Charge to our Graduates from My Sickbed

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My beloved colleagues in the Gospel of God's grace, and graduates: I congratulate you and your families on this remarkable achievement. You will look back upon these days as sacred times when the Lord fulfilled His promises to you as you accepted your Continue Reading

Discerning God’s Call for Your Life

One of my favorite stories about calling comes from south Louisiana. A Pentecostal preacher was having some chest pains and was rushed to the hospital. It was quickly determined by the medical personnel that he needed open-heart surgery. So they put him Continue Reading

Hollyhocks, Outhouses and VBS

Summer is here! A few weeks ago we had another wonderful series of graduations at our RTS campuses, and now summer school has started. General Assemblies and Synods are underway or now history, and vacations planned when snow was on the ground are now Continue Reading

The Interior Reactor of Ministry: A Charge to RTS Charlotte (Psalms 116:16-19)

The energy to minister comes from many places. Not all of them are good. We can minister out of ambition, or self inflated estimation of our gifts, or pride, or religious duty tied to a supposed righteousness coming from our works. We can minister out of Continue Reading

Remembering the Legacy of D. James Kennedy in My Life and Ministry

A producer and film crew from Truth In Action Ministries – formally Coral Ridge Ministries — came to our Charlotte campus today to shoot some footage for a special production on remembering the late Dr. D. James Kennedy. The thoughtful visit gave me Continue Reading

Let Us Wake Before We Die: Saying Your Prayers on Easter Sunday

And so it is Easter. We read from the familiar passages, but may the Lord of life come upon us in a surprisingly new way this year! Listen as if for the first time for the inerrant,infallible Word of the living God! But as you listen, it is this Continue Reading

Christmas Eve Order and Bulletin Sample

Christmas Eve worship is one of the most beautiful and inspiring times in the life of a congregation and in the ministry of a pastor. The service may be seen by the pastor as challenging because everyone knows that you are going to say something about Continue Reading

What Christmas is Really All About

                      A Christmas Sermon from Titus 2:11-14; 3:3-7 We are all familiar with the Christmas movie “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.” Well, there has been an outbreak of Continue Reading

THE TRUE BELIEVER’S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Leviticus 25:10  Galatians 2:15-21 The famous words are read: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and Continue Reading

Old Spice, Hai Karaté and the Aroma of God

Then burn the entire ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the LORD by fire.  Exodus 29.18  For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.  Continue Reading