Calvary Bible Church of Kalamazoo, Michigan

49:12 minutes (22.74 MB)

The pathway to usefulness is consecration. That is the pathway that God had to lead Isaiah along. That is the pathway we all need to follow.

Only what is attached to God will last forever. Anything that is not attached to God needs to be detached from our lives. As we open to Isaiah 6, think about the balance sheet of your life. As one famous missionary once said while laying on his deathbed, "Only one life, t'will soon be past; and only what's done for Christ will last"! (Read More)

49:21 minutes (22.59 MB)

God's recovery program for fallen mankind is always sanctification.

Christ's New Testament church was born into a sin-warped, dark-hearted world of mixed-up marriages, sin-scarred lives, and confused families. 

As we open to the book of Titus this morning, never forget that is the context. Paul, guided by the Spirit of God, was writing a letter to Titus, the missionary church planter sent to the island of Crete. (Read More)

49:33 minutes (22.68 MB)

As we open to the book of Titus, remember that the New Testament has three letters written specifically to pastors, explaining how they are to teach and lead Christ's flock. Titus is one of the three, and is a book about how all of us are to conduct ourselves in Christ's church. I, II Timothy and Titus are these "Pastoral Epistles" where God explains the "How to's" for the churches that Christ is building. (Read More)

46:06 minutes (21.1 MB)

God has placed a "Help Wanted" ad online in His Word. He wants to enlist a special group of older and younger men to be highly useful to Him. These godly men, along with their counterparts among the older and younger women, will be highly compensated with eternal, unfading, personalized reward accounts in Heaven. That summarizes our portion of Scripture in Titus 2:1-8 today. (Read More)

48:36 minutes (22.25 MB)

God has explained the pathway to being highly useful to Him in the 24 words of Titus 2. God through His Word says that the second key ingredient is: a chosen way of life He defines as REVERENT.

Are you reverent today? Reverence is a mind and will that has learned to feel the "weight" of God in every part of our life and activities. (Read More)

47:24 minutes (21.7 MB)

As we open to Titus 2, listen as God speaks through Paul to each of us today, expressing exactly what He wants us to be. Paul wrote out this curriculum for Titus, it was to be taught to every person in the church as a personal map to a life of pleasing God. This letter explains the specific ways that men, women, boys, and girls can choose to obey Christ by responding to His Word. (Read More)

46:29 minutes (21.28 MB)

Earth's darkest hours are dead ahead. Jesus warned us that at the end of days, the world will be subjected to the most intense bombardment of deceptions, false teachings, and truthlessness ever poured out on humanity. How healthy are your beliefs about God? (Read More)

65:59 minutes (30.2 MB)

Love is the greatest of all the manifestations of God at work in the life of His children.

That is why Jesus warned His disciples that it would be increasingly harder and harder to maintain that strong and healthy love, in this ungodly world. (Read More)

46:15 minutes (21.17 MB)

As we open to Titus 2, we re considering the power of hope. When things get darkest in life, what one truth keeps folks going? It's the word: hope.

Someone once described us as humans in this way:

Humans can live 40 days without food; and 3 days without water; and 8 minutes without air; But only 1 second without hope! (Read More)

50:09 minutes (22.96 MB)

One of the most amazing dimensions of the Christian life is the liberating knowledge that we can know exactly what God expects from us as we live our lives on earth.

God has designed each of us who know and love Him, with gender-specific roles, and responsibilities. And each day we live we can either be obediently pleasing Him, or disobediently displeasing Him. Amazingly, neither obedience nor disobedience changes His steadfast love: it only impacts our eternal rewards (II Cor. 5:10), and status in Heaven (Matthew 25). (Read More)

46:17 minutes (21.19 MB)

As we each open to Colossians 2 this morning, I am reminded of the full and rich lives almost all of us lead. Our culture presses upon us with expectations, deadlines, stress, and a never-ending list of assignments and duties. So much so that, sometimes we rejoice just to get one item checked off, don't we?

