“ Great Sermon! ” Thankyou brother Brian for your wisdom on this subject.I have suffered from depression but since the Lord chose me twenty years ago I have learnt the biblical truths to deliver me from it. I tried anti-depressants but they made me feel like a zombie. So I put my trust in God to help me to change my negative thinking that I get sometimes, by learning memory verses and preaching the gospel to myself everyday.Good Christian music is important too.I can still get down but I have the tools from God to help myself get out of it.Praise God for His healing words.I have listened and read much on depression, my husband suffers from it too, exercise helped him, but he is not a Christian yet. I know now how to help him and myself. Both of us came from very dysfunctional families. Amazing how our two daughters dont suffer from it, they are both Christians. Thank God! Its all the baggage from the past that comes up and the devil. Thats when I need to remember God's promises, renew my thinking,and do what is right. I thank God for men like yourself who are compassionate and very wise in dealing with this very common affliction in the Church today. How we need each other to support and pray for one another.Bless you!
“ Great Sermon! ” Excellent content and delivery of a fantastic sermon by Brian, and very educational its true there is no better medicine than the power of
The Holy Spirit
Well done Brian
“ Great Sermon! ” I had no idea! What an eye opener this was for me. With out details: This was filled with awesome truths that brought some sins right up to the top, my tears poured out of the flood gates, and the truth set me free from the burdens that I carried. Thank you so much for such an honest, Biblical exposition. This needs to be heard, and I will definitely encourage my family to listen to it, a 2nd hearing would do my heart and soul some good too.
“ Great Sermon! ” Hi pastor Brian.
Your sermons end at the letter Tsade (vv.137 - 144). I would want to know if you had continued to teach up to the end of Psalm 119 or to the letter Tav. I have enormously benefited from your teaching that I would want to have the entire sermons. Please respond.
“ Blessed message. ” A blessed message: the Christ who assisted the faithful ones in the past is the same today, helping us to persevere until the end. He will be the same Christ for our children. And His message, which changed Paul and Peter, is the same message which changed our lives.
“ Moving. ” Very moving message about the need to empathize with those in prison and mistreated. The preacher gives many instances of Christians around the world suffering much for their faith. It is true, even for us, in Romania (who were persecuted until 20 years ago) that now we tend to forget about our brothers and sisters in the world you are still suffering for their faith. We must learn to remember them and to pray for them and help them...
“ Covenant. ” I liked Bonhoeffer's quotation from this message: "Not love sustains marriage, but marriage sustains love". God will give His children the grace to remain faithful to their marriage covenant.
“ Biblical and powerful. ” Blessed message! Marriage was instituted not by men, culture, traditions, but by God, as was sex. The preacher lists several ways in which we are to honor marriage, as well as several ways in which we can dishonor that. The teaching of the Bible is very clearly stated.
“ Great lesson. ” Christ accepted us and changed our lives: we must show this changed life accepting others in our houses. Great message about hospitality - it is an aspect of our lives in which many of us have failures.
“ Great darkness. ” Very good argumentation about the differences between the Catholic doctrines and those of the Reformation. The Council of Trent meant making official the heresy, the departure from Scripture, an advancing into darkness. Many quotes which illumines this thing.
“ Great study. ” God, through Christ, brought us in His family, so between us there is the bond of a spiritual love. Chapter 13 presents the manifestation of a life of pleasant worship before God. This life of pleasant worship consist not only in a vertical aspect - toward God, but has an horizontal aspect also - toward men.
“ Useful. ” Rich material, excellent presentation of the background of the Synod and the Canons of Dort, the theological and political consequences and implications of these. Very good the observation that the Canons of Dort were not a definition of the Reformed faith (they had the Belgic Confession and the Heidelberg Catechism for that), but a response given to the Remonstrants.
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