Pastor Don Fortner has had a huge impact on me over the years and although I'll miss downloading and listening to his current sermons he has gone to better place. He has fallen asleep in the Lord after running a faithful race. The funeral service can be watched or listened to here: https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=53202038335383 A video … Continue reading Don Fortner’s Funeral Service
God
The Trinity
In the first chapter of Genesis we are taught this truth in the loftiest way possible, and elsewhere, too, it is expressed most gloriously in word and song. He speaks, and it is done; He commands, and it stands fast (Ps. 33:9). He sends out His word, and melts the morsels of ice (Ps. 147:18). … Continue reading The Trinity
FREE Summa Theologica Audio
Description: The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written between 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas, even though it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners and a compilation of all of the main theological teachings of that time. It summarizes the reasoning for … Continue reading FREE Summa Theologica Audio
Seasons
Lately I've been going through a season where the reading of God's Holy word leaves me dry and barren. For almost 20 years I could just open the Bible and feel the Spirit ministering to me from the pages as I read but the last few months my reading of God's word as left me … Continue reading Seasons
Evil Beast of Man
"Our Divines set themselves Hand and Foot with Might and Main, with their utmost Endeavour, by Persecution and Reproach, against this, [and say,] that Men must not [dare to] search into the deep Grounds what God is; Men must not search nor curiously pry into the Deity. But if I should speak plainly what this trick of … Continue reading Evil Beast of Man
The Traditionalist!
Survey says!?! (take the worldview quiz here) Quote: Thank you for taking the worldview test! The test is based on extensive academic research and has been shown to generate fairly consistent results. You can find more information about the research here. Here are your results: The worldview you identify with most is called traditional. Out of 17 … Continue reading The Traditionalist!
O Jerusalem
Baruch 5:1-9 5Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on for ever the beauty of the glory from God. 2 Put on the robe of the righteousness that comes from God; put on your head the diadem of the glory of the Everlasting; 3 for God will show your splendour everywhere under heaven. 4 For God … Continue reading O Jerusalem
Does God Exist?
If you haven't heard of Peterson get yourself out from under that rock and google him. He's insightful for an unbeliever. As one commented, "This is a man that doesn't believe in a god (because his intellect won't let him) but desperately wants to." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfvVu7__vy0
The Lament of Hermes
I thought this was interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Kou9TGdi8 Translated from the Latin the Greek having been lost: Trismegistus: "Do you not know, Asclepius, that Egypt is an image of heaven, or, to speak more exactly, in Egypt all the operations of the powers which rule and work in heaven have been transferred to earth below? Nay, it … Continue reading The Lament of Hermes
Impassibility
Impassibility (from Latin in-, "not", passibilis, "able to suffer, experience emotion") describes the theological doctrine that God does not experience pain or pleasure from the actions of another being. - Wiki Sermons on the subject here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urAtIkGbMsg