Author: Stan Cox

Sermon Title: Lot – How to Make a Terrible Decision

This sermon by Heath Rogers establishes that bad influences (in this case the men of Sodom) can corrupt our thinking and judgment to the point that we make bad decisions. Great lesson for young people.

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Sermon Title: God’s Eternal Principles

Heath Rogers preached this excellent sermon establishing from scripture certain principles which have been true from the beginning of time.

Unfortunately, the audio did not come out. However, Heath has supplied us with the Powerpoint file of the sermon.

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In a spirited debate that touched on topics ranging from slavery to the Progressive Era in American politics, supporters of same-sex marriage yesterday urged the state’s highest court to disqualify a controversial ballot question to ban gay matrimony starting in 2008.

A lawyer for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders argued before the Supreme Judicial Court that Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, in approving the ballot question, flouted a provision in the state constitution that blocks citizen-generated questions seeking the ”reversal of a judicial decision.” The SJC legalized gay marriage in Massachusetts in November 2003.

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Sermon Title: Godliness

Heath Rogers preached this lesson regarding the necessity of adding to our faith the Christian grace of Godliness (as per 2 Peter 1). This was as good a lesson as I have heard on the subject of Godliness, and I commend the lesson to you.

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Sermon Title: “He Added No More”

Heath Rogers’ sermon. A proper respect for the authority of God’s word will preclude us from adding to the commandments delivered for us. God has spoken, we must accept His word.

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Sermon Title: Proper Attitudes Toward Obedience

Heath Rogers preached this lesson, examining the proper attitudes we must have toward the commands of the God of heaven.

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Sermon Title: The Conversion of the Philippian Jailer

Heath Rogers, visiting from Edna, TX, preached a wonderful lesson on the conversion of the Philippian Jailer in Acts 16. This first prinicple lesson establishes clearly what each person must do to obtain redemption under the law of Christ.

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Sermon Title: Bible Baptism

Rather than allowing denominationalists to explain away the nature and necessity of baptism, we let the Bible define it and explain its place in God’s scheme of Redemption.

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Sermon Title: The Greatest Need

The greatest need for humanity is not peace on earth, or food and clothing. It is the preaching of the gospel of Christ. As Christians, we are the ones who have been charged to spread the word of God to the lost.

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Baal, or Ba’al was the principal male god of the Canaanites. Actually, the term Baal means “Lord” in the Hebrew language, and was used in the Old Testament in reference to many different gods, including Jehovah.

In fact, in the days of Hosea the worship of idols had become so prolific that God equated the unfaithfulness of Israel with whoredom.

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In the first 1,000 years of Christianity, only monks and priests knew how to read and write. Every one else was illiterate and ignorant and was totally dependent on the monks and priests for information on and explanation of the world around them.

The opening of universities in Europe starting in the 12th century, the invention of movable-type printing in Germany in the 15th, the spread of universal education starting in the 19th… democratized to some extent the portals of knowledge.

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In about 512 B.C., as Darius I of Persia led his armies north of the Black Sea, the Scythians sent him a message comprised of a mouse, a frog, a bird, and five arrows. Darius summoned his captains. “Our victory is assured,” he announced. “These arrows signify that the Scythians will lay down their arms; the mouse means the land of the Scythians will be surrendered to us; the frog means that their rivers and lakes will also be ours; and the Scythian army will fly like a bird from our forces.”

But an adviser to Darius said, “The Scythians mean by these things that unless you turn into birds and fly away, or into frogs and hide in the waters, or into mice and burrow for safety in the ground, you will all be slain by the Scythian archers.” Darius took counsel and decided that the second was the right interpretation, and beat a retreat!

Today in the Word, January 1992, p.22.

It does matter how you interpret scripture. There is the true interpretation of a passage, and then there are other interpretations which men assert to their own peril. We can know the truth, but we must set aside our own preconceptions, and let the word of God say what it says! “These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so” (Acts 17:11).

This sermon was preached to the West Side congregation to explain why the elders determined to cease monetary support of brother Bobby Holmes. The elders, together with brother Stan Cox had studied on several occasions with brother Holmes, differed with him regarding his teaching of divorce, and asked brother Cox to address the subject, and explain the events which led to the ending of his support. The sermon is, in part, an examination of brother Holmes’ teaching on the subject.

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A majority of Canadians celebrated Easter over the weekend but not all of them went to church.

While 73 per cent of Canadians responding to a poll by Ipsos-Reid believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross and was resurrected to eternal life and 62 per cent agreed that through his life, death and resurrection, God provided the way for the forgiveness of sins, just 17 per cent said they attend church regularly.

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At the height of her fame as the other woman in the Ivana and Donald Trump breakup, Marla Maples spoke of her religious roots. She believed in the Bible, she told interviewers, then added the disclaimer, “but you can’t always take [it] literally and be happy.”

Chuck Colson
The Body, p. 124

Certainly an honestly stated sentiment, and one that is fairly typical of our day. You can’t take the Bible literally and be happy, because the Bible condemns your ungodliness! Too many, when faced with the choice of either ceasing their sin, or rejecting the Bible, choose to reject the Bible. “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon” (Luke 16:13).