Ruth 2 - Enter Boaz

Preached by Pastoral Intern Jason Anspach on 05-02-2010

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Ruth 1 - Behind the Paths

Preached by Pastoral Intern Jason Anspach on 01/24/2010.

Jude 5 - A Change in Plans.  Preached by Pastoral Intern Jason Anspach on 05/24/09

Jude 5-10

5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; 7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 10 But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

It is our prayer that you will find the contents of this most recent issue of  “Earnestly Contending for the Faith” edifying and useful in your Christian walk.

The Bible Presbyterian Church has a long and proud history of “earnestly contending for the faith once delivered to the saints.”  This bi-monthly publication, we hope, will be found to be solidly in that tradition and we ask for your prayers as we undertake this project.

These are challenging days and it is important that the believer be fully equipped to serve Christ faithfully and …be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ (1 Peter 3:15-16).

We hope this little newsletter will help towards that end, as well as clarify some of the issues of the day—including those within our own family.

Back issues are available here.

Beholding God In the Person of His Son part 4 - preached by GW Fisher on 03/29/09.

This sermon is a part of a series of messages relating to a proposed vision statement for the future of the Bible Presbyterian Church.

It is our prayer that you will find the contents of “Earnestly Contending for the Faith” edifying and useful in your Christian walk.

The Bible Presbyterian Church has a long and proud history of “earnestly contending for the faith once delivered to the saints.”  This bi-monthly publication, we hope, will be found to be solidly in that tradition and we ask for your prayers as we undertake this project.

These are challenging days and it is important that the believer be fully equipped to serve Christ faithfully and …be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ (1 Peter 3:15-16).

We hope this little newsletter will help towards that end, as well as clarify some of the issues of the day—including those within our own family.

The faith of God's people relates to things past, present, and to come.  It believes that God made the world.  There is a past.  It believers that God is.  There is the present.  It believes that there will be a day of judgment.  There is the future.  Of old, for thousands of years, the pious believed in a Savior to come.  In the days of His flesh, His disciples believed in a Savior to come.  For... two thousand years God's people have believed in a Savior that has come.  In all these cases, the faith was the same in principle, and in its effect also.

- William Plumer