Gospel Living

Last Sunday's Sermon: Repent and Believe the Gospel | Mark 1:14–15 Shaun Marksbury | Morning Service | 29 January, 2017 Mark, like Matthew and Luke, propels us forward roughly a year into Jesus’s ministry. He and His disciples have been baptizing people for repentance, but with the arrest of John the Baptist, they move northward with a message. John 4 records all of this, including the fact that Jesus traveled through Samaria and shared the Good News of God with them. Jesus now comes to Galilee with those same gospel tidings. This text answers two key questions about Jesus’s preaching—why and what He preached. I. Why did Jesus preach the gospel? A. The time is fulfilled B. The kingdom is at hand II. What did Jesus preach about the gospel of God? A. We must repent B. We must believe the gospel Video https://youtu.be/omnCAfMKgfY Audio http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=21171511283 Notes (P...

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While some churches do not, many seek to honor God by making accurate Bible teaching a priority.  However, it is possible even for sound, expositional churches to falter in fellowship; those who begin well sometimes finish poorly.  How can a church family to grow in its love for one another?  How can they experience more unity in Christ?  The Apostle Paul calls us back to basic gospel principles.  He reminds us that we must first have a proper understanding of where we stand in relation to Christ, in our shared past, present, and future.  In this way alone, we can avoid the prejudice and presumption that may otherwise poison true agape within the fellowship. This message was preached at Cornerstone Community Church on December 15, 2013, based on Ephesians 2:1–10. Listen to the MP3 download here .

Here is the video from my sermon on Philippians 4:6-9 at Lynton Missionary Church in Lynwood, CA, on June 17, 2012. Unfortunately, the recorder gave out about thirty minutes into the message, but don't be anxious: you can get the lost fifteen minutes from the manuscript below. od comforts us in the fact that our heroes in the faith are human.  We only need to think of David, who Scripture records was a man after God’s own heart—someone who stood up to Goliath’s bullying with the strength and faith unlike any of his countrymen.  Even so, he was human.  We remember his failures as a father.  We remember his failures in leadership.  We remember his adulterous relationship with Bathsheba.  We remember his murder of her husband.  If after all of this he is remembered as a man after God’s own heart in Acts 13:22, God’s grace provides hope for us all. There is another time when he stumbled in his faith.  Before Saul died in batt...

Here's the sermon I preached this morning from Leviticus 20:7-8.  We examined two truths from the passage about Israel’s call to be holy in order to understand how it applies to us in light of the Gospel: Holiness is Separation Unto God (v. 7) Holiness is Life in Light of God (v. 8)

Part 1   Part 2   Part 3 Part 4: __________________________________________________________ o review, Peter seems to be obsessed with the events surrounding the flood. He seems to believe that they teach something useful, something comforting to those in pain and trials. Is the flood important? If the flood account were not true, then these things would be of little consequence to hurting believers.  Moreover, we readers today would take even less solace in what Peter has to say. Poor Simon Peter, always with his foot in his mouth.  Right?  Not at all. We went a different route and did not study the angels, but let us turn to them once again.   If the flood is a real event in human history, and  if we can see the effects of it in the world around us, then the story of angels cohabiting with women is probably factual as well. If your view of the world is defined by Scripture, then you are thinking like Peter (or, the Holy Spirit) wan...

Part 1 can be found here.  And here is Part 2 . And here is Part 3: __________________________________________________ hen we look at relief maps of the oceans, they tell us of the home many of these flood waters found.  Water sloshed across continents, sliding into the present oceans and dug deep.  It would have taken quite some time for the continents to dry, and perhaps this massive runoff had something to do with the slowing of plates, leaving behind rivers, formations, and even earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamies, to as a result of the catastrophe.  Perhaps the change in the positions of the continents, opening the Atlantic Ocean, also opened the heavens to the fierce hurricanes that can form there.  More on that in just a minute. Some might ask about those horizontal stratas in the first picture of the Grand Canyon.  Don't those take millions of years to deposit?  Sure, at current rates, we can see a single line forming slowly, a...

Continued from Part 1 . _______________________________________________ hy did God flood the earth? For the purposes of this question, it is important to know that the group known as the "sons of God" in Genesis 6 is that group of fallen angels to which Peter refers. There is probably the same demonic group the people were trying to contact with the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11. However, we cannot gloss over this: each and every person on earth had become wicked.   This is saying something, because Scripture already teaches that every person is a sinner, so (as I tell the youth when I teach them), this is bad x10!   EVERY thought of man’s heart was ONLY evil continually (Gen 6:5). As an aside, this is another concern for us and our view of the flood.  Scripture says that we are approaching a time like the days of Noah once again, and the Lord will intervene as dramatically as He did before -- only without water this time. His use of water last time was a...