Rocky Mount Baptist Church - Sermon Audio

Claiming that miracles are impossible before examining the evidence is evidence of bias. Biased people will never find the truth. Truth-seekers and truly open-minded people examine the evidence first and then make a judgment.

How to avoid drinking the Kool-Aid

The first step in changing your life is to realize that you can't.

Receiving and obeying God's Word softens the heart whereas rejecting and disobeying God's Word hardens the heart.

Gospel inoculation is a state of knowing the Gospel in its entirety but refusing to obey it in its totality leading to self-deception.

Jesus Christ = Truth

Guard your heart because it is the fountainhead of your life.

God's love is so extensive that He can make friends out of foreigners.

Family knows the old and the new you. Lead them to Christ through humility and Christ-likeness.

Don't be a one-armed apologist.

Real friends don't let friends go to Hell. "Friendship must be cemented by piety (devotion to Christ). A wicked man cannot be a true friend; and, if you befriend their wickedness, you show that you are wicked yourselves. Pretend not to love them, if you favor their sins, and seek not their salvation. By favoring their sins, you will show your enmity (opposition) to God; and then how can you love your brother? If you be their best friends, help them against their worst enemies. And think not all sharpness inconsistent with love: parents correct their children, and God himself 'chastens every son whom he receiveth.' Augustine saith, 'Better it is to love even with the accompaniment of severity, than to mislead by (excess of) lenity.'" – Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor

How do you talk to people who don't come from a Christian background?

Fish with what you have for what has worth. Becoming a "fisher of men" is a transformation of the mind and heart so that your life-aim becomes leading people to faith in Jesus Christ.

How do you talk to people who don't come from a Christian background?

Contentment requires being counter-cultural.

God's mission is to form one people from all peoples for His glory and worship.

Christ = Contentment / Consumerism = Crisis

Jesus Christ is the most influential person in history.

Hardly anyone would dare to argue with this all-too-familiar phrase about Christmas: It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year! But why? What is it that makes the Christmas season so special? ​This musical is set in a small town square as a local church choir gets ready for their annual Christmas presentation. Through the eyes of a local street vendor, several heart-felt stories are retold to communicate just what makes this annual event so special. When an extraordinary selfless gift is provided by a doctor to a young boy, his need for surgery is met before she will attend to her own immediate need for treatment and surgery. And as a newspaper reporter publicizes the boy's plight, he is amazed and surprised to see how God moves in the hearts of the community as they show love to a total stranger. Giving is what Christmas is all about – God sending His one and only Son to bring us a gift we did not deserve – the free gift of salvation!

Jesus faced evil. Jesus absorbed evil. Jesus is coming to destroy evil.