Sermons and Biblical Studies

The most important of life’s battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul. David O. McKay

Christianity is a battle, not a dream. Wendell Phillips

The only problem with Baptists is that they aren’t held under the water long enough. Author unknown Baptists are only funny underwater. Neil Simon

Not everyone is washed to receive salvation. We who have received the grace of baptism in the name of Christ have been washed; but I do not know which of us has been washed to salvation. Origen

The children of believers are baptized not in order that they who were previously strangers to the church may then for the first time become children of God, but rather that, because by the blessing of the promise they already belonged to the body of Christ, they are received into the church with this solemn … Continue reading “BAPTISM,
INFANT”

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. Robert Frost

God is: eternal (without beginning or end) Ps 90:2; gracious (loving beyond measure) 1 Jn 4:8; holy (sinless and opposed to sin) Lv 19:2; immutable (unchanging) Mal 3:6; just (fair and intent on making justice)  Dt 32:4; merciful (overflowing with compassion) Ps  145:9; omnipotent (unlimited power) Gn 17:1 omnipresent (everywhere at the same time)  Jer … Continue reading “ATTRIBUTES
OF GOD”

The Father imposed His wrath due unto, and the Son underwent punishment for, either: 1.      All the sins of all men. 2.      All the sins of some men. 3.      Some of the sins of some men. In which case it may be said: a.      That if the last be true, all men have some sins … Continue reading “ATONEMENT,
LIMITED”

See also: Atheism; Atheism and deism God is an imaginary being created by the mental instability of man, onto which he blames his iniquities, and from which expects reward for his accomplishments. Andy Benas

See also: Atheism All who seek God apart from Jesus Christ, and who rest in nature, either find no light to satisfy them, or form for themselves a means of knowing God and serving him without a Mediator. Thus they fall either into atheism or into deism, two things which the Christian religion almost equally … Continue reading “ATHEISM
AND DEISM”