Sunday Leftovers (5/15/11)

Toxicologists Frank LoVecchio and Jeffrey Suchard at the Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Phoenix did some research on rattlesnakes a few years ago and came up with this conclusion: Dead rattlesnakes can bite. They discovered that 15% of Arizona rattlesnake attacks occurred after the snakes “had been mortally shot, bludgeoned, or even beheaded.” A […]

Sunday Leftovers (5/1/11)

In 1965 the future looked extraordinarily bright. Man was four short years from walking on the moon. The world was on the brink of a technological explosion — computer, microwave, laser, and communication advances were certain to revolutionize every facet of the way we lived. So a U.S. Senate Subcommittee in 1965 predicted that by […]

Sunday Leftovers (4/24/11)

The resurrection means that Christ is alive, and those who believe in Christ also live (1 Cor. 15:12-20). The resurrection means that we can rejoice in what we have in Christ even when we suffer loss in the world (1 Peter 1:6-7). The resurrection means that when others would say, “curse God,” we can say, […]

Sunday Leftovers (4/10/11)

Given the responsibility of the father to nurture and disciple his children, Pastor Lance Quinn has written a set of “Ten Commandments of Parenting.” These encompass fundamental attributes and actions of a godly father: I will seek, as God enables me, to show my children how a husband loves his wife, as Christ loved the […]

Sunday Leftovers (4/3/11)

Many times I have had someone make a brief comment after a Sunday morning worship service or over a Wednesday evening fellowship meal that goes something like this: “Pray for me, I’m going to visit my folks next week…” Or, “My kids are coming to visit this weekend; will you pray for us?” There are […]

Sunday Leftovers (3/27/11)

John says, “I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth” (3 John 4). Paul expresses great gratitude and joy for the faith of the believers in Ephesus (1:15-16) and Colossae (1:3-5) and the obedience of the Romans to Christ (16:19). All heaven, the angels, and God Himself […]

Sunday Leftovers (3/20/11)

David Sharp was 34 when he died five years ago. And depending upon whom you ask, his death was either unavoidable or preventable. The British citizen was attempting a climb up Mt. Everest in May of 2006 when he died in a shallow snow cave from a lack of oxygen. That he died, in one […]

Sunday Leftovers (3/6/11)

A few years ago, Money magazine reported that “When researchers at Duke, Harvard, and Northwestern asked investors how their mutual funds performed last year compared with Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, a third claimed their funds outperformed the market by at least 5 percent. One in six said their funds fared better by more than […]

Sunday Leftovers (2/27/11)

The gospel is for everyday. Every believer should preach the gospel to himself everyday. The gospel which saves us is also the gospel which sanctifies us. This is not merely the suppositions of men; the apostle Paul wrote in Col. 1:6 that the gospel “has come to you, just as in all the world also […]

Sunday Leftovers (2/20/11)

Having spent five sermons on the topic of marriage from Ephesians 5:22-33, here are a number of principles that I found particularly important and compelling as we made our way through these verses: The commands for a wife to submit (v. 22) and a husband to love (v. 25) are a choice. They are not […]

Sunday Leftovers(2/13/11)

Blogger Ian Vaillancourt recently wrote: Give us men! This is what our world needs. Men who follow Christ and lead in the home and in the church…by laying down their lives for the men and women they lead. Give us men! Give us churches filled with these kinds of men who show the beauty of […]

Sermon leftovers (1/30/11)

To answer the question “How does a man love his wife?” the question “How has Christ loved the church?” must be answered first. What follows is a list of some of the ways in which Christ has loved His church to accomplish her purity and sanctification (please note that this list is not exhaustive). He […]

Sunday Leftovers (1/23/11)

Husbands, love your wives. Those are easy words to speak — “sure, I love my wife…” we might quickly say. But if the pressure in the crucible increases, what will be revealed? If repeated slights and misunderstandings are left unresolved and accumulate over years, will I still love her? If significant, trust-violating sin intrudes the […]

Sunday Leftovers (1/16/11)

In exhorting wives to submit to the leadership of their husbands (Eph. 5:22-24), Paul reminds readers that submission is not just to her husband, but to the Lord (vv. 21, 22, 24). And he also reminds wives that there is a relationship between their submission and the way the church submits to Christ. In other […]

Comforts when suffering

The path it takes is various, but one day soon, suffering will bypass a courteous request for entry and will intrude on your home and life. Perhaps it will take the commonly used roadway called personal sin. Through the impact of your own sinful choices and desires, you will suffer. Or perhaps it will take […]