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Tag Archives: John MacArthur
Sermon builder: Preparing a sermon.
The following is the complete Sermon Builder found here on the Shepherd’s Conference website: Welcome to the Sermon Builder – a step-by-step guide for expository sermon preparation. While the Sermon Builder will not write someone’s sermon for them, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Encouragement, Pilgrim's Corner
Tagged Bible, Blog, Blogging, church, Faith, God, Jesus, John MacArthur, Preaching, Religion, Sermon, Sermons
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“Salvation MUST Be Evidenced by Works”–Who Said That??
You will be shocked–SHOCKED!!–at who was one of the earliest promoters of “Lordship Salvation”. That is, the fact that if one is a Christian, they will grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, and their lives … Continue reading
A fitting rebuke.
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm
Tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Joel Osteen, John MacArthur, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology
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Jonathan Edwards taught “Salvation by Works”!!!
All the “Easy-Believers®” who want to toss men like John MacArthur and Paul Washer under the bus for teaching that the life of a true Christian will be radically different from a Non-Christian because the believer’s life will be marked … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Jesus IS Lord, New Age Nonsense, Purpose Driven Lie, Theology
Tagged "salvation by works", Easy Believism, greasy grace, John MacArthur, Jonathan Edwards, Lordship of Jesus Christ, Lordship Salvation, Paul Washer, Phil Johnson, Puritans, Purpose Driven Drivel, Purpose-drivel, RC Sproul, salvation unto works, The Religous Affections, Tim Conway, Works
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The poorest man in the world.
The following sobering piece comes from the Fruin family currently serving as missionaries in Mexico: _____________________________ The Meeting It was dusk on Friday evening as we were driving up the dirt road that we call the short-cut to our home that … Continue reading
Posted in Encouragement, Evangelism, Missions & Martyrs
Tagged Apologetics, atonement, Bible, Blogging, christian, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Poverty, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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Sermon of the week: “A Tale of Two Sons” by John MacArthur.
Your sermon of the week is a wonderful exposition of the parable of the prodigal son like you’ve never heard before, entitled A Tale of Two Sons. This sermon by John MacArthur was delivered at the 2006 Resolved Conference. I … Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, atonement, Bible, Blogging, christian, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Parable, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, The Prodigal Son, Theology
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Phil Johnson on MacArthur and “Lordship Salvation”
In the whole debate over “Lordship Salvation”, John MacArthur has had a big red target painted on him, and those who teach “easy-believism” have strung him up and flung him into the depths of Hell because of one paragraph of … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Encouragement, False Christs, Jesus IS Lord, New Age Nonsense, Purpose Driven Lie, Theology
Tagged "Hard to Believe", blasphemers, Easy Believism, Grace Community Church, greasy grace, heretics, John MacArthur, Lordship of Jesus Christ, Lordship Salvation, Phil Johnson, Salvation
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Sermon of the week: “A Theology of Creation” by John MacArthur.
Two weeks ago we concluded our evolution / creation series by John MacArthur entitled The Battle for the Beginning. As a follow-up to that series I present this week’s sermon of the week by John MacArthur entitled A Theology of … Continue reading
Posted in Creation vs Evolution, Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, atonement, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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Sermon of the week: “The Implications of Evolution” by John MacArthur.
Your sermon of the week is the final installment from John MacArthur’s series The Battle for the Beginning, entitled The Implications of Evolution. We’ve been featuring this series every other week since May and you can find the whole series … Continue reading
Posted in Creation vs Evolution, Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, atonement, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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Sermon of the week: “Evangelism” by Kirk Cameron.
Your sermon of the week is Evangelism by Kirk Cameron from the 2005 Resolved Conference.
Posted in Evangelism, Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, atonement, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Kirk Cameron, Religion, Resolved, Resolved Conference, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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Sermon of the week: “Creation, Day 6″ by John MacArthur.
Your sermon of the week is Creation, Day 6 by John MacArthur (three parts) from his series The Battle for the Beginning. We’ve been featuring this series every other week. The next installment will be in two weeks. Creation, Day … Continue reading
Posted in Creation vs Evolution, Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, atonement, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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Sermon of the week “Creation, Day 5″ by John MacArthur.
Your sermon of the week is Creation, Day 5 by John MacArthur from his series The Battle for the Beginning. We’ve been featuring this series every other Thursday. The next installment will be in two weeks.
Posted in Creation vs Evolution, Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, atonement, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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Sermon of the week: “Creation, Day 4″ by John MacArthur.
Your sermon of the week is Creation, Day 4 by John MacArthur from his series The Battle for the Beginning. We’ve been featuring this series every other week. The next installment will be in two weeks.
