I'll Be Honest

There is a Biblical way to grow in the love of God, and it is not to pull yourself up in your own strength and try to force yourself to love God more. Rather we have a great motivation to give ourselves to the Lord because of the mercies of God that are found in Christ’s death for us on the Cross. Preached in Iowa 12/04/2014 http://churchatstrawberrypoint.com/

What is it that causes some people to have such extraordinary devotion to Christ? It is because they understand more of who God is – more of what they were and more of what Christ has done to save them. It is the mercies of God. – Paul Washer Preached in Iowa 12/05/2014

O my Master, I have known Thee On the roads and on the sea. “Wherefore, then, hast thou not known Me Broken in Gethsemane?” “I would have thee follow, know Me Thorn-crowned, nailed upon the Tree. Canst thou follow? Wilt thou know Me All the way to Calvary?” – Amy Carmichael Session #1 from Fellowship Conference New England Mack Tomlinson pastors at http://www.providencedenton.org

In this video clip Paul Washer talks about the death of Jesus Christ and who Jesus Christ is. Why must Jesus be God in order to pay for our sins?

This sermon explores the parable of the ten virgins found in Matthew 25. There are those in our churches who are wisely waiting for the Lord's coming and there are others who are foolishly unprepared as that great day approaches. Many would love to debate as to what events will take place as we move closer and closer to the end, but it is interesting how the Lord is more interested in our conditio...

Since God is sovereign and is in utter and absolute control of everything, do the choices of men make any difference at all? What does the Bible say? Session #2 from Fellowship Conference New England (Due to audio recording issues the audio is low quality, we apologize.)

Why in Hebrews 11 is Rahab singled out for her past sin and called a prostitute? We see here that her background was so sinful that her title has followed her for 3,500 years. This shows us that there is hope for the most defiled among us, and that no matter what title has been attached to your name there is hope for you if you come to Jesus Christ. Session #3 from Fellowship Conference New Englan...

This sermon deals with the parable of the talents. He who owns all will one day come and each of us will give an account for what we did with all that Christ gave to us. This parable challenges us to be faithful to Christ and live life now as we will desire to have lived it when He appears.

How much do I really believe that without Him I can do nothing? Here is the answer: I believe it to the degree that I continue steadfastly in prayer. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. - Colossians 4:2 Jesse Barrington pastors at http://www.gracelifedallas.org/

We must be weaned off of dependence on man. We must first learn to cry out to the One who will never turn a deaf ear to our cries. If men can only help us partially with limited resources and wisdom, and yet God can help us 24/7 with unlimited resources and wisdom, than why would we ever depend on man rather than God? Session #6 of Fellowship Conference New England

I want to impress upon you the reality of an unseen world around us, a spiritual world that most people know absolutely nothing about. I want to talk to you about the way to access that unseen world. Then I want to talk to you about the results of accessing that unseen world. - Mike Morrow

We are to have Gospel centered relationships in the church — where I don't treat you based on how you deserve. Rather I treat you as Jesus has treated me in the Gospel by mercifully forgiving me; that is what Paul is calling us to in Colossians. Jesse Barrington pastors at http://www.gracelifedallas.org/

If your forgiveness is going to look like and be modeled after Jesus Christ, then you have to be a pursuer of people. We are to be pursuers of peace. Why? Because Jesus Christ pursued you. This is an excerpt from the full sermon, "Forgiving One Another As Christ".

True sloth is not simply when I am idle, but when I am idle with regards to Christ. Idleness towards Christ is the sum of wickedness. Excerpt from the full sermon: The Joy of the Lord (Part 7)

Christ is the absolute owner of everything. Go out to your car this afternoon and you just stop in your tracks and look at it and you recognize that’s His. Look at yourself in the mirror those eyeballs in your head those are His. Your hand, it’s His. He can take it away from you.

If you're a genuine Christian and your going through a dark, dark place in your life, understand that you will yet praise Him. There is light at the end of this dark, dark place. You know what I found in my life? Most of the time, when I can't find the Lord, He is right where I left Him.

I've found out that the Lord will give you a test, and if you don't pass it, He takes you through a course again and you've got to go back to the same test. You might as well get it right the first time. And then after awhile, after a few years, He gives you a refresher course. – Mike Morrow

The last portion of Matthew 25 is not a parable, but an actual description of Judgement Day. Few passages in our Bibles show so plainly the nature of those good works which characterize the saved, which are utterly absent in the lost.

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. – Ephesians 4:29

For the very first time in my life I realized I was a sinner before God and that Christ was who the Bible said He was. He really was the Son of God who had died on the cross for my sins. In faith, I cried out to Him to save me. What happened next has never left me. It seemed to me that a great white hand reached down into me and took out all the sin and filth I was guilty of. I knew that God had f...

Paul said, "The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet." What a statement! God has so purposed to take weak instruments like us and crush Satan's head under our feet. One of the ways this happens is by us trusting the LORD in prayer and praying in a way that is dangerous to the devil.

When revival and true conversion happens, it is not because of some person taking clever initiative and having a new idea, but it is because God came in power. We need to be people who pray in faith and humble ourselves before God and lay a hold of Him.

We often say, “If I could understand something, then I would believe it.” Yet God says that when you believe something, then you will understand it. Hebrews 11:3 says it is, “By faith we understand that the worlds were created by the word of God…” So faith is: God said this. That settles it. As we learn to not trust in our own ability, we then constantly live on the reality of Christ living His li...

The path of faith that Abraham walked on led him to die to what God had promised him. The Lord told him to take his only son Isaac, who was the joy of his heart, and burn him up on an altar. The life of faith led him to die to what was near and dear to him, yet in the end God gave him back his son. We see that the life of faith is not easy, but one of dying to that which is dear to us and entrusti...

If my heart is desperately wicked and evil as all things, I have as much chance of obeying as Israel. I need a new heart. And I got news for you: I have one! God made me new. He saved me. He took my heart, that was always bent on evil and only desired evil continually, all the time. He took that heart out of me and He gave me a heart of flesh. – Ryan Fullerton