects that are known as bridges, wells, and bunny-rabbits, and you will see what I mean. You'll also see their function and the need for both wells and bridges. You might recognize some of your own. The bunny-rabbit is the perplexing one. For some, it might be a needed phase, especially if someone was cut lose from what they thought was an anchor. But beware the fact that the bunny-rabbit bounces around and might never stop in the same place. And at the same time, it is good to cherish wells and bridges. From these we draw much of our spiritual sustenance. Blessed Be!
"Passing It On: How to Leave Behind Your Legacy" Pastor Reiner's first sermon of a series about leaving a legacy for the next generation. Based on 2 Timothy, Apostle Paul's final words of a dying man who knows his days are numbered. Read the 1st chapter of 2 Timothy.
Pastor Jonathon gives a sermon on the most sought after secret in the Bible. How to pick the correct church. Common sense and Biblical tips on finding the correct church.
Pastor Jonathon gives a sermon about satan's temptations. How it effects us mentally, physically and spiritually. What does the Bible say about drinking alcohol?
As we come to the celebration of Beltaine, the Christians are having their Easter Sunday. The whole point of their faith hangs on the fact of Easter and the fact that their god's son, Yeshua Bar-Joseph, died and rose from the dead. It is an event which, as Pope Benedict XVI describes it, is not in disagreement with science, but is beyond science. And what can a Wiccan learn from the Christians' Easter?
Perhaps quite a bit, especially given that so much of what Christians believe originated with Jesus' story preceded him, often by centruies if not millenia. The Last Supper was in fact a Passover Seder, but other aspects of it call on other traditions. Most Jews would recognize the baptisms done by John The Baptist as being the Mikvah, a ritual bath not unlike what many Wiccans and Pagans do. The prophecy of Simeon in the Temple at Jesus's presentation (when he was nine days old) speaks of a phenomenon which was supposedly not supposed to happen until years later after the resurrection. And "justification by faith" can be found in Genesis in the story of Abram. Hey, even the resurrection wasn't the first one - rememebr the one whom Jesus resurrected?
So, what's the big deal? Well, all of them got packaged into one big "bing-bangitty-boom" with a mighty shock to one and all! And if these things were not new gifts, then they were brought together so that people would pay attention to them and use them. It meant that folks didn't have excuses not to use them anymore!
And that's what a lot of folks on many paths miss - the importance of finding out how much we already have and using it! And maybe, just maybe, this was their god's way of hitting them on the head with a spiritual baseball bat to get them to notice!
Blessed Be!
The first part of this sermon by Pastor Jonathon is about Baptism. The second part of the sermon is about the mark of the beast. Do you know what the mark of the beast is? Watch this video to find out.
Pastor Tim Keller's new book, titled King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus, discusses the life of Christ as told in the Gospel of Mark... The Christian Broadcasting Network CBN http://www.cbn.com
Here, we talk about some folks you and I have known, and (very importantly) how to keep from joining them. I'm talking about the spiritually dead. They may physically continue to exist and have their funerals in their 80's or 90's, but they actually died much younger, perhaps in their teens and twenties. Some are obvious, because they are so busy being who they think that they are supposed to be that they forget who they might actually be.
Others die more quietly, just sort of giving up on their spiritual life.
In either case, they may have been the victims of spiritual suicide. Some commit spiritual suicide voluntarily, such as the people who are so intent on being who others want them to be that they forget to learn who they really are. And then there are the victims of subtlety, whose spiritual suicide is more of a slow and gentle process to the point that it's hard to tell when they actually died. Worse, so many of them do not know that they are dying - or dead.
And of course, there is something positive that might be gleaned from this also. If you know how some people die, it might show you some ways to be more alive.
Blessed Be!
Senior Pastor Russell Hildebrandt delivers a reading of Mark 15:37-39 and then his "The Centurion: Arranging Death, Announcing Life" sermon at Grace Lutheran Church in Arlington, TX on April 10, 2011.
Someone recently accused me of being too political. Excuse me, but we are living in political times, and there are some things we need to know about in order to at least survive, and at best deal successfully with other paths, especially those who would interfere with us and our rights.
And here I reveal one of the biggest secrets waiting for us in plain sight: Their Bible is actually more Pagan-friendly than many (especially Christian fundamenalists) want to know. There is a psalm in which their god speaks to other gods. Actually, there's more than one psalm that mentions there being more than one god, but in this one, the "Most High" speaks to the others!
Of course, we have the statement about sheep which are not of that particular fold, which does not say how many other folds there might be, or where they are. How many paths have people waiting for a god's son to return?
And, there's the matter of the only sin which cannot be forgiven. On that yardstick, you and I are in a lot less trouble than many who might condemn us.
As if to point out something, there's the time that someone entrapped the leaders of the religious establishment in an act of desecration, and he let them off the hook - or did they realize what they had done!
But finally, there is a statement which is probably the first declaration of the separation of church and state, and it's in the Christian's Bible!
These are secrets which are indeed in plain sight, and we will do well to know them and be in a position to speak on them.
Blessed Be!
Pastor Jonathon gives a series of seminars on Bible Prophecy. Will the world end in 2012? Will Europe unite? Are we living in the "End Times"? What do the "last days" have in store for humanity? Who is the "Anti-Christ"?
Future Georgia Bulldog Ray Drew is understandably well-known for his talent on the football field. What many fans don't know is Ray feels just as much at home in the pulpit as he does on the gridiron.
