Dynamics and Intervals
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Monthly Archives: October 2016
A Well Known Book or Is It? Daniel 1:1-2
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 1:1-2 I have not preached through the book of Daniel since 1983, when very few of you were in the church and many of you were not yet in the world! It is time to consider this book together. The times have changed since 1983 and in a direction that […]
Paul’s Reformation Acts 26:1-32
Download audio Download sermon Acts 26:1-32 Last week we considered the circumstances that provided an opportunity for Paul to make still one more defense of his life and conduct, this time before the governor, Festus, and one of Rome’s client kings, Herod Agrippa II, and his sister, Bernice. Now we hear the defense itself. Text […]
What Are You Asking God? (Rev Khen Tombing)
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A Citizen of Two Kingdoms Acts 25:1-27
Download audio Download sermon Acts 25:1-27 We left Paul last time in Caesarea where he had been incarcerated for the previous two years. At the end of the previous chapter we read that Felix, the Roman governor, had been replaced by Porcius Festus, whose responsibility Paul had now become. According to Josephus, Felix was recalled […]
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Download audio Hymn “None Other Lamb” Notes Remarks Life is sung in different volumes. The mother’s lullaby is softer than the University Fight Song, the ballad than the National Anthem. And so it is with psalms and hymns. This obvious fact has been somewhat obscured in our day by the distorting effect of amplifiers, because […]
Meditating on God’s Word – Psalm 119:97-104
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Making the Case Acts 24:1-27
Download audio Download sermon Acts 24:1-27 Paul has been taken from Jerusalem to Caesarea for his own safety and for the adjudication of charges made against him by the Jewish leadership in Jerusalem. Text Comment v.2 Isn’t it amazing how similar that world was to ours today? The Jews came to present their charges, but […]
Solomon and Sinatra Part 12
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The Culture of Desire Psalm 4
Download audio Download sermon Psalm 4 Text Comment v.2 Now comes the complaint, the account of the problem. Some scholars have taken the problem to be a continuation of that faced in Psalm 3, viz. the rebellion of Absalom and the civil war that resulted, and take the actual statements of the psalm as simply […]
Concursus Acts 23:11-35
Download audio Download sermon Acts 23:11-35 Paul has been placed under guard by the Roman authorities in Jerusalem. Remember, Jerusalem was not the capital of the Roman province of Judea. That was Caesarea, a new and beautiful city built by King Herod the Great on the Mediterranean Coast, where Paul was soon to be taken. […]
Making Choices
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Interview with Greg Wilber
Download audio Pastor Rayburn interviews Gregory Wilbur who is Chief Musician of Cornerstone Presbyterian Church, Franklin, Tennessee, and the Dean of New College Franklin as well as a senior teaching fellow. For over a decade he has taught the arts (music, drama, art history, and aesthetics) as well as literature and rhetoric. As a composer, he has […]
The God-Boy Luke 2:41-52
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Humble Cleverness Acts 22:2-23:11
Download audio Download sermon Acts 22:2-23:11 To be frank, I’m not entirely sure what Luke would say if I were able to ask him why he included the narrative we are about to read. It is interesting, to be sure, and it carries the story along – explaining how it was that Paul was taken […]
Unison
Download audio “Hail, Gladdening Light” “Man of Sorrows” Notes Remarks We have encouraged you to sing four-part harmony and to learn how to do so if you are not yet able to sing the alto, tenor, or bass line. We said last time that there are good reasons for a Christian congregation to sing in […]