Posted in Creation vs Evolution, Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, atonement, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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God’s view on Homosexuality
by John MacArthur So it isn’t long after God has ordained one man for one woman for life that all kinds of perversions occur…fornications, adultery, incest, rape, prostitution, polygamy. And you can add to that the sin of homosexuality. For … Continue reading
Posted in Random Selections
Tagged homosexuality, John MacArthur, perversion, wickedness
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Sermon of the week: “Creation, Day 3″ by John MacArthur.
Your sermon of the week is Creation, Day 3 by John MacArthur from his series The Battle for the Beginning. We’ve been featuring this series every other week. The next installment will be in two weeks.
Posted in Creation vs Evolution, Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, atonement, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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Sermon of the week: “Creation, Day 2″ by John MacArthur.
Your sermon of the week is Creation, Day 2 by John MacArthur from his series The Battle for the Beginning. We’ve been featuring this series every other week on DefCon. The next installment will be in two weeks.
Posted in Creation vs Evolution, Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, atonement, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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Ecumenical Jihad
Posted in Encouragement
Tagged Apostasy, deception, False Teachers, heresy, John MacArthur
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Sermon of the week “The How, Why, and When of Creation” by John MacArthur.
Your sermon of the week is the third edition of John MacArthur’s The Battle for the Beginning series with a two-part message entitled The How, Why, and When of Creation. The How, Why, and When of Creation (Part One) The … Continue reading
Posted in Creation vs Evolution, Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, atonement, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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Sermon of the week: “God – Creator and Redeemer” by John MacArthur.
This is the next installment on the subject of creation vs evolution by John MacArthur from his series The Battle For the Beginning. It is entitled God: Creator and Redeemer. Look for the next installment in two weeks.
Posted in Creation vs Evolution, Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, atonement, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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Sermon of the week: “Creation – Believe it or Not” by John MacArthur.
We’re beginning a new series here on DefCon by John MacArthur on the subject of God’s creation (versus man’s theory of evolution) from his series The Battle for the Beginning. We begin with the following two-part message entitled Creation – … Continue reading
Posted in Creation vs Evolution, Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, atonement, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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Sermon of the week: “Ministry in an Age of Itching Ears” by John MacArthur.
Today’s sermon is another great one from John MacArthur entitled Ministry in an Age of Itching Ears. This is not a message that most American pastors would appreciate; which is precisely why it’s DefCon’s sermon of the week.
Posted in Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, atonement, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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Sermon of the week: “The Atonement: Real or Potential?” by John MacArthur.
Your sermon of the week is a fantastic one. Grab a pen and paper because you will be taking copious notes (I had to keep pulling the car over to write). I bring you this Thursday’s sermon by John MacArthur … Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged Apologetics, atonement, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
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Ministry in the age of itching ears
From 1st Timothy 4:1-5 by John MacArthur Now I’ll ask you a simple question. Why are people unwilling to endure sound teaching? Because they love…what?…sin. Sound preaching confronts and rebukes sin and people with love for sinful life style will … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm
Tagged Christianity, False Teachers, Gospel, Jesus Christ, John MacArthur
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The Deceiver
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.” Matthew 7:15 Now listen to me, in the case of the sheep’s clothing, what you have here is not some guy crawling on … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, False Christs
Tagged Apostasy, false prophets, False Teachers, heresy, John MacArthur
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A Wideness in God’s Mercy?
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm
Tagged Apostasy, Billy Graham, false prophets, False Teachers, heresy, John MacArthur
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Deliverance: From the Temporal World to the Eternal Kingdom
by John MacArthur We have taken a break from our study of the gospel of Luke for the last five weeks, and now this is the sixth week in which I have spoken to you on the subject of deliverance, … Continue reading
Posted in Random Selections
Tagged Apostasy, Billy Graham, false prophets, False Teachers, heresy, John MacArthur
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Sermon of the week: “Sheep Among Wolves” by John MacArthur.
Your sermon of the week is a two part message by John MacArthur entitled Sheep Among Wolves. MacArthur identifies how to spot the wolves, what methods they will use to kill the sheep, and how the sheep should respond to … Continue reading
When being nice is wrong.
The following is from John MacArthur’s book The Jesus You Can’t Ignore: What You Must Learn from the Bold Confrontations of Christ. And as always, he’s spot on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The problem is that the needed reformation within evangelicalism won’t occur … Continue reading
Posted in Random Selections
Tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, christian, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Jesus Christ, John MacArthur, Religion, Theology
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Quotes (650)
Richard Baxter said, “Don’t pretend to love your people if you favor their sins.” Any pastor who says, “We don’t deal with sin here” doesn’t love his people, and it’s questionable whether he loves his God. Anybody who loves God … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Richard Baxter, Sin, Theology
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