Morningview Baptist Church

Are you a flirt?  Really weigh your heart and ask yourself the question — “Are you a flirt?”  You may be thinking that this question regards your behavior towards those of the opposite sex, but that isn’t quite what I mean. (In terms of your relationships, I hope you are not a flirt unless you are flirting with your own spouse to playfully express your love for one another.)  But the kind of flirting I’m talking about is flirting with sin — that’s a little more personal.

The fact of the matter is that we far too often flirt with sin.  Sin is like a dark chasm that can so easily swallow us up.  Though we have been warned, Continue reading

Biblical accountability in the church is a beautiful expression of love.  It really is.  As you well know, church discipline or church accountability fell by the wayside in our Baptist churches in the early to mid 1900′s.  From that point forward, the rate of unregenerate church membership increased steeply and the moral state of the church became largely reflective of the moral state of our lost culture.  Thankfully, that trend is being slowly reversed.  A revival of this practice has begun Continue reading

Is God’s ultimate glory in creation ever really in danger of being lost?  Are there circumstances or choices that will result in God ultimately getting “less” glory as opposed to “more” glory at the final consummation of all things?  These are interesting questions to say the least, because the answers to these questions reveal Continue reading

This past Sunday, we finished our exposition of the Disciple’s Prayer in Matthew 6 by examining the final request:  “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”  When we consider the subject of temptation, many thoughts come to mind.  As Christians, we all have areas where, by God’s grace, we enjoy a measure of success in fighting sin.  However, all of us also have areas of besetting sin where we find it extremely difficult to resist temptation and Continue reading

Forgiveness can be a very difficult subject for many people.  God has made us to be relational beings, but because of sin, we have become very adept at hurting one another in the midst of our relationships.  And when we are hurt, forgiveness is not our natural response.  Our natural human tendency is to withdraw and retaliate when we have been injured by someone.  We also tend to think that to forgive someone Continue reading