The Big Idea of the Christian Home
May 10, 2009
Mother’s Day – Bible Study
The Bible Study time involved a look at the foundational revelation from Genesis 1 and 2 on the Christian home and then tracing through some of the big implications of that revelation as it shows up in the New Testament regarding the idea of the Christian home. God’s intention in the Christian home is to reproduce what God intended at the initial creation. This becomes the foundation for all biblical teaching on the home.
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Not Provoking – the challenge of Christian parenting
May 10, 2009
Mother’s Day – Eph 6.4
For mother’s day, we decided to make the day an emphasis on the Christian Home. I recently preached on the subject of child training at the recent NW Regional FBF conference, so thought to combine that message with two others on the same subject for an all day emphasis.
The first message concentrated on the first half of Eph 6.4, ‘do not provoke your children to wrath’. We looked at what wrath is and then considered ways in which children are provoked to wrath, including abuse of hand or tongue, inappropriate overbearing leadership, and abdication or absence of leadership. The biblical alternative to this is found in the second half of the verse, which is the subject of our afternoon message. The decision we need to make in light of the possibility of provoking our children to wrath involves forgiveness and attitude adjustment if we are ‘children of wrath’, i.e., if we have been provoked by parents in one of the ways mentioned, repentance if we are currently provoking children to wrath and a replacement of our ways with the Lord’s ways, to be discussed in more detail in the afternoon message.
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The Public Propitiation
May 3, 2009
Rm 3.25
The first concept of this verse, and an exceedingly precious one, takes a new tack in understanding the great change now made available to sinners. Previously, we have considered the benefits that accrue to man from his justification by the ‘without-law’ kind of righteousness. In this message, we look at the change wrought in God.
God is propitiated by the work of Christ. That is, he is made propitious, favorable, disposed to receive us, the way is open, free and clear for anyone by faith to come into his presence. Unlike the weakness of the yearly day of atonement, the great atonement of the cross opens the door for men to worship God permanently and forever.
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Creation of Man (2)
May 3, 2009
[Basic Theology]
Our lesson following Ryrie’s outline continues this week, where we discuss the idea of man created in the image of God.
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Day of Affliction
May 3, 2009
Lev 16.1-34
It so ‘happens’ that as we come to our communion Sunday, the chapter we are in for our Leviticus series is the very chapter needed for the background to our next verse in our Romans study. As a result, we made the Leviticus message our morning message and the Romans message our afternoon and communion message.
The Day of Atonement is the annual ritual whereby the Tabernacle was cleansed to allow Israel access to God for another year. In this cleansing, by ritual, the Israelite had to in faith believe that God indeed would accept the nation, hear their prayers and receive their offerings because the accumulated uncleanness of the year was removed and the sins of the year atoned for. The ceremony is a spectacular picture of the work of Christ on our behalf in many ways.
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The Northwest Regional FBF Conference
May 2, 2009
The Northwest Regional FBF Conference
I’d like to commend to you the messages from our recent meeting in Monroe, WA. Our theme was “That your love may abound” (Phil 1.9). One of our speakers did an excellent job of exposing our theme passage to us. Unfortunately, the recording of his message suffered a glitch and the first bit of it is missing.
If you have time for only a few of these, be sure to listen to Dr. Bob’s messages on Meekness and Dr. Vaughn’s message on Keep Yourselves in the Love of God.
The first two messages are ‘bonus’ messages from Dr. Bob for the 10th Anniversary Sunday of Monroe Baptist Church which preceded our meeting.
- 4/19/09 – Dr. Bob Jones III: Anniversary Sermon: An Enduring Oak
- 4/19/09 – Dr. Bob Jones III: What do we care about the Kingdom of God
- 4/20/09 – Rev. John Stima: Set Your Affections on Things Above
- 4/20/09 – Dr. Bob Jones III: The Grace of God Teaches Us
- 4/21/09 – Dr. Bob Jones III: Meekness Defined
- 4/21/09 – Dr. John Vaughn: Speaking the Truth in Love
- 4/21/09 – Rev. Don Johnson: Disciplined Admonition
- 4/21/09 – Dr. Tom Nieman: A Seasoned Pastor Looks At Current Trends
- 4/21/09 – Dr. Bob Jones III: Meekness Maligned
- 4/21/09 – Dr. John Vaughn: Keep Yourselves in the Love of God
- 4/22/09 – Rev. Brian Ernsberger: That Your Love May Abound
(first part of message truncated by recording problem) - 4/22/09 – Dr. Bob Jones III: Meekness Modeled
- 4/22/09 – Dr. John Vaughn: Let this Mind be in You
- 4/22/09 – Dr. Bob Jones III: Go and Tell
Here is a link to the audio files.
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