The Promise Pastor Ian Potts Audio sermon The Lord’s Day – 01/02/2011 44 min | Galatians 3:11-29 Galatians 3:11-2911 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth…
Vain Traditions: Gravesite Ancestral Worship
Gravesite Ancestral Worship The Ritualistic Veneration of the Dead by Curt Wildy It is sad to see the degree to which ancestor worship and other forms of paganism have entered into what is commonly called Christianity in our day. What unregenerate men and women believe to be good Christian practice is often nothing more than legalism,…
The Lord Our Only Sabbath – Part Three (B)
The Seventh-Day Sabbath The Old Testament Covenant and Sign between God and National Israel by Curt Wildy Continued from Part Three (A) Why was the Seventh-day Sabbath Rest given to them? I now aim to cover the reasons why God gave the Seventh-day Sabbath rest to Israel. 1. Given as a type of the true…
The Lord Our Only Sabbath – Part Three (A)
The Seventh-Day Sabbath The Old Testament Covenant and Sign between God and National Israel by Curt Wildy Introduction to Part Three After a lengthy gap in post between parts, and after further consideration, I wanted to come back to this issue of the Sabbath. This third part (of four, Lord willing) will cover the applicability…
Some Thoughts On An Article Titled "Achan in the Camp"
When I first read the following, it caused me much distress; it could not have hit more sharply than if the author wrote it with me personally in mind. Like the Apostles, save Judas, the Christian may sincerely ask “is it I Lord?” when reading or hearing of those who profess the Gospel of free and…
Eternal Sonship vs. Incarnation Sonship — A Matter of Damnable Heresy? (Part II)
A Third Position? As stated in my previous post on this subject, I started out with the belief that the Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God in both His deity as well as in His humanity (a belief that the Incarnation Sonship advocates reject, in that they affirm His deity but not 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:…
Eternal Sonship vs. Incarnation Sonship — A Matter of Damnable Heresy?
Is The Denial of The Eternal Sonship of the Second Person of the Triune Godhead A Matter of Damnable Heresy This is the question that I both raise and hope to answer for myself as God enables. I am currently trying to find the works and writings of such Incarnation Sonship proponents as James Wells (of…
The Outcasts of Israel
The Outcasts of Israel Mr. Ian Potts Audio sermon The Lord’s Day – 01/17/2010 52 min | Isaiah 11:12; Psalm 147:2 Isaiah 11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. 11…
Why The Emphasis On "Experimental" And "Experiential"
Why the Emphasis on Experimental and Experiential? Some may wonder what I mean by, or why I emphasize so much, the words Experimental and Experiential (the two being synonymous) when speaking of the Christian’s walk.The answer is simple, anything found in the Bible that is not experimentally applied to the Christian at some point in His…