Northwest Regional FBF Conference

March 20, 2011

Our annual conference last week was at Lincoln Park Baptist Church in Wenatchee, WA.

Our keynote speaker was Dr. Fred Moritz, my good friend and former mission director. He is now ‘emeritus’ with the mission and on the faculty of Maranatha Baptist Seminary.

We had a great week … all in just three days! Lots of preaching and good fellowship. This post is to provide a convenient link to the sermons. Clicking the link will take you to a filtered view of ‘Our Sermons’ with just the FBF sermons in view.

~~~

Pastor Don

TWD Johnson funeral – Oct 27, 2010

November 8, 2010

Thomas W. D. Johnson – eulogy

Eulogy for Thomas W. D. Johnson by his eldest son, Donald C. S. Johnson.

This Poor Man Cried (Ps 34.6)

The funeral sermon for Thomas W. D. Johnson, preached by his son, Paul Thomas Johnson.

~~~

Service held at the Drayton Valley Church of God, Drayton Valley, Alberta.

~~~

For a written form of Pastor Don’s eulogy for his father, see this tribute:

Poor Boy Off the Farm

poor boy off the farm

October 23, 2010

My Tribute to My Dad

A few years ago, my dad began writing his memoirs. His title was “Poor Boy off the Farm”. It reflects the reality of his life story and something of his insecurities as he battled honorably through life. He was far from ‘poor’ in my mind, though he began life in humble circumstances.

Read more

music history links

September 13, 2010

We’d like to recommend a series of articles by Scott Aniol on The Hymnody of the Christian Church. Scott provides an excellent historical overview showing how music developed  historically through various influences. For your convenience we have linked the series of articles on this page.

messages to 2.7.10

February 7, 2010

Catching up with the Psalms, here are our last two studies:

A Song for the Sabbath (Ps 92:1-15)
The Lord Reigns (Ps 93:1-5)

~~~

Today’s Messages:

Back to Romans, we look at the present and future ministry of salvation to us by our Living Lord:

Saved by His Life (Rm 5:10)

We finish up our look at Tyndale’s Introduction to Romans:

Tyndale on Romans (6)

And we continue our communion series in Leviticus with a look at the festivals of Israel:

God’s Calendar (Lev 23:1-44)

~~~

January 31, 2010 sermons

January 31, 2010

Our first message is the preached form of our Wed, Jan 20. It is the fruit of our pastors hospital stay last weekend.

Dwelling in the Shelter of the Almighty (Ps 91.1-16)

~~~

We continue with our look at Tyndale’s Prologue to Romans, 5th part, covering mostly his summary of Romans 7.

Tyndale on Romans (5)

~~~

Our afternoon service was occupied with our annual business meeting. We thank the Lord for a good year past and look forward to a good year coming. The Lord is doing some good things among us.

Sermons uploaded Jan 17, 2010

January 17, 2010

We uploaded an old message from Dr. Monroe Parker, former director of Baptist World Mission when he preached for us February 24, 1991. The audio quality is not great, but we thought some might be interested in the message.

Ye Must be Born Again – Dr. Monroe Parker, Feb 24, 1991

Our Wednesday evening psalm last week is the only one by Moses in the Psalter. This psalm was paraphrased by Isaac Watts in the hymn from which we get the title for our lesson.

O God Our Help in Ages Past – Ps 90, Jan 13, 2010

Sunday Messages

Our message from Romans 5.9 challenges the hearer to view salvation from the wrath of God as not merely our ‘escape ticket’ from doom, but as a motivation to mortify the lusts of the flesh and put off the sins of the inner man.

Free from Wrath – Rom 5.9

We continue with our look at Tyndale’s introduction to Romans. In this lesson we look at Tyndale’s summary of the first six chapters of Romans.

Tyndale on Romans (4)

Our message from 1 Timothy challenges the believer to guard his good conscience in order to maintain his faith, part of successful Christian strategy in fighting the good fight.

War a Good Warfare – 1 Tim 1.18-20

~~~

We hope you enjoy these offerings.

Jan 10, 2010 Sermons

January 10, 2010

From our Romans series:

The Love of God Commended (Rm 5.7-8)

Our look at Tyndale’s introduction to Romans:

Tyndale on Romans (3)

From our series in 1 Timothy:

A Charge Committed (1 Tim 1.18)

~~~

Earlier in the week, our Wednesday PM look at the Psalms, Jan 6, 2010

The Meaning of Forever (Ps 89.1-52)

25 Surprising Marriages and Will Medicine Stop the Pain? [Book Reviews]

September 27, 2009

Another pastor mentioned to our pastor that he used one evening service a month for book reviews, in order to help his people find disciple-building material for themselves. Taking that suggestion to heart, this is our first attempt.

25 Surprising Marriages is a book that looks at 25 well-known Christians and their marriages. The focus is on the biography of the men and women as a couple. The benefit of this book is seen in its cumulative effect rather than in any one biographical sketch found in the book. Well worth reading and making some mental notes concerning what it took for these men and women to succeed (if they did) and then to make comparisons with one’s own marriage.

Will Medicine Stop the Pain? is a book that deals with problems in the inner man like depression, anxiety, brain disorders and cognitive problems resulting from head injury and the like. The book emphasizes that man is a two part being. We need to be sure that we are thinking right in our hearts. We need to be cautious about the use of psychiatric medicine because it can only deal with the emotional symptoms and can’t deal with the root spiritual causes of emotional pain.

Click here for audio.

Read the notes while you listen.

Read the reviews in manuscript form.

The Northwest Regional FBF Conference

May 2, 2009

The Northwest Regional FBF Conference

I’d like to commend to you the messages from our recent meeting in Monroe, WA. Our theme was “That your love may abound” (Phil 1.9). One of our speakers did an excellent job of exposing our theme passage to us. Unfortunately, the recording of his message suffered a glitch and the first bit of it is missing.

If you have time for only a few of these, be sure to listen to Dr. Bob’s messages on Meekness and Dr. Vaughn’s message on Keep Yourselves in the Love of God.

The first two messages are ‘bonus’ messages from Dr. Bob for the 10th Anniversary Sunday of Monroe Baptist Church which preceded our meeting.

  • 4/19/09 – Dr. Bob Jones III: Anniversary Sermon: An Enduring Oak
  • 4/19/09 – Dr. Bob Jones III: What do we care about the Kingdom of God
  • 4/20/09 – Rev. John Stima: Set Your Affections on Things Above
  • 4/20/09 – Dr. Bob Jones III: The Grace of God Teaches Us
  • 4/21/09 – Dr. Bob Jones III: Meekness Defined
  • 4/21/09 – Dr. John Vaughn: Speaking the Truth in Love
  • 4/21/09 – Rev. Don Johnson: Disciplined Admonition
  • 4/21/09 – Dr. Tom Nieman: A Seasoned Pastor Looks At Current Trends
  • 4/21/09 – Dr. Bob Jones III: Meekness Maligned
  • 4/21/09 – Dr. John Vaughn: Keep Yourselves in the Love of God
  • 4/22/09 – Rev. Brian Ernsberger: That Your Love May Abound
    (first part of message truncated by recording problem)
  • 4/22/09 – Dr. Bob Jones III: Meekness Modeled
  • 4/22/09 – Dr. John Vaughn: Let this Mind be in You
  • 4/22/09 – Dr. Bob Jones III: Go and Tell

Here is a link to the audio files.

Next Page »