Not of Man Pastor Ian Potts Audio sermon The Lord’s Day – 10/31/2010 52 min | Galatians 1:11 Galatians 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. 11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel…
Category: 03. Gospel Adorning
The Absolute Sovereignty and Purpose of God in the Life of Men
The Absolute Sovereignty and Purpose of God in the Life of Men by Curt Wildy From the person of the lowest estate to the person of the highest, the thoughts, wills, emotions, and actions of men are all under the complete control of God. Were it not so, God would not be, and could not be, the…
Grounded and Settled
Grounded and Settled Mr. Ian Potts Audio sermon The Lord’s Day – 01/18/2009 41 min | Colossians 1:23 Colossians 1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:…
What Do I Know?
What Do I Know? Socrates is associated with the following quote “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” When it comes to matters of faith, I do not normally quote Socrates, or any other unregenerate man (no matter how famous they are or esteemed they…
Legalism: Is It Sinful For Women To Wear Pants?
Is It Sinful For Women To Wear Pants? Pants: articles of clothing or a tool of Satan? The encroachment of legalism in our day, as in days past, is no laughing matter. Left unchecked, it can lead to a Pharisaic mindset and the eventual manifestation of dead works and idolatry within a once faithful congregation. Even amongst believers, it…
Different Thoughts on the Use of Means in Bringing God’s People to Understanding
What Samuel Eyles Pierce thought of the present condition of Gospel Ministers “I WOULD not say of every thing I deliver, this is as true as God is true. The apostles could. I am not an ambassador for Christ. I have no immediate message or commission from Him; nor do I believe any one man…
Avoiding Mischievous and Unkind Words
Mischievous and Unkind Words The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void…
Avoiding Flattering and Talebearing Words
Flattering and Talebearing Words …..For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: II Corinthians 12:20 01. Leviticus 19:16 Thou shalt not go up…
Avoiding Lying and other Deceptive Words
Lying and Deceptive Words A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.Proverbs 19:9 01. Psalm 5:4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. 5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. 6…
Avoiding Vain, Proud and Boastful Words
Vain, Proud and Boastful Words Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus(Philippians 2:3-5)…
Spiritual Wrestlings 