Sermon for Sunday Evening, November 28th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Scripture reading: [Act 4:23-31 ESV] 23 When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to …
Sermon for Sunday, November 28th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [2Ch 7:1-6 ESV] 1 As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. 2 And the priests could …
[From a letter of J. Oliver Buswell Jr. to John W. Sanderson Jr., October 19, 1940] “Note that I am in the habit of using the word ‘dispensationalism’ to refer to that doctrine which teaches that certain portions of the Scripture are ‘on legal ground,’ or in other words that in certain parts of the …
[I find Buswell’s comment here interesting since his friend Gordon Clark would make the same argument (that Barth is hopelessly contradictory) in his 1963 book “Karl Barth’s Theological Method.” Buswell is making that argument a decade earlier in this quote from 1950 in “The Bible Today”, June-September 1950, p. 261-262.] “Barth is always changing. My …
[This is the first in a series of short “Buswell Bites” I hope to post in time. This first “bite” comes from J. Oliver Buswell’s 1926 address to Wheaton College upon his inauguration as president there. Comments very welcome.] “In the lives of many individuals, the process of maturing in Christian thinking ceases when the …
Sermon for Sunday, November 21st, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 24:1-18 ESV] 1 Then he said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar. 2 Moses alone shall come near to …
Sermon for Sunday, November 14th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 23:1-9 ESV] 1 “You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. 2 You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor …
Sermon for Sunday, November 7th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Gen 1:26-31 ESV] 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the …
Sermon for Sunday Evening, October 24th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Scripture reading: [Act 4:13-22 ESV] 13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus. 14 But seeing the …
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Sermon for Sunday, October 17th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 21:33 – 22:15 ESV] 33 “When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, 34 the owner of the …
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Sermon for Sunday, October 17th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 21:1-32 ESV] 1 “Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. 2 When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. …
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Sermon for Sunday, October 10th, 2021 for First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) meeting during Fall Outposts Retreat at Tuscarora Inn, Mt. Bethel PA. [Psa 25:1-22 ESV] 1 Of David. To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul. 2 O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; …
Sermon for Sunday, October 3rd, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 20:15-21 ESV] 15 “You shall not steal. 16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or …
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The impact of Bible Presbyterianism as a movement is greater than one might consider at first impression. While the Bible Presbyterian Church today is a but a small group of about 28 churches, there are churches in other denominations who share much of same history in their early years. These churches are principally those which …
Sermon for Sunday Evening, September 26th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Scripture reading: [Act 4:1-12 ESV] 1 And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, 2 greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in …
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Sermon for Sunday, September 26th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 20:22-26 ESV] 22 And the LORD said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the people of Israel: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you from heaven. 23 You shall not make gods …
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Sermon for Sunday, September 19th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 21:12-32 ESV] 12 “Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. 13 But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I …
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Sermon for Sunday, September 12th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 20:12 ESV] 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. New Testament reading: [Eph 6:1-9 ESV] 1 Children, obey your parents …
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Sermon for Sunday, September 5th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 31:12-18 ESV] 12 And the LORD said to Moses, 13 “You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you …
Sermon for Sunday, August 29th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 20:1-6 ESV] 1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 “You shall have no …
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Sermon for Sunday, August 22th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 19:1-25 ESV] 1 On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 They set out from Rephidim …
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Sermon for Sunday, August 15th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Baptism of Birch Renze Douma Old Testament reading: [Exo 4:24-26 ESV] 24 At a lodging place on the way the LORD met him and sought to put him to death. 25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s …
John Witherspoon and the Connecting of American Presbyterians Speech given at the 84th General Synod of the Bible Presbyterian Church meeting in Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 9, 2021. by Rev. Douglas J. Douma [Introductory Remarks: On the theme of connectivity at the level of the general assembly (or synod in the case of the BPC), …
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