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For an excellent resource to accompany Pastor Stacy’s mini-series on physical healing and present-day miracles, please click HERE and scroll down to see the book, God’s Healing Promise by Richard Mayhue. This is a thorough treatment of the subject of miracles and healing through both the Old and New Testaments. It will make a great resource for further reading and study on this important subject.

In yesterday morning’s message, Pastor Stacy mentioned a book that we give away to every person we baptize. The book in entitled, Growing Your Faith. If you would be interested in having a copy for yourself, click HERE to link directly to it.

From last night’s message on learning to effectively listen to a sermon, help us out with some of your own suggestions. How to you prepare to listen to sermons? Or, what do you plan to do this week to intentionally prepare yourself to not only listen, but “hear?”

Before we launch into the last suggestion for growing in your understanding and application of mortification, I would enjoy hearing from any of you who have been following the week’s posts. How have you personally become more aggressive in fighting against sin? Have you begun anything new? Renewed any disciplines that had fallen away? Taken any practical steps that you have found helpful? Share them...

Yesterday I mentioned that I would point you to some books you can purchase that would help you “study the gospel,” and so help you to increase your effectiveness in preaching the gospel to yourself. C.J. Mahaney recommends the following books – I would concur: The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges – I would begin here, personally. The Cross of Christ by John Stott The Power...

To mortify sin we must have an attitude of all out war. We must prepare our mind biblically to understand the resources we have and our spiritual position in regard to sin. But attitude and knowledge prove useless if we do not actually and actively engage the enemy. The first suggestion I made in last Sunday evening’s message was to “Focus on the gospel in everything you do.” How can this...

THE CAPRANICA This link will direct you to Pastor Bret’s personal blog and a series of posts he did reviewing John Owen’s book “On the Mortification of Sin.” This is one of the books recommended in Sunday Evening’s sermon.

The second point of Sunday evening’s message, in learning to wage an effective war against sin, was to “Plan for War” The primary way we plan for war is to strengthen our theological comprehension of the gospel and its particular elements. The purpose of Romans 1-5 in the grand scheme of the epistle is to do just that – provide the reader with the proper comprehension of what the gospel...

STOP IT! (Funny MadTV sketch on Psychology) VideoSift It’s not John Owen, but Bob Newhart has a similar take on mortification of sin. Click on the link above.