Charles Spurgeon Movie

DOC The Checkered Flag Dale Earnhardt clip

Saved out of Calvinism - John 3:16 Conference Video

 This man who is speaking is giving his testimony about this conversion out of Calvinism into been a Christian.. 

He has the general idea of many Baptists. I AM NOT ONE OF THEM. I do not agree with this point at all. Nor to I agree with the John 3:16 Conference. But I do agree with the speaker on the platform.

The Supremacy of Christ: With Synmphonic Sermon

 

A SERMON BY JOHN PIPER AND DRAWING BY ACTION JONES

How big is your view of Jesus? Are you viewing him rightly? Have you recognized His supremacy in all things?

Think deeply.
Believe sincerely.
Live relentlessly.http://youtu.be/1PG8qTOEwpo
For Jesus.

Perhaps the best presentation of the gospel I’ve heard.

I first heard this on Tim site:

su·prem·a·cy (s-pr m-s) n. pl. su·prem·a·cies. 1. The quality or condition of being supreme. 2. Supreme power or authority. supremacy [sʊˈprɛməsɪ sjʊ-]

 

The Appeal for Obedience in the Christian Life

The Appeal To Live the Christian Life 1 of 3 from Charles E. Whisnant on Vimeo.

 Johnny And Phyllis Edwards in 2012 who have been with ROJBC since 2007

 Bill and Mary Bower Asso. Passtor since 2008 this was taken in 2012

Charles and my little 3 year old friend in November 2012

The Appeal to Obedience part 2 of 3 from Charles E. Whisnant on Vimeo.

THIS WAS BACK IN 2009 THIS POST HAS BEEN ON DRAFT SINCE THEN


The Appeal To Live the Christian Life 1 of 3 from Charles E. Whisnant on Vimeo.

Albert Mohler was one the key-note speakers at the 2012 Shepherd’s Conference. While there were several excellent speakers throughout the event, this message from Mohler was timely and relevant to me personally – and seemed to resonate with the two or three thousand others gathered there as well. Here is an excerpt from his introduction, full message in video below,

Let’s admit it. There’s a lot of mysteries in the christian life, but one of the greatest mysteries is why God would in His sovereign, omnipotent and omniscient, and wisdom and righteousness, and mercy choose the likes of folks as we… to do this. You might think that if we were orchestrating this, we might have angels doing the preaching. Everybody would listen to an angel, wouldn’t they? Of course,  not American angels. We domesticate little angels, we paint little pictures of cherubs and hang them in the bathroom. It’s a completely different reality. Just remember in the Gospel of Luke, the angelic hosts showed up to the shepherds and the first think they had to say is, “First of all, don’t die” – “Fear not, we bring you tidings of great joy”. Meanwhile, most Americans, in our weirdo, fake, postmodern spirituality think they’re channeling with little cherubs in the bathroom.

But God doesn’t assign angels to do the preaching. He assigned human preachers, men whom He has called because when an angel shows up to preach you don’t ask, “How did God do that?”. But, when we show up to preach you’re looking at me going (saying), “He’s just flesh and blood. He’s nearsighted. He only speaks one language. He’s gonna be hungry soon. He fell asleep during a Greek lecture, thirty something years ago and you’re letting him preach?” Well, it’s as the apostle Paul says, “It’s so that the glory would be all of God’s and not ours. So that the excellence would be His excellence that’s demonstrated and not ours.”

Admit it: you’d love to be doing this, and then admit it: That’s a good thing. And then let’s just admit it together, it’s just a priceless thing that we get to be together for these days and these hours, to preach and to hear preaching and to be encouraged, not only by each other, but by the Holy Spirit of God in this calling that has come to us.

