Amos (Part Twelve)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 6/14/1988
God will do what He must to bring Abraham's seed to repentance and salvation, including allowing crisis, hardship, humiliation, and calamity.
Amos (Part Eleven)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 6/7/1988
Ancient Israel had at the core of its religion an obsession to please the self at the expense of justice and the best interests of the disadvantaged.
Amos (Part Ten)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 5/17/1988
God requires a higher standard of righteous behavior from those who have consciously made a covenant with Him and are acquainted with His Law.
Amos (Part Nine)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 5/10/1988
Ancient Israel regarded Bethel, Gilgal, and Beersheba as a sacred shrines, but were not becoming spiritually transformed as a result of pilgrimages.
Amos (Part Eight)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 5/3/1988
Amos severely chides Israel for exalting symbolism over substance, superstitiously trusting in locations where significant historical events occurred.
Amos (Part Seven)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 4/19/1988
God, through His prophets, warns that He will chasten His people with increasing severity until they repent and begin to reflect His characteristics.
Amos (Part Six)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 4/12/1988
The favorite-son status of Israel was conditioned on accepting the terms of the covenant with God. Israel, then and now, has placed her trust in material things.
Amos (Part Five)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 3/22/1988
Modern Israel cannot see the connection between its own faithlessness to the covenant and the violence of society that mirrors her spiritual condition.
Amos (Part Four)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 3/15/1988
Amos, like a circling hawk, makes dire pronouncements on all of Israel's enemies but reserves the harshest judgment for Israel, who should have known better.
Amos (Part Three)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 3/1/1988
Gentile nations without God's revelation were held accountable for basic principles of humanity. God reserves the severest penalty for Judah and Israel.
Amos (Part Two)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 2/16/1988
The book of Amos is addressed to the ones who have made the new covenant with God. Having made the covenant, we must remember that privilege brings peril.
Amos (Part One)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 2/2/1988
Amos gives a series of dire warnings, beginning with Israel's enemies, but concluding with a blistering indictment on Israel herself for her hypocrisy.
Hebrews (Part Fifteen)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 1/26/1988
We dare not allow a root of bitterness to spring up in us as a result of trials - those burdens intended by God to strengthen us and perfect us.
Hebrews (Part Fourteen)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 1/19/1988
Like Jesus and other heroes of faith, we need to look beyond the present to the long term effects of the trials and tests we go though, seeing their value.
Childrearing (Part Six)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 1/16/1988
If we, as Christian parents, could shape and mold the minds of our children early, we could inoculate them against making the same mistakes that we did.
Hebrews (Part Thirteen)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 1/5/1988
Abraham, the father of the faithful, did not have a blind faith; it was based upon observation of God's proven track record of faithfulness.
Childrearing (Part Five)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 12/26/1987
We must not leave child rearing to chance, but ought to bend the tender twigs entrusted to us toward God's purpose, training our children in righteousness.
Hebrews (Part Twelve)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 12/15/1987
Hebrews 11 provides examples to bolster faith. The faith described is not blind, but is carefully developed from systematic analysis of available evidence.
Childrearing (Part Four)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 12/12/1987
Children do not initiate love but reflect it. If a child does not receive a convincing demonstration of this love, he will not become a conductor of love.
Hebrews (Part Eleven)
Bible Study/Sermon; Given 12/8/1987
Hebrews emphasizes the infinite superiority of Christ's priesthood and one-time sacrifice as contrasted to the repetitive Aaronic sacrifices.