Sermons and Biblical Studies

Feast: I Know Your Works Jesus Christ’s Words To His People #FT04-01-PM Richard T. Ritenbaugh Given 30-Sep-04; 84 minutes Go to the Our Foundation and Works (sermon series) description: (hide) Over a period of time, we can become an aficionado, learning to evaluate works of art, distinguishing the works of one artist from another, or … Continue reading “Feast: I Know Your Works”

Sermonette: The Highway of Holiness Remembering Where We Came From #FT04-03s Mark Schindler Given 30-Sep-04; 15 minutes listen: description: (hide) Mark Schindler, after initially focusing upon the Millennial setting in Isaiah 35- depicting a Highway of Holiness, reflects back to his early experience as a former Roman Catholic at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Chicago, … Continue reading “Sermonette: The Highway of Holiness”

Feast: The ‘Rest’ of Hebrews 4 Our Rest Is Yet Unfulfilled #FT04-01-AM John W. Ritenbaugh Given 30-Sep-04; 73 minutes listen: description: (hide) Hebrews 4:9 promises rest, and in preparation, we must endure and persevere, overcoming doubts and unbelief—something many of our forebears (described in Hebrews 3 and 4) did not successfully attain. When we become … Continue reading “Feast: The ‘Rest’ of Hebrews 4”

Sermonette: The Devotion of the Firstfruits Offertory #FT04-02s John W. Ritenbaugh Given 30-Sep-04; 20 minutes listen: description: (hide) In this offertory message, after explaining the need for offering: (1) maintaining unity,(2)not a slaughter, but an uncomplaining giving of life, (3) determined by the cost to the giver, and (4) the existence of a temple where … Continue reading “Sermonette: The Devotion of the Firstfruits”

Sermon: The Patterns of God Trumpets: The Real War to End all Wars #685C John O. Reid (1930-2016) Given 26-Sep-04; 70 minutes description: (hide) The Day of Trumpets pictures God’s corrective actions that He will take because of His people’s and the world’s disobedience. History has demonstrated recurring, disturbing trends in which armed conflict has … Continue reading “Sermon: The Patterns of God”

Sermonette: Give an Offering? No Sweat! Offerings and Good Works #687s Richard T. Ritenbaugh Given 25-Sep-04; 16 minutes listen: description: (hide) In this offertory message, Richard Ritenbaugh affirms that without God’s providence we are and have absolutely nothing. Even though we may lack physical energy on this day because of afflicting our souls with fasting, … Continue reading “Sermonette: Give an Offering? No Sweat!”

Sermon: Pride, Humility, and Fasting Why We Fast on Atonement #687 John W. Ritenbaugh Given 25-Sep-04; 74 minutes listen: description: (hide) The intent of afflicting our souls on the Day of Atonement, made clear by the Hebrew verb ‘awnah’—cowing or browbeating our human nature into submission, is to deflate our pride, the major taproot of … Continue reading “Sermon: Pride, Humility, and Fasting”

Sermon: What Is Always True About the World? Keeping Ourselves From Idolatry #686 Martin G. Collins Given 18-Sep-04; 64 minutes listen: description: (hide) As people of God, we need to know where we stand in relationship with the world or God will test us to make sure we know. As a primary means of guarding … Continue reading “Sermon: What Is Always True About the World?”

Sermonette: Antidotes to Anxiety Pre-Feast Trials #686s Bill Onisick Given 18-Sep-04; 15 minutes listen: description: (hide) Bill Onisick, focusing upon the perennial problem of Pre-feast trials or anxieties, examines the root causes of anxiety- fear of future- or fear of not having our needs provided . Our God has assured us that He will provide … Continue reading “Sermonette: Antidotes to Anxiety”

Sermon: God and Reality The Feast of Trumpets and Reality #685B John W. Ritenbaugh Given 16-Sep-04; 80 minutes listen: description: (hide) By refusing to believe God’s Word, rejecting His doctrine, society does not find God to be real (including many church-going people, who pick and choose their own beliefs apart from Scripture). He cannot be … Continue reading “Sermon: God and Reality”