Daniel 12 Michael, Great Tribulation, Resurrection,

Spiritual Depression - D. Martyn Lloyd Jones [Book Trailer]

I know, I’m late to the Spiritual Depression party. I’ve heard it quoted often. Many people have shared personal testimonies about how much it’s helped them. And on the strength of the quotes (often extended), the personal recommendation of friends, and my general love and trust for Lloyd-Jones, I’ve recommended the book a number of times myself. But until now, I’ve actually never read it. I’m excited to be correcting that omission over the next couple days. And along the way, I’m equally excited to hear the good Doctor’s original sermons that became this classic treatise on the Christian life.
So, over the next few days, Lord willing, I hope to post some reflections and thoughts as I read through the book. Today, I want to offer a brief summary of Thomas’ biographical foreword and Lloyd-Jones’ brief preface.
Thomas, a faithful Welsh minister himself, gives us a helpful introduction to Lloyd-Jones and his counseling philosophy in eight summary statements. As much as a biographical introduction to Lloyd-Jones, Thomas’ summary gives us insight into Lloyd-Jones’ dependence upon the word of God as the means of change and growth. Below are the eight major headers and a couple sentences from those sections used by Thomas to introduce us to Lloyd-Jones:

1. He was such a well-rounded, intelligent, and tender personality. Although a mighty intellect with a formidable presence he was accessible and not at all intimidating. There was not a trace of snobbery in him whatsoever; he loathed that sin.
2. He was also utterly committed to the faith of the Scriptures. Confessionally he stood in the tradition of the 1823 Confession of the Calvinistic Methodist Church of Wales. In 1952 he began a series of sermons on Friday nights which was to last for three years on the Great Doctrines of the Bible. They have been published in an 800 page book and they show his grasp of the subtlety of biblical theology, his total trust in the teaching of the Bible and his desire that all his thinking should be controlled by it.

If I might, I want to commend Lloyd-Jones’ Great Doctrines of the Bible (Crossway) to anyone interested in (a) studying their Bible’s more systematically, (b) interested in getting to know the Doctor, or (c) interested in learning to preach doctrine with light and passion. Through these volumes, Lloyd-Jones became my first teacher in systematics. I will forever sing God’s praises for leading me to purchase these volumes as the first books I read as a new Christian.

3. He was a man who maintained the disciplines of private devotion. He had from the early days of his ministry adopted Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s daily Bible passage as his own…. (pdf | app)
4. He was a man to whom people went for spiritual help. Thomas includes this instruction on counseling from Lloyd-Jones to a gathering of medical doctors:

“What is needed is great patience and sympathy, and the power to put oneself in those people’s situation. The adviser must not hold to his own rigid position otherwise the man will simply become a tangent to a closed circle. The adviser may end by feeling that he has taken the ‘Christian stand’ and said all that was right. He may feel happy; but he may, by this very fact, have left the person in extreme misery. This is obviously bad counseling. The point is that we must be very careful not to foist our opinions on others. The counsellor is not a dictator, he is simply there to give help. While he may give his views and, with care, put them quite strongly if asked, yet all that is put to the patient must be in a spirit of real sympathy, love and understanding. As counsellors we must never be in the position of dictating to another person’s conscience. We have no right to imagine ourselves as ‘the conscience’ of another! We are there to share with those who consult us experience, knowledge, wisdom and suggestions concerning the way of cure. There are, unfortunately, Christians who feel it their duty to impose their own legalistic views of others. Our business, however, is to persuade, never to force. We must always be careful to avoid condemnation–especially in the case of a sick or agitated person. If the plain truth of the situation comes home to the patient that is one thing; but it is not our place to condemn.”

5. He believed in the sufficiency of Scripture. This meant he had confidence that the weekly preaching of the Bible would encourage Christians to understand and appreciate the person and work of Christ, that they would come thus under the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and would be so energized by him as to give obedience to the ethical demands of the Word of God. Preaching the Word in the power of the Spirit, he believed, would itself lift up the downcast–transforming, elevating, ennobling and enriching their lives beyond measure.
6. He was a man who was prepared to help people in every way he could. He would stay at Westminster Chapel until the last person had been counseled. He would write letters to people all over the world. … He also journeyed extensively all over the United Kingdom to support ministers and evangelical causes.
7. He was a man with a lucidity in explaining the human condition, engaging men’s minds in such an interesting and increasingly gripping manner that the troubles and fears that they had brought with them soon became forgotten distractions. The were being filled with the word of the Lord as they felt themselves addressed by the Lord of the word. So their cares were put into perspective as God was magnified before them.

