Sermons and Biblical Studies

You know, the Church started out with a Bible, then it got a hymnbook, and for years that was it—a Bible and a hymnbook. The average church now certainly wouldn’t be able to operate on just a hymnbook and the Bible. Now we have to have all kinds of truck. A lot of people couldn’t … Continue reading “CHURCH:
ENTERTAINMENT; CHURCH: PRESENCE OF GOD”

These people who have to have truckloads of gadgets to get their religion going, what will they do when they don’t have anything like that? The truck can’t get where they’re going. I heard a man boast this afternoon on the radio to come to his place because they were going to bring in equipment … Continue reading “CHURCH:
ENTERTAINMENT”

Evangelical Christianity is now tragically below the New Testament standard. Worldliness is an accepted part of our way of life. Our religious mood is social instead of spiritual. We have lost the art of worship. We are not producing saints. Our models are successful businessmen, celebrated athletes and theatrical personalities. We carry on our religious … Continue reading “CHURCH:
CURRENT CONDITION; REVIVAL: NEED FOR; WORLDLINESS”

This is one of the marks of our modern time—that many are guilty of merely “nibbling” at the truth of the Christian gospel. I wonder if you realize that in many ways the preaching of the Word of God is being pulled down to the level of the ignorant and spiritually obtuse; that we must … Continue reading “CHURCH:
CURRENT CONDITION; PREACHING: WATERED DOWN”

Within the circles of evangelical Christianity itself there has arisen in the last few years dangerous and dismaying trends away from true Bible Christianity. A spirit has been introduced which is surely not the Spirit of Christ, methods employed which are wholly carnal, objectives adopted which have not one line of Scripture to support them, … Continue reading “CHURCH:
CURRENT CONDITION; LEADERS: SPIRITUAL NEED”

Why do we build our churches upon human flesh? Why do we set such store by that which the Lord has long ago repudiated, and despise those things which God holds in such high esteem? For we teach men not to die with Christ but to live in the strength of their dying manhood. We … Continue reading “CHURCH:
CURRENT CONDITION; CELEBRITIES”

The … tragedy is that the gospel churches are confused and intimidated by numbers. They accept the belief that there has been change and that Christians must adjust to the change. The word used is adjustment. We must get adjusted, forgetting that the world has always been blessed by the people who were not adjusted. … Continue reading “CHURCH:
CURRENT CONDITION; ADJUSTMENT; CHRISTIANS: IN THE WORLD”

Over the last few years the world has gone on to woo the Church (about like water woos a duck!) and has won her heart and hand in what seems to be a case of true love. The honeymoon is still on and the church is now the pampered bride of the world. And what … Continue reading “CHURCH:
CURRENT CONDITION”

The mission of the church is to declare, to proclaim, to witness. She has been left on earth to be a witness to certain great eternal truths which she received from God and which the world could not possibly know unless she told it. “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19), said … Continue reading “CHURCH:
CULTURAL IMPACT; TRUTH: BOLD PROCLAMATION OF; BOLDNESS”

Show me an individual or a congregation committed to spiritual progress with the Lord, interested in what the Bible teaches about spiritual perfection and victory, and I will show you where there is strong and immediate defiance by the devil! Matthew 16:18; 1 Peter 5:8–9 I Talk Back to the Devil, 4.