by Justin Pierce | Dec 16, 2019 | Preaching, Suffering, Theology
WHY? Questions about life and death, pain and suffering strike every person alive, usually more than once in their lives. We all have wondered “Why?” We have asked friends, family, parents, even pastors to help us understand why bad stuff happens. There are a lot of...
by Bud Ahlheim | Dec 15, 2019 | Preaching, Worship
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 “What! Am I to be put into the pulpit and to be told that I am to confine myself to certain truths only, to comfort God’s saints? I will not have it so.” Charles Spurgeon If...
by Bud Ahlheim | Dec 8, 2019 | Christian Living, Featured, Preaching, Sin, Striving for Eternity
What Does Striving for Eternity Mean? by Andrew Rappaport | The Rapp Report https://media.blubrry.com/rappreport/b/content.blubrry.com/rappreport/RAP_0101W-sfe.mp3 Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated...
by Bud Ahlheim | Dec 8, 2019 | Preaching, Worship
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 The great 20th -century expositor Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote, “If you want to be odd in the Christian church today, preach the New Testament gospel.” In the 21st-century, following...
by M. Ashley Evans | Dec 6, 2019 | Conferences, Preaching, Sufficiency of Scripture
On Being a Pastor Beth Moore is a female pastor. She does more than just teach Bible studies to women, she teaches from the pulpit to entire church congregations. Further, she frequently preaches in guest roles in churches across the country. Is this something that is...
by Bud Ahlheim | Dec 1, 2019 | Preaching, Theology, Worship
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 “The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.” The formal cessation of fighting in the First World War came with the armistice signed by the Allies and Germany at...
by M. Ashley Evans | Nov 29, 2019 | Conferences, Preaching, Sufficiency of Scripture
Doctrine Divides – and Rightly So There are some hills worth dying on. Others, not so much. There are some issues in Scripture, primary issues, on which we that we cannot be wrong. Other issues, tertiary issues are things that we can lovingly disagree on and still...
by M. Ashley Evans | Nov 23, 2019 | Conferences, Preaching, Sufficiency of Scripture
Truth Matters Conference The Truth Matters Conference was held from October 16-18th 2019 and was a celebration to honor John MacArthur’s 50th year of pulpit ministry. John MacArthur has been known to speak very candidly regarding theological distinctives and...
by M. Ashley Evans | Nov 19, 2019 | Church, Counseling, Discipleship, Preaching, Sufficiency of Scripture
Churches have too long forsaken their role in counseling. “Let’s leave these complex issues up to the medical professionals” has been said by far too many pastors. “Let’s instruct counselees on how the Bible applies to their situation and walk with them in their...
by Bud Ahlheim | Nov 17, 2019 | Preaching, Worship
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 R.C. Sproul, in one of those always popular, candid Q&A sessions during a Ligonier conference, once made the following comment. “You don’t have to listen to a preacher for very...
by Andrew Rappaport | Nov 8, 2019 | Apologetics, Podcasts, Rapp Report Daily
Rapp Report Daily 0440 I am as Good as Any Christian Maybe you have heard the argument that a professing atheist would make that I am as good as any Christian. In New York City, they actually had an ad on bus signs that said, “good without God”. The...
by Andrew Rappaport | Nov 7, 2019 | Apologetics, Podcasts, Rapp Report Daily
Rapp Report Daily 0439 Does Everyone Have an Opportunity to Repent? Does everybody have an opportunity to repent and put their faith in Jesus Christ? You sometimes hear this argument worded as if someone in a tribal Village in Africa does not know who Jesus is and...