I love that second sentence as a partial statement on what should be happening, with God’s blessing, in our preaching. We should fill the people with the word of the Lord so that the people know they are being addressed by the Lord of the word. Thomas is exactly correct to see that such preaching puts cares in perspective and magnifies the majesty of God. As Lloyd-Jones himself said, “I can forgive a man for a bad sermon, I can forgive the preacher almost anything if he gives me a sense of God, if he gives me something for my soul, if he gives me a sense that, though he is inadequate in himself, he is handling something which is very great and very glorious, if he gives me some dim glimpse of the majesty and the glory of God, the love of Christ my Savior, and the magnificence of the Gospel.”

8. He was a man persuaded that the person who had come to seek his counsels had more knowledge of all the circumstances involved than he himself had. So he would interrogate the inquirer, who might have wanted a straight directive word to his problem, asking him, “Now what do you think?”

Lloyd-Jones writes a short, direct preface to the original volume. In his foreword, Lloyd-Jones states the reason for preaching these sermons and compiling this volume. ”Believing as I do that the greatest need of the hour is a revived and joyful Church the subject dealt with in these sermons is to me of greatest possible importance. Unhappy Christians are, to say the least, a poor recommendation of the Christian Faith; and there can be little doubt but that the exuberant joy of the early Christians was one of the most potent factors in the spread of Christianity.” Lloyd-Jones preached these sermons, he says, “‘for the common people’ and those who are in need of help’.” It’s my pastoral experience that “the common people,” everyday Christians, which is to say all of us, need from time to time biblical help to acquire spiritual joy. That spiritual joy goes hand-in-hand with flowering revival.

For my own joy and revival, I’m looking forward to prayerfully and meditatively reading Spiritual Depression. For those new to Spiritual Depression and Lloyd-Jones, you might enjoy this trailer for the book.

IS PORM A MENTAL ILLNESS OR SIN?

IS PORM A MENTAL ILLNESS OR SIN?
To the World it is a sexual addiction.
In the biblical terms it is SIN.

	The Bible to be the infallible Word of God, that it is His holy and inspired Word, and that it is of supreme and final authority.
•	In one God, eternally existing in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
•	Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary. He led a sinless life, took on Himself all our sins, died and rose again, and is seated at the right hand of the Father as our mediator and advocate.
•	That all men everywhere are in need of a Savior. God has provided this through His Son Jesus Christ who was killed on a cross and rose three days later.
•	That Christ rose from the dead and is coming again.
•	In holy Christian living, and that we must have concern for the hurts and social needs of our fellowmen.

This last Sunday in the Adult Bible Study class I dealt with Mental Illness, is it a Sickness or Sin. I got a little flax over that. I wonder what it would have been if I had attack Porm.

So do preachers have a problem with issue: of course.

In this video you will hear these NFL football players talk about this:

JON Kitna, Josh Mccown, Miles PcPherson, Matt Hasselbeck, and Eric Boles

National Porn Sunday Talk This website deal with this issue:

A TYPICAL RESPONSE TO THOSE WHO WATCH THE VIDEO. I will quote one of the more clean version.

"I just wish people would stop trying to dictate their morals to others. If you don’t like porn then don’t watch it. As long as we do our best to make sure it’s not the children watching it (practically impossible for teenagers but still) then whatever people do in the privacy of their own homes is their own business."

ANOTHER LINK I JUST TODAY VIEWED: FIREPOOF MINISTRIES.... LINK HERE

John MacArthur on Charles Spurgeon & Worldly Preaching

The church needs men like Charles Spurgeon. Surgeon was a man that was not afraid to boldly stand for the truth. Preaching the Word of God was his sole passion. He believed the churches tolerance of real preaching was beginning to decline. He looked around at other pastors and say they were already beginning to experience with shorter sermons and looking for different approaches. Shorter messages to be more applicable or relevant. And to drew bigger crowds’.

He saw that preachers were beginning to compromise truth, and doctrine by preaching less and doing other things more and more.

