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Showing posts with label Pride. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pride. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Sermon Video: The Supporting Cast at Advent: King Herod - Matthew 2:3-8,13-18

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  Often forgotten amidst the joy and celebration of Christmas, King Herod attempting to thwart God's sending of the Messiah from its sta...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Beginning of Wisdom (Torah Club) lesson #20: Equally blasting the Church and Judaism, claiming both "have concealed the knowledge of God" (because FFOZ believes that they alone have it).

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  I'll admit off the bat, this section contains one of my pet peeves, "taking the Bible literally."  In most cases, when someo...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Sermon Video: The cause of Peter's bitter tears, Luke 22:54-62

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Peter's denial of Jesus is famous, in part because all 4 Gospel accounts cover this low-point of the Apostle's life. But what cause...
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Sermon Video: The same attitude toward each other as Jesus had -Romans 15:1-6

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Why should Christians of "strong" faith bear with those whose faith is "weak"?  The answer certainly isn't to bolste...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Sermon Video: Living like Jesus in the everyday things - Romans 12:13-16

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As disciples of Jesus, imitating him is a key aspect of our faith.  Here in Romans 12, the Apostle Paul offers 4 examples of behavior that h...
Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Sermon Video: How should we view ourselves? - Romans 12:3

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Before explaining how the various members of the church (local and universal) fit together in God's will, the Apostle Paul offers a remi...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

How have the Torah Clubs responded to the united warning of the Franklin Christian Ministerium?

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The Franklin Christian Ministerium released its  warning against the Torah Clubs and the First Fruits of Zion  on February 16th, of 2023, al...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #27: Luke 22:24-27

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  Luke 22:24-27     New International Version 24 A dispute also arose among them as to which of them was considered to be greatest. 25 Jesus...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Sermon Video: The Gospel is incompatible with boasting - Romans 3:27-31

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Concluding his section on the triumph of faith in Christ, being both our means to justification and forgiveness, the Apostle Paul asks what ...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Sermon Video: The Fall of Peter: Love and Fear - Mark 14:66-72

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Alone in the courtyard while the trial of Jesus progresses, Peter is faced with three increasingly dramatic opportunities to affirm himself ...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Sermon Video: Peter's Folly - "Even if all fall away, I will not" Mark 14:27-31

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"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread" sums up the episode that occurs as Jesus and his disciples walk to the Garden of Gethse...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

Sermon Video: A prophet without honor - Mark 6:1-6

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  "Local boy returns to a hero's welcome", that's what the headline should have read for the Nazareth newspaper (had there...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

2020 has taken the measure of the Church, and found us wanting

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It would not be difficult to criticize the American political response to the combined blows of COVID-19 and the racial reckoning that follo...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Sermon Video: Real Love - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

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Christians are supposed to be known for their love, love for each other, and love for even their enemies.  This, of itself, is beyond our ca...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

NO politician will ever be, "like the Second Coming" to claim such is blasphemous

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Let me be clear at the outset, this warning pertains to ANY politician or their supporters who have the audacity to make a comparison to Jes...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Sermon Video: Humbling ourselves for the sake of the Gospel - 1 Corinthians 9:19-23

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Are we responsible for presenting the Gospel to the Lost in ways that mesh with their cultural and intellectual/emotional state?  The Apostl...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

When Protestants and Catholics agreed: the sun revolves around the earth

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Despite the mathematical proofs of the Greek mathematicians Pythagoras (580-500 BC) and Eratosthenes (276-194 BC), the later of whom calcula...
Friday, March 15, 2019

White Nationalism and White Supremacy are an abomination to the Church

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With the horror of at least  49 people killed  by multiple gunmen at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, we are confronted with the da...
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Sermon Video: "The pride of your heart has deceived you" - Obadiah 1-9

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In the first half of Obadiah's message from the LORD to Edom, the prophet warns Edom that God's judgment is at hand, that they will ...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Sermon Video: The word that made a crowd want to kill Paul - Acts 22:17-29

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At the conclusion of Paul's defense before the mob that had moments before tried to beat him to death after dragging him from the temple...