Playlist: Perishing (topic)

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John 3:16 in Context

Sermon by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

In the discourse recorded in John 3, perishing stands as the direct alternative to receiving everlasting life. Jesus explains that God sent His only begotten Son because of love for the world, so that whoever believes in Him should not perish. This statement supplies the reason the Son of Man had to be lifted up, linking the …


Limited Atonement

Sermon by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

The prospect of atonement and salvation is available to everybody, but only those called by the Father—not by an evangelical altar call—are eligible.


Essential Characteristics of Our Calling

Sermon by Martin G. Collins

Doctrine and practice be evenly balanced. If the behaviors are detached from principle and doctrine, the weightier matters of the law will be neglected.


Parable of the Lost Sheep

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Christ shows His compassion and concern for those who have become distracted and fallen into error, providing an example to us to show mercy to others.


God of the Living

Sermonette by Clyde Finklea

Jesus proclaimed that God was not the God of the dead but the living, identifying Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who were physically dead and in their graves.


Who Is the 'God of This World'? (Part Two)

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As Moses had to veil his luminous face, so, metaphorically, the God of this age mercifully blinds carnal individual for now because light hurts their eyes.


Ecclesiastes Resumed (Part Twenty-Two)

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

Trials are a means to produce spiritual growth, unless we resort to super-righteousness, straining to please God by exalting our works.


Deuteronomy (Part 7)

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

Sanctification is an incremental process in which we systematically destroy the sin within us as our forebears were asked to destroy the inhabitants of Canaan.