What is Your Passion in Life? Do you serve a worthy master?

What is your passion in life? A passion for many things enslaves us to unworthy masters. A passion for Christ sets us free from being controlled by lesser things, and lets us become servants of a Master who earned that place in our lives, buying it at an infinite price. What’s more, He makes His servants shareholders in the glory that is coming to Him for all that He produces through our labor for Him.

Live streaming video of our home Bible fellowship

At 6:30 pm today Romanian time (11:30 am US Eastern time) you can view and hear our home fellowship Bible study here.
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Walk in victory, not defeat

How does a Christian learn to walk in victory, instead of continual defeat and falling into sin? Can victory in the war against the flesh and its desires truly be won in this life? Today’s message from Galatians looked at these issues, and at some truths every Christian needs to understand, but many don’t. The message was part 4 of a series on The Holy Spirit, and you can hear it here, in English and Romanian. Hope it blesses you.

2 Peter 2:1-11 Life and Godliness

Tonight at the home fellowship we began a study through 2 Peter with an exciting study on life and godliness and how they have been obtained for us. You can hear the study here, in English and Romanian.

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.
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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.”