Tag: Expository

Moving On – Joshua 24

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Who will be our next leader? In the coming days and weeks, our nation will say farewell to the man who has been leading us, and a new leader will arise. Who will it be, and how will they lead us?
So much has happened in the last few years. Our nation looks and feels nothing like it did just a few short years ago. In fact, the pace of the last
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Promised Rest – Joshua 13-22

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I was sitting in a beach chair, looking out into the Gulf Coast, trying my best not to think about anything. We were a few weeks into our sabbatical, away from ministry, away from home and just trying to rest. A barge, carrying a large LCD billboard passed by advertising that perhaps, we beach bums could use a certain adult beverage to help us relax. 30 minutes later, the same barge, which
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The Surprising Mercy of God – Joshua 6-12

ALL THE GOOD PROMISES
The Lord Fights
Joshua 6-12

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“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character of all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” So says Richard Dawkins in his 2006 NYT Bestseller, The God Delusion. In the same book Dawkins argued that the …

The Nature of True Faith – Joshua 2-5

ALL THE GOOD PROMISES
The Nature of True Faith
Joshua 2-5
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• Did we land on the moon?
• Is the earth round or flat?
• Are birds real, or has the government replaced real birds with robotic spies?
There are hundreds of popular conspiracy theories floating around the world today. Here are a few more:
• Hollow-Earth Theory holds that under the crust of the earth is another world.
• Some
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The Lord is Present – Joshua 1

ALL THE GOOD PROMISES
The True Salvation of God
Joshua 1
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Promises have fallen on hard times. Many of us learn the saying which Benjamin Franklin supposedly coined, “Honesty is the best policy.” When I was a child, my father modified Franklin. “Honesty is the only policy.” A man’s word and his handshake used to mean something. Now we will out reams of contractual paperwork. Then we fill out another ream to
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The Local Church – Acts 20:28

THE LOCAL CHURCH
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Sometimes misinformation yields funny results. Think back to the 1989 Disney film, The Little Mermaid. Ariel, the main character is infatuated with life on land; out of the sea. She spends her time swimming from shipwreck to shipwreck collecting various gadgets, gizmos, and thingamabobs. As she collects various items, she brings them to a bird, named Scuttle, who is her only source of information about life above the waves.
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The Pastor – Acts 20:28; 1 Peter 5:1-3

FULL DISCLAIMER: Large portions of this sermon are taken from a sermon I heard Mark Dever preach to his own congregation, Capitol Hill Baptist. I listened to that sermon, by the same title, while on sabbatical from my own congregation, Lake Wylie Baptist, during the Summer of 2024. Mark’s sermon ministered so deeply to my heart that I took his structure, much of his exposition, and reworked it into a similar sermon for my own …

The Winepress of the Wrath of God: A Final Harvest on Earth – Revelation 14

THE WINEPRESS OF THE WRATH OF GOD:

A Final Harvest on Earth

Revelation: Every Eye Will See Him

Revelation 14

THE TEXT:

The text for the sermon today is Revelation 14. Our text can be found on page 1036. These are the words of God:

Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. 2 And I …

A Call for the Endurance & Faith of the Saints: The Two Beasts of Political Power & False Religion – Revelation 13

A CALL FOR THE ENDURANCE OF THE SAINTS

The Twin Beasts of Political Power and False Religion

Revelation: Every Eye Will See Him

Revelation 13

THE TEXT:

The text for the sermon today is Revelation 13. Our text can be found on page 1035. These are the words of God:

13 And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous …

They Loved Not Their Lives: The Woman, the Child, & the Dragon – Revelation 12

THEY LOVED NOT THEIR LIVES:

The Woman, the Dragon, & the Child

Revelation: Every Eye Will See Him

Revelation 12

THE TEXT:

The text for the sermon today is Revelation 12. Our text can be found on page 1035. These are the words of God:

 15 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. 2 …