Sermons and Biblical Studies

OT Pictures Situation Interpretation Reference Slave Market World System 1 John 5:19 Slave Master Satan John 12:31 Slaves Humanity Ephesians 2:2–3 The Problem Sin Colossians 2:14 Highest Bidder Jesus Christ Hebrews 2:14–15 Ransom Price Blood of Christ 1 Peter 1:18–19 One animal sacrifice per man Genesis 3 One sacrifice per family Exodus 12:3–14 One sacrifice … Continue reading “Atonement”

Quotes •      Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. – Heywood Broun, Gaily the Troubadour, Arthur Guiterman, 1936 •      God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the wrong instruments are … Continue reading “Atheism”

New Age About half of the Americans who are familiar with the New Age movement don’t take its teachings seriously, and a third of them say New Age thought runs counter to Judeo-Christian teaching, says a new poll by the Princeton Religious Research Center. The poll also shows that the general population’s awareness of the … Continue reading “Astrology”

Christ’s Atonement Certainty of salvation, because of the promises of God and the effectiveness of Christ’s atonement (1 John 5:13). The word does not occur often in the Bible, but the idea is more frequent. It is basic that people do not deserve their salvation because of their own efforts; that would leave them always … Continue reading “Assurance of Salvation”

Carpet Layer A professional carpet-layer stepped back to survey a newly installed carpet. Reaching into his shirt pocket for a cigarette, he realized the pack was missing. At the same time he noticed a lump under the carpet in the middle of the room, about the size of the missing cigarette pack. There was no … Continue reading “Assumptions (conclusions)”

Article of Faith The soldier’s first article of faith is summed up nowhere more eloquently than in an 1865 letter from William Tecumseh Sherman to U.S. Grant: “I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come–if alive.” Source unknown

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was and still is generally regarded as one of the most outstanding justices in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was known as the Great Dissenter because he disagreed with the other judges so much. Holmes sat on the Supreme Court until he was 91. Two … Continue reading “Aspiration”

Poor Art Many modern novels, poems, and pictures which we are brow-beaten into appreciating are not good work because they are not work at all. They are mere puddles of spilled sensibility or reflection. When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing taste, interests, and capacity … Continue reading “Arts”

Truth in When a Calvinist says that all things happen according to the predestination of God, he speaks the truth, and I am willing to be called a Calvinist. But when an Arminian says that when a man sins, the sin is his own, and that if he continues in sin, and perishes, his eternal … Continue reading “Arminianism”

Scientific Prophet At the end of the 19th century two French writers went to visit the well-known French scientist, Pierre Berthelot. Berthelot was a kind of scientific prophet. He forecast some of the weapons of mass destruction which would appear in the next century. He said to the writers, “We have only begun to list … Continue reading “Armageddon”