Sermon of the week: Men who met God

A.W. Tozer is one of my favorite authors (Philip Keller and J. Vernon McGee are probably my tops). Here is one of his messages that you can listen to at your leisure. Click here to go to the sermon.
We could definitely use more men who have met God in our world today!

Sermon of the week: 5 Steps to Genuine Revival

Here is my latest sermon recommendation for TGP- 5 Steps to Genuine Revival. This message was preached by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley. I'm most familiar with him from his books, I don't think I've ever heard him preach. Real revival is something that is lacking sorely in our world today. I believe much of the revival we hear about wasn't real revival, but an emotional event. The Great Awakening had lasting impacts and other revivals like it had the same impact on society at those times. I think we all could use some Great Awakening revivals in our lives and I think this message will be a help to you. The file is only 3.3 mb and the sermon lasts about 28 minutes.

May God bless your services tomorrow.

Source: Sermon Audio

Sermon Highlight: Why Won't They Listen? Reaching A Lost Culture

It can be a very difficult task in ministry: reaching the lost with the Gospel of Christ. If the truth be told, we can get discouraged when our pews or Sunday School classes don't grow. Ken Ham, Answers in Genesis Founder, has a message entitled "Why Won't They Listen? Reaching A Lost Culture". I think this message will be a help to you and especially for those of you struggling to reach that lost culture.

I plan on mentioning a sermon once a week that would encourage or challenge all of us. I will be listening to this messages and then recommending them to you. I do not plan on having several out in a week, rather just mentioning one a week. The reason is I know many of you are busy with your ministry, so it would not be a help to you at all recommend several messages a week. Sometimes they will be in the audio format and other times they may be in a written format. I truly hope that these messages will be a help for you.

Reading speeches of former Presidents

I studying for a message that I am preaching this Sunday night and came across the farewell speech of President George Washington. It's a good read and quite interesting to hear what our first President wished the Nation to do. Here is a an excerpt of it below and you can read the full speech here.

"As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear. The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should cooperate. To facilitate to them the performance of their duty, it is essential that you should practically bear in mind, that towards the payment of debts there must be Revenue; that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties), ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate.
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and Morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt, that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages, which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its Virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices ?"