Sermons – Big Springs Community Church

7 Reasons We Do Not Have Altar Calls in Our Church

April 25, 2025April 25, 2025 BigSprings

© Nollie Malabuyo • Originally posted June 22, 2012, revised April 25, 2025 With the choir singing “Just As I am” softly in the background, the evangelist instructs the crowd, I want every head bowed, every eye closed, no one looking around. If you’ve never asked Jesus to come into your heart as your personal Lord and Savior, you’re on your way to hell. So slip up that hand. Or make your way to the front. Nobody will see you walk up here or slip up that hand… I see…

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Sermon Series: The Church, Existing from the Beginning of the World to the End

October 17, 2023October 18, 2023 BigSprings

In this sermon series, we studied the Biblical, theological and historical aspects of the church, and the metaphorical names used to refer to and symbolize it. We began with the ancient Paradise in creation (Genesis 2), the Garden of Eden, and came full circle to the future Paradise of God in the new heaven and new earth (Revelation 2:7; 22:1-5). “This church has existed from the beginning of the world and will last until the end “(Belgic Confession).

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The Surprising Origins of Two Thanksgiving Hymns

November 30, 2022October 18, 2023 BigSprings80 Years War, Come Ye Thankful People Come, Dutch War of Independence, Thanksgiving Day, We Gather Together, Wheat and Tares

It is true that “Come, Ye Thankful People, Come” (1844) has overtones of joy at harvest time. In Stanza 1, the people are exhorted to sing in thankfulness for the harvest “safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin” since “doth provide for our wants to be supplied.” However, the reference to a joyful harvest time ends here. In the next three stanzas, the theme unexpectedly shifts to Jesus’ Parable of the Wheat and Weeds (Matthew 13).

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

September 17, 2022September 20, 2022 BigSprings

And let everyone that is yet out of Christ, and hanging over the pit of hell, whether they be old men and women, or middle aged, or young people, or little children, now hearken to the loud calls of God’s word and providence. Therefore, let everyone that is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the wrath to come… Let everyone fly out of Sodom: “Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.”

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Sermon Series: The Kings and People of Israel

September 16, 2022October 18, 2023 BigSprings

When Israel clamored for a king, God declared, “They have rejected me from being king over them.” This 12-part series will survey the life and times of a sampling of the kings of the united monarchy, and later, the southern kingdom of Judah. We read in Scriptures that most of them were evil in the sight of the LORD, but a few did what was right and good in the sight of the LORD, and a few others did both good and evil in the sight of the LORD.

Covenant Sermons

New Series: God’s Covenants with Man

August 4, 2022May 24, 2024 BigSpringscovenant of grace, new covenant, old covenant

There are six major covenants: God’s covenants with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and the New Covenant under Christ. The framework of all Biblical history is grounded in these covenants, which fall under two main covenants: the Covenant of Works with Adam before the Fall, and the Covenant of Grace after the Fall.

Romans Sermons

Sermon Series on Paul’s Epistle to the Romans

July 1, 2021August 5, 2022 BigSpringsgospel, Jews and Gentiles, justification by faith alone, paul, predestination, romans, sovereignty of God

The Apostle Paul wrote this letter about AD 57, almost 30 years after our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven. At that time, he was preaching in Corinth in Greece during his third and last missionary journey. Paul addresses the tension between Jews and Gentile believers in Rome.

1 John Sermons

1 John Sermon Series

April 20, 2021April 21, 2021 BigSprings

John wrote his first epistle to counter false teachers in the church. First, these false teachers deny that Jesus is the Christ, and also the divinity and humanity of Jesus. Second, they also boast that they are able to not sin, and they are Christians, but their lives deny these boasts.

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Discerning Truth from Error in Our Culture

April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 BigSprings

God’s Word encourages us to speak the truth; but speak the truth in love and humility to our unbelieving family and friends and neighbors. We must not “cancel” anyone from the preaching of the gospel of Christ, his sacrificial death for our sins, and salvation from their bondage to the spirit of error.

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Sermon (April 18, 2021)

April 18, 2021April 19, 2021 BigSprings

We have to know and discern the spirit of truth from the spirit of error. These things have to be proclaimed out in the open, because if we as Christians do not, then, the time will come—and it is already upon us—when even the proclamation of the gospel will be canceled. Even now, churches and Christians are being singled out for persecution and “cancellation.”