But Spurgeon saw the danger of that, and he spent a great deal of time holding on to the truth. And doing do led the Baptist of his time to sender him. And while at one time he was the most respected preacher now he was not. And it took such a toile on him that it lead to his death.

This idea of whether you should stick to this straight forward of God’s ordained method of preaching or move on to a more relevant kind of entertaining method led to a negative to his health and then his life.

As you know since his death in 1865, some have kept the faith of faithful preaching. Others have of course question that.

The prevailing opinion of the day. Please log on to our website and vote.

“wasting less time listening to long sermons and spending more time preparing short ones. People, I’ve discovered, will forgive even poor theology as long as they get out before not.” A preacher wrote.

Do you understand the heart of the quote? It is better for the preacher to keep the congregation conformable, entertain and interested; even what he is preaching is not completely biblical. And that I am afraid does sum up the average attitude of preachers and people in Christian ministry today.

Bad doctrine is okay, but a long sermon is most certainly is not. The length of the sermon is far more of concern to the average church goer

The length of the sermon is of more concern to the average church goers than the content of the sermon.

Where you are going to eat lunch, or what, has more impact than the nourishment of the spiritual soul. Today long sermons is considered a greater sin than hersey. We are willing to put personal comfort over the very important virtues: like truth and doctrine and God’s glory. And that kind of thinking as the attitude that could destroy the church.

John MacArthur

THIS KID ALTAR CALL THAT DAMNS CHILDREN LIFE

 THIS IS WHY SO MANY CHILDREN NEVER GET SAVED?

THIS IS ABOUT THE WORST KIND OF APPEAR TO GET CHILDREN SAVED?

And it happens about every VBC program.

I can get you dozens of examples of this poor way of getting children saved?

Altar Calls in a lot of Churches

Dr. Raymond Barber was the best at giving a altar call. Most of our Indp Baptist give a great altar call. But a lot of other churches do the same thing.

Where do we see an altar call in the Bible. Did Jesus ever give an altar call after his sermons?

Happy Penguine in the World

The Beatitudes

 

I will be speaking Wednesday Night December 29, 2010 on 

EIGHT STEPS  TO FOLLOW IN BECOMING A SUCCESSFUL PERSON

Glenn Beck on Salvation?

This is rather interesting for sure. I would say most Christians believe what Glenn Beck says about salvation and how one becomes a Christian.

MY POINT: Jesus Christ can say you if you receive Him. It must be accepted personally and individually yes, but Christ gives the invitation to those whom He died for on the Cross. Yes we are saved by GRACE, and GRACE alone.

The point is this: Salvation starts and ends with Christ alone.

REGENERATION: OR Justification or SALVATION .....

• .the first effect of the power of God in the heart in regeneration is to give the heart a Divine taste or sense; to cause it to have a relish of the loveliness and sweetness of the supreme excellency of the Divine nature.Jonathan Edwards

• I say that man, before he is renewed into the new creation of the Spirit's kingdom, does and endeavours nothing to prepare himself for that new creation and kingdom, and when he is re-created has does and endeavors nothing towards his perseverance in that kingdom; but the Spirit alone works both blessings in us, regenerating us, and preserving us when regenerate, without ourselves..."

Martin Luther fromThe Bondage of the Will (pg. 268)

• Indeed the Word of God is like the sun, shining upon all those to whom it is proclaimed, but with no effect among the blind. Now, all of us are blind by nature in this respect... Accordingly, it cannot penetrate into our minds unless the Spirit, as the inner teacher, through his illumination makes entry for it.

John Calvin from The Institutes of the Christian Religion (3.2.34)

Robert "Bob" Temple, Sr. Preaching

HISTORY OF THE MODERN GOSPEL

History of the Modern Gospel: Session Three from Real Truth Matters on Vimeo.

WELCOME TO THE CIRCUS

I have address this issue many times in this Blogger.  Read and read articles on this subject.  John MacArthur has been the pastor/teacher that has address this so great.  But his is a video by the group truth that matters, and its says what John MacArthur has said for a long time.  Its my desire that we can learn from this video.

VIdeo Three Baby Birds

Taking a break from studying the book of Romans chapter 3.

Tim Conway

Humor is really good for the old soul you know.