Sermons by Paul R. Blake (Page 7)
A Nation Without the Bible
Wherever Bible reading is on the increase, freedom is on the increase. Wherever, Bible reading is in decline, freedom begins to diminish.
I Just Don’t Have Enough Time
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
Talk of Them When You Sit in Your House
The word “diligently” means “to sharpen, to pierce through, to give a sharp edge, like sharpening a knife.” It is an intensely strong command with the idea of an assertive teaching process in a family setting.
Shall We Not Accept Adversity
Job understood that God permits adversity into our lives. Job understood that it is a natural part of the cycle of life in this world. He understood that how one bears with adversity in this world determines his destiny in the world to come. Then his wife said to him, Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die! 10 But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed…
Relationship Edification
Edification – “oikodome: architecture, a structure; confirmation, building up, edify, edification, edifying” (Strongs)
Spending the Night with Lions
“The predictions of things to come that relate to the state of the Church amongst the old Prophets, Daniel is most distinct in order of time and easiest to be understood. Daniel is in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, and to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion.” (Sir Isaac Newton, Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel, 1733)
What are Besetting Sins
What are “Besetting Sins”? It is a temptation and sin that one finds it particularly hard for him to resist and often finds himself easily tangled up in it.
Carefully Following Paul
“Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.” (Francis of Assisi)