When vital things in our lives are completed they give such a great feeling: a completed assignment so our work is done; a completely balanced diet so we are healthy; all our requirements completed, so the pressures are off. All of those areas of life make us feel: (Read More)

56:00 minutes (25.64 MB)

As we open to Titus 2, at this very moment, Satan is roaming the Earth trying to mess up God's plan. His methods of attack are very focused, and are revealed in God's Word by his many names. Each of Satan's well-known names describes a facet of his evil plan. He is called: (Read More)

45:13 minutes (20.7 MB)

Today we celebrate mothers. For a moment let's meet all the moms here this morning: all the moms, please stand; and as you stand, to all the moms here and those who are not, we all owe a debt of gratitude.

We all owe our very life to our mom.

May each of you mothers know the joy of your children rising up and blessing you. (Read More)

55:40 minutes (25.48 MB)

When we gather as we do today, and open God's Word, we are asking Him to speak to us. Sometimes what we hear touches on a small part of our lives, other times what He says is huge. This morning, the topic we have arrived at to study is HUGE.

The only way to understand the gravity of what we are hearing from God's Word today is to go to where it will matter. Open with me to the end of the Bible, Revelation 4. (Read More)

45:36 minutes (20.87 MB)

As we open God's Word to the end of Titus 2:3, we arrive at the single most powerful quality of the entire Titus 2 men's and women's lists. This single word in the Greek language, sums up the entire reason we live on Earth. This statement of God's plan for all women, in one word sums up all that will last forever. This word explains how to keep from suffering loss at Christ's Judgment Seat. This word ties together what God wants and how we receive His well done. (Read More)

44:04 minutes (20.17 MB)

As we open to Titus 2:4 look at the first three words: "that they admonish". This is the final quality God desires to see in every older woman of grace, which describes their lifestyle of admonishing, encouraging, or calling others to realize what God has clearly stated they are supposed to do. (Read More)

44:17 minutes (20.27 MB)

God launched His plan to train the women of Christ's Church using the godly older women He was already at work inside, and allowing their Spirit-led walk as they grew day-by-day, to flow out into the lives of younger women.

But the message that the Lord Himself asked these women to communicate must have sounded impossible.

Paul told them that the Lord asked every believing wife to decide and surrender to these twin concepts contained in the very first word of this list: (Read More)

50:18 minutes (23.02 MB)

When the believers in Crete listened to God's Word, they heard the voice of God asking them to start making specific, personal choices to obey His Word. Sanctification is when believers respond to God's plan as stated in His Word, and as empowered by His Spirit.

To the Cretan believers, those choices were a personal response to God's desires for their personal lives, their marriages, and their families. (Read More)

50:04 minutes (22.92 MB)

Nurturing love in a loveless world is our theme this morning.

On Christ's last night with His disciples, He said in John 13 that believers would be known by their love for each other. This type of love is supernatural, prompted by grace, empowered by the Spirit, and modeled by godly mature saints. Christ's church was built from the start with this powerful nurturing love. (Read More)

49:33 minutes (22.68 MB)

God's high calling for Titus 2 women of grace, is for them to express love that their husbands and children can feel. To most of us mature 21^st century believers that may sound wonderful. To them it must have sounded impossible. As we open to Ephesians 4, think about how hard it has always been to live pleasing to God,  in this ungodly world. (Read More)

35:01 minutes (16.24 MB)

In Titus 2, the first word of v.5 calls each of us to pay attention to our own, personal, spiritual mental health, for God's sake.

There are only two mental health providers in the Universe:

• the first One says that He came to give Life that is Abundant; and
• the other one came only to kill, steal, and destroy.

At salvation we go from the destroyer's control to Christ Jesus' life that is endless and abundant. However, we still live in fallen human bodies, in a cursed and sinful world. (Read More)

48:26 minutes (22.17 MB)

As we open to hear God speak from His Word this morning, turn with me to the words written to every man, woman, and young person in Christ's church. Those words are located in Titus 2:1-8. Before we go through this passage, let me ask you a question.

Salvation is described as being clothed with Christ's righteousness; and the Christian life is portrayed as putting on Christ each day. So each of us here today are literally, as believers: (Read More)