Strategies for Escaping Babylon (Part One)
Sermon; Given 4/22/2023
Every form of government fashioned by carnal human beings, including democracies and constitutional republics, are riddled with fatal flaws.
Responding to God's Pruning Is Not Passive (Part Two)
Sermon; Given 3/18/2023
Briars, thistles, thorns, and weeds are visible emblems of sin or its consequences, which we must pull up by the roots for the balance of our physical life.
Responding to God's Pruning Is Not Passive (Part One)
Sermon; Given 2/18/2023
Our Heavenly Father, the Vine Dresser, has provided His junior partners some valuable tools to assist in pruning and cultivating His emerging spiritual crop.
God Expects a Return on His Investment (Part Seven)
Sermon; Given 12/31/2022
God has generously given us a set of tools that we must use for overcoming and building character, as well as edifying our spiritual siblings.
God Expects a Return on His Investment (Part Six)
Sermon; Given 10/29/2022
When we find our proper niche of service in the body of Christ, we will experience more joy and fun than a human being ought to be allowed.
God Expects a Return on His Investment (Part Five)
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon; Given 10/14/2022
The sanctification process is slow and methodical with no dazzling pyrotechnics. Each of us are given a basic set of gifts to serve our spiritual siblings.
God Expects a Return on His Investment (Part Four)
Sermon; Given 9/10/2022
Satan's malicious forked tongue has become a symbol of lies and falsehood, blending good and evil, truth and mendacity, into poisonous mixtures.
The Perils of Double-Mindedness (Part Two)
C.G.G. Weekly; Posted 9/9/2022
The Devil has convinced humanity that harboring a little recreational sin will not hurt as long as the 'job approval ratings' remain high.
The Perils of Double-Mindedness (Part One)
C.G.G. Weekly; Posted 9/2/2022
God makes it abundantly clear that double-mindedness or split-allegiances place our spiritual growth and development--and ultimately our salvation--in peril.
God Expects a Return on His Investment (Part Three)
Sermon; Given 8/13/2022
The natural gift, talent, or ability we receive at our birth provides the raw material God's Spirit uses to transform physical gifts into spiritual gifts.
God Expects a Return on His Investment (Part Two)
Sermon; Given 7/2/2022
God's promises to give us the desires of our hearts, His Holy Spirit, wisdom, and spiritual gifts to edify the Body all come with strings attached.
God Expects a Return on His Investment (Part One)
Sermon; Given 5/21/2022
We have the obligation to bear spiritual fruit, heeding the lessons of the cursing of the fig tree, and the parables of the barren fig tree and the talents.
God's Merciful Course Correction
Sermonette; Given 4/16/2022
Because of Israel's sinful heart, God has made a course correction, namely crafting a new and improved Covenant with a lengthy heart transplant operation.
Stewardship of God's Temple (Part Seven)
Sermon; Given 2/26/2022
The antidote to double-mindedness and distractions is single-minded focus on God's law through meditating God's word, thus guarding our hearts.
Stewardship of God's Temple (Part Six): Sunshine, Fresh Air, Cleanliness
Sermon; Given 1/15/2022
There are striking and insightful parallels between the physical benefits of sunshine, fresh air, and cleanliness and the yet unseen spiritual dimensions.
Stewardship of God's Temple (Part Five)
Sermon; Given 11/27/2021
Some have foolishly denigrated the value of physical exercise by taking Paul's admonition to Timothy totally and hopelessly out of context.
The Joy of Aging
Commentary; Given 11/13/2021
Studies show that instead of deteriorating, the senior brain, if it has been sufficiently exercised, actually grows stronger as it reaches 70 years old.
Stewardship of God's Temple (Part Four)
Sermon; Given 10/9/2021
One of the most marvelous gifts God has given humanity is water—having both physical and spiritual dimensions, serving as the symbol of God's Spirit.
Stewardship of God's Temple (Part Three)
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon; Given 9/23/2021
Humanity has been disobeying the laws of sleep and rest, leading to a cumulative sleep-debt which has shortened and deteriorated the quality of their lives.
Stewardship of God's Temple (Part Two)
Sermon; Given 7/31/2021
Even though individuals do not necessarily practice spiritual fasting for physical reasons, the physical benefits supply types that teach us spiritual things.