Author: davebunnell

Dave Bunnell, American pastor serving in Romania. Walk of Faith: free grace devotionals, Bible teaching, sermon vids, & evangelism

Psalm 15 – Who gets to be with God?

Today’s sermon at the church was a study of Psalm 15, which asks God who can live in His presence, and then records His answer. You can hear it here. The message audio streams in English and Romanian.
Psalm 15 msg Sep 11 11

What About Mary?

Today in Romania is an eastern orthodox holiday venerating Mary the mother of Jesus. What does God think of such a practice, and what does the Bible say? This message, in English and Romanian, is a sermon I preached on that topic two years ago, reposting today for the holiday.

They’re in our building

Mormon missionaries from America are starting to meet with people in the apartment building where we live in Cluj, Romania. So we’re trying to protect our neighbors, by distributing a brief document warning them about who the LDS missionaries actually are and what they believe. You can read the document we’re giving out here, or read it in English by clicking here.

Psalm 19 The Ways God Speaks – Sermon audio

God created a vast universe–for the purpose of making His glory known to you, so that you would seek Him and find Him, and enter into a relationship with Him that changes everything for you, for time and eternity. Today’s sermon at the church looks at that topic, through Psalm 19, as we continued our series of special Psalms for the summer. Click here to listen to the message, which is in English and Romanian.

Mormons waiting to worship the antichrist?

You may already be aware of the mormons’ belief that God is just a man like us who lived on another planet a life good enough to be exalted in power over this planet we live on. And because they don’t believe the blood of Jesus can cleanse us from all sin, they’ll still be here after the rapture. What will their response be to the antichrist then, when he fulfills scriptural prophecy setting himself up as God? Brigham Young’s sermon in the LDS church’s publication Journal of Discourses, vol. 11, might give you a clue. In it, Brigham says God is a, “holy and exalted man, a glorified, resurrected personage having a tangible body of flesh and bones…. If our Father and God should be disposed to walk through one of these aisles (at the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah), we should not know him from one of the congregation. You would see a man.”

New messages – Sermon on the Mount and Psalm 143

I no longer make blog posts for each individual sermon (although you can see an index of all the recordings by clicking above on the Sermon Audio tab if you wish), but want to post here two of my recent messages that we saw the Lord move especially in the hearts of people who heard them. The first is a gospel-based message on the closing passages of the Sermon on the Mount, which you can hear at this link. The second was this past Sunday’s message on Psalm 143, a psalm that speaks to the heart of every believer who has been through struggles. Click here to listen to that one.

Joseph Smith was wrong; you won’t be a god.

Mormons believe this world’s Maker was a man like us, whose previous world’s god made him one. On that belief they base their hope that they too will be made gods one day. Their hope will disappoint.
Isaiah 43:10b: “Before Me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after Me.”

Official Contest – Enter Now

I am now running a contest in this blog post. Entries will be taken until, but not after, Saturday May 21. Use the comments section to predict what false prophet/cult leader Harold Camping will say to explain himself to his followers on Sunday May 22, after the world hasn’t ended. Whoever posts a prediction of his words that is closest to what he actually says will win the right to replace him on his radio program thereafter. The winner still won’t be able to accurately predict the timing of Christ’s return, but he will have shown himself able to at least predict SOMETHING with accuracy.

Hell – a sermon

What is hell? What is it like? Who is in danger of going there? How can you be sure not to? The Bible gives clear answers to these and a few other eternally and infinitely important questions. And we looked at them all in today’s message on hell, which you can hear here. Recorded in English and Romanian, streaming audio.

On May 21, carry on with your regular business

Harold Camping, the deceived deceiver who is saying Christ will rapture us next Saturday, has made false date-predictions of that before. I remember in September 1994 when one of his followers stopped me by a lake where I was walking in Scranton, PA, where I lived at the time. The man pretended to need help and to find out what time it was, just to get me to stop so he could give me the literature predicting the rapture was just days away. Then he went on and did the same routine to others nearby.

But the fact that Camping has been wrong before isn’t the biggest reason not to believe him. There are two rock-solid biblical reasons to reject his teaching and warn his followers. 1) Jesus assured us we would not know the day or hour of His return, and the entirety of the Bible presents the rapture as an event that will come as an unannounced surprise for which Christ’s followers may be ready, but cannot know when it will happen. 2) In addition to setting a false date for the rapture, Camping’s other teachings about Bible prophecy are down-right batty, and there is no way anyone could read the Scriptures and arrive at the conclusions he is teaching. For example, he says that five months after the rapture, next October, God is going to destroy the earth and the entire universe. That is nothing like what the Bible says will happen after the rapture, and no elementary-school level student of the Bible thinks it is.

The followers of Camping are a cult to be shunned. Don’t be afraid as a follower of Christ to reject what he says when someone brings up the possibility of the May 21 rapture.