Sermons and Biblical Studies

The Fathers are primarily to be considered as witnesses, not as authorities. John Henry Newman

The title, Mother, underlines how essential it is to know about the visible church. There is no other way of entering into life unless we are conceived in her womb, brought to birth and then given her milk. John Calvin He cannot have God for his Father who has not the church for his mother. … Continue reading “CHURCH
AS MOTHER”

The church is the daughter of the Word, not the Word’s mother. Martin Luther

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. G.K. Chesterton The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. Martin Luther King, Jr.

When a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its corporate activities that the prayer program will have the highest priority. Paul E. Billheimer The effectiveness of the prayer program of a church will be in direct proportion to the depth of the individual prayer life … Continue reading “CHURCH
AND PRAYER”

If you do not join in what the church is doing, you have no share in this Spirit. For where the church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the church and every kind of grace. Irenaeus The form of the church in any age is … Continue reading “CHURCH
AND HOLY SPIRIT”

Churching the unchurched is an absolute fallacy – it is like purposing to let the tares in. It is absolutely bizarre to want to make unsaved people feel comfortable in a church. The church is not a building – the church is a group of worshiping, redeemed, and sanctified people among whom an unbeliever should … Continue reading “CHURCH
AND EVANGELISM”

Although tares, or impure vessels, are found in the church, yet this is not a reason why we should withdraw from it. It only behoves us to labor that we may be vessels of gold or of silver. But to break in pieces the vessels of earth belongs to the Lord alone, to whom a … Continue reading “CHURCH,
WITHDRAWING FROM”

The church of Christ is the multitude of all those who believe in Christ for the remission of sins, and who are thankful for that mercy and who love the law of God purely, and who hate the sin in this world and long for the life to come. This is the church that cannot … Continue reading “CHURCH,
TRUE”

Tell me what the world is saying today, and I’ll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years. Francis Schaeffer