“The Law a Shadow of Good Things to Come”

March 12, 2017September 25, 2019 BigSpringsanimal sacrifices, conscience, Hebrews 10, once-for-all sacrifice, perfection of saints, Psalm 40, sinners and saints

Psalm 40:6-8; Hebrews 10:1-18 March 5, 2017 • Download this sermon (PDF) Congregation of Christ: “God doesn’t just forgive, he forgets. He erases the board. He destroys the evidence. He burns the microfilm. He clears the computer. He doesn’t remember my mistakes.” What I just read is a quote from a popular evangelical author, Max Lucado. Do you agree or disagree with his statement? After all, in verse 17 of our text, God says, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” Here’s another thought that…

Exodus Hebrews Sermons

Jesus the Once-for-All-Sacrifice

March 6, 2017September 25, 2019 BigSpringsbloody sacrifices, covenant, Exodus 24, Hebrews 9, Humane Society, mediator, PETA, SPCA

Exodus 24:1-8; 1 Timothy 2:5; 1 Peter 3:18; Hebrews 9:11-28 March 5, 2017 • Download this sermon (PDF) Congregation of Christ: Did you ever notice that movies today that show animals being hurt or killed will have a disclaimer at the end, saying, “No animal in this film was harmed”? Or do you remember the story a few years ago of some whales stranded in an ice field off the east coast of Russia? A lot of money and effort, in addition to putting rescuers in danger, were spent…

Hebrews Leviticus Sermons

What’s So Holy About the Holy Places?

February 26, 2017September 25, 2019 BigSpringsday of atonement, Hebrews 9, holy of holies, Leviticus 16, tabernacle, Temple, the holy place, the most holy place

Leviticus 16:2-19; Hebrews 9:1-10 February 26, 2017 • Download this sermon (PDF) Congregation of Christ: “One of the specifications of the agreement between Israel and the Antichrist will allow the religious Jews to rebuild the Temple and to initiate daily sacrifices.” Do you agree with this statement? The speaker is talking about a peace treaty between Israel and the Antichrist after Christians are secretly raptured to heaven. In this treaty, the Antichrist will allow Jews to rebuild the Jerusalem Temple on the present site of the Muslim mosque on the…

Church & Culture Church Blog KSYC Program

The Clockmaker God

February 22, 2017September 25, 2019 BigSpringsatheism, Benjamin Franklin, clockmaker, creator, deism, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire

February 12, 2017 • KSYC • Download this article (PDF) Listen to the broadcast here. Last Sunday, I discussed different worldviews that people today cling to. There are two diametrically opposed worldviews: Christianity and atheism. Christianity teaches that there is one God, and this God exists in Three Persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. These Three Persons are all of the same essence, co-eternal, without beginning or end. Atheism, on the other hand, denies that God exists, and that there is nothing else…

Church & Culture Church Blog KSYC Program

The “Isms” of a Dying Culture

February 22, 2017September 25, 2019 BigSpringsatheism, dying culture, existentialism, hedonism, narcissism, naturalism, nihilism, relativism, theism

February 5, 2017 • KSYC • Download this article (PDF) Today, we see an almost total breakdown of our culture. There is rampant lawlessness, violence, sexual immorality, abortion of unborn infants, disregard for all authorities, and radical individualism. Many sociologists have even called our society as a “dying culture.” [footnote]The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, for example, says, “The purpose of the Alliance’s existence is to call the Church, amidst a dying culture, to repent of its worldliness…”[/footnote] Theologians are convinced that America is in a post-Christian era, because most Americans no…

KSYC Program

Anything Theistic About Theistic Evolution?

February 20, 2017September 25, 2019 BigSpringscreation, day-age theory, evolution, gap theory, Genesis 1, theistic evolution

January 29, 2017 • KSYC 103.9FM Yreka, CA The debate about creation vs. evolution has raged since Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. Because of the popularity of the evolution theory, today many evangelicals propose a mixture of the Biblical creation account and evolution, saying that God used the process of evolution to create human beings. The Bible says that God created the universe out of nothing, and man and woman out of the dust of the earth. All of these God made in six days of…

Hebrews Jeremiah Sermons

Jesus the Superior High Priest of the Superior Covenant

February 20, 2017September 25, 2019 BigSpringsHebrews 8, High Priest, Jeremiah 31, new covenant, old covenant, tabernacle

Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 8:1-13 (text) February 19, 2017 • Download this sermon (PDF) Congregation of Christ: Let me read a quote from a recent article by a well-known seminary professor: before [Israel’s] monarchy, the historical nature of the biblical accounts is either utterly unclear or in direct tension with the general outline of history that has come to light in the past century or so. Historically speaking, we really don’t know where the Israelites came from, and the exodus and conquest stories, which are so central to the biblical…

Genesis Hebrews Sermons

Jesus the Better Priest-King

February 13, 2017September 25, 2019 BigSpringsAaron, Abraham, Genesis 14, Hebrews 7, High Priest, Levi, Melchizedek, Psalm 110

Genesis 14:17-20; Hebrews 7:1-28 February 5, 2017 • Dowload this sermon (PDF) Congregation of Christ: What are the most popular baby names today? For those who want Biblical names, the most popular for girls are Ava, Isabella, Abigail, Amelia. For boys, Noah, Elijah, Michael, Jacob, Ethan and Matthew are the most popular. Some people are surprised when they learn that “Nollie” is just my nickname, and my birth name is “Napoleon.” How does “Napoleon” rank in popularity for boys’ names? It’s 7,557th! Talking about unpopular boys’ names, what about…

Church Blog

Couples in the Bible

February 13, 2017September 25, 2019 BigSpringsbiblical couples, Valentine's Day

Just for fun on Valentine’s Day. Test your knowledge without first googling. Answers here.

Sermons

The Law of Love

February 13, 2017September 25, 2019 BigSprings

Deuteronomy 6:5; Leviticus 19:18; Matthew 22:34-40 February 14, 2017 • Download this meditation (PDF) If you were to go out to Walmart and ask random people to define love, what would you guess would be the responses? Would it be loving a spouse, or a boyfriend or girlfriend? Or “love is blind,” or “love is a many-splendored thing,” or that “love is all we need”? Or “love is heartbreaking,” if it’s coming from a spurned lover? But do you know that the Ten Commandments (Exo 20:1-17) is about love? When…