A Selection of Pastor Bob's Sunday Morning Messages. You can download the messages at the link provided. Or to listen on the embeded player just pass your cursor over the highlighted area for the play/pause buttons to appear. Click play to listen online.
Christ Crucified, Cursed, Now Crowned - A Brief Theology of Trees Why is it that Jesus is fixed upon the cross as the means of His death? Why would His death have been in vain had He died by the sword or by stoning? The answer ties the whole Bible together, from Genesis to Revelation.
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Crucified, Cursed, Now Crowned - A Brief Theology of Trees
Meditations On Human Weakness and the Love of God - Psalm 103. David grapples with the universal experience of human weakness and its debilitating effect on the spiritual life. Yet that weakness became the context in which he discovered anew the incomprehensible riches of God's grace and mercy to his people.
Meditations on Human Weakness and the Love of God, 8-08-10
In the Name of Jesus: Motive or Magic - Colossians 3:17. Paul sums up the totality of the Christian life in the phrase "whatsoever you do, whether in word or in deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus..." Well, that's easy - right? Then again, what does it mean to do something "in Jesus' name"? This message is an exploration of that idea.
In the Name of Jesus - Motive or Magic
Genuine Christian Faith in the Last Days - 1 John 2. A consideration of the influence of the Spirit of the Age, or as the Apostle John calls it, the spirit of Antichrist, upon the Church: what is its influence and how is it to be recognized as encroaching on the Church.
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Genuine Christian Faith in the Last Days
Jesus, Words, and the Challenge of Contemplative Prayer - Luke 11:1-2. Prayer, according to Jesus, is primarily a matter of verbal interaction with God. This is so because speaking - God speaking - is the fundamental element of all reality. This is argued against the back drop of the encroachment of contemplative spirituality that advocates techniques of breathing and body position in prayer.
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Jesus, Words, and the Challenge of Contemplative Prayer
In Motherhood is the Salvation of the World - Exodus 1-2. A Mother's Day message highlighting the place of women in God's plan of redemption. Particular notice is made of their intervention and preservation of the savior of God's people from Egypt - Moses. It was women exercising their God given inclinations to bear and nurture children which were pivotal in God's plan to save the world.
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In Motherhood is the Salvation of the World
Marriage - It's Enemies and Defenders - Romans 1. A consideration of evangelicalism's approach to dealing with the homosexual movement in light of Paul's teaching on homosexuality's cause and cure.
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Marriage - Its Enemies and Defenders
A Living Hope - 1 Peter 1:3. Our multifaceted hope in Christ is the only thing which will sustain us through the rat race of this fallen world.
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Are You Weak Enough For God to Use? - 1Cor. 3 and 2Cor. 12. A consideration of how God loves the weakness of His servants because it provides the perfect backdrop for the display of His glory. Evangelicalism's utter ignorance of this fact is displayed every day by its clamoring after the rich, the powerful, the beautiful of this world as the only hope of accomplishing ministry - to our shame.
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Are You Weak Enough For God to Use
The Weapons of Our Warfare - 2Cor. 10:3-4 A comparison/contrast of how the Church functions in the world compared with other institutions and organization; and an admonition for the Church to repent of its worldliness and utilize the divinely energized weapons of the Word and Spirit.
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