Sermonette: Money and Balancing Prosperity #FT02-02s John W. Ritenbaugh Given 21-Sep-02; 19 minutes listen: description: (hide) In this offertory sermonette, John Ritenbaugh focuses on the role of money in a person’s life, indicating, in one context, outward evidence of God’s favor and in another context a source of trial and temptation. Christ emphasized interdependence and … Continue reading “Sermonette: Money and Balancing Prosperity”
Feast: The Handwriting Is on the Wall (2002)
Feast: The Handwriting Is on the Wall (2002) The Rise of the Gentiles #FT02-00 John W. Ritenbaugh Given 20-Sep-02; 46 minutes listen: description: (hide) The prophecy of Deuteronomy 28:42-49 concerns the curse of the stranger rising higher and higher above us, displacing our Israelitish culture with an alien Gentile culture. Like leaven in bread dough, … Continue reading “Feast: The Handwriting Is on the Wall (2002)”
Sermonette: Sacrifice and Offering
Sermonette: Sacrifice and Offering Offeratory #577s Richard T. Ritenbaugh Given 16-Sep-02; 22 minutes listen: description: (hide) Richard Ritenbaugh observes that in our pampered materialistic society, people unfortunately no longer feel the need for sacrifice. The Old Testament sacrifices were types of the sacrifices of a broken heart, repentance, and changed lives that God demands now. … Continue reading “Sermonette: Sacrifice and Offering”
Sermon: Foolishness and Cleansing
Sermon: Foolishness and Cleansing Foolishness IS sin, and must be atoned for #577 John W. Ritenbaugh Given 16-Sep-02; 76 minutes listen: description: (hide) Human nature has a perverse drive to take risks, pushing the envelope to the limits, taking unwise chances, foolishly gambling away the future. God has provided for all of us wisdom literature, … Continue reading “Sermon: Foolishness and Cleansing”
Sermon: Christ Our Wisdom
Sermon: Christ Our Wisdom Godly Wisdom Defined #576 Martin G. Collins Given 14-Sep-02; 71 minutes listen: description: (hide) In spite of the plethora of information today, there is a dearth of wisdom. Wisdom, a gift given through God’s Holy Spirit, is an attribute of God and Jesus Christ, encompassing the right uses of the right … Continue reading “Sermon: Christ Our Wisdom”
Sermon: Sovereignty and ‘Once Saved Always Saved’
Sermon: Sovereignty and ‘Once Saved Always Saved’ Are We Guaranteed to Make It? #575B John W. Ritenbaugh Given 07-Sep-02; 77 minutes listen: description: (hide) Those who believe in the "once saved always saved" doctrine foolishly fail to see that God has a more extensive and creative plan for mankind than merely saving them. One can … Continue reading “Sermon: Sovereignty and ‘Once Saved Always Saved’”
Sermonette: Peacemaker
Sermonette: Peacemaker Trumpets and Peace #575Bs Bill Cherry Given 07-Sep-02; 22 minutes listen: description: (hide) Bill Cherry identifies three practical steps to live peaceably with all men:(1) Be easy to be entreated;(2) See our enemies as created in God’s image having similar faults as we do, loving them and praying for them;(3) Communicate with people … Continue reading “Sermonette: Peacemaker”
Sermonette: Do We See God In This Picture?
Sermonette: Do We See God In This Picture? Offeratory #575As John W. Ritenbaugh Given 07-Sep-02; 21 minutes listen: description: (hide) In this offertory sermonette, John Ritenbaugh suggests that undergiving in offerings, sometimes caused by mismanaging our finances, is more often caused by passively forgetting the blessings God has given us. God has blessed His people, … Continue reading “Sermonette: Do We See God In This Picture?”
Sermon: Christ’s Second Coming
Le Second Avenement Du Christ Sermon: Christ’s Second Coming The Pivot Event in Fulfilling Trumpets #575A Richard T. Ritenbaugh Given 07-Sep-02; 72 minutes listen: description: (hide) The Feast of Trumpets memorializes God’s deliverance of Israel beginning with Joseph and ending with Moses, and looks forward to Christ’s return when God will fully deliver His people. … Continue reading “Sermon: Christ’s Second Coming”
Sermon: Sanctification and the Teens
Sermon: Sanctification and the Teens Our Children are Acountable Too #574 John W. Ritenbaugh Given 31-Aug-02; 77 minutes listen: description: (hide) We are suffering from an epidemic of Adolescent Invincibility Disorder Syndrome (AIDS), an affliction in which young people foolishly imagine themselves to be invincible and impervious to harm. Young people in the church must … Continue reading “Sermon: Sanctification and the Teens”