Here are 6 more reasons to join a local church from Paul Tautges: It is our conviction that every Christian should be an active member of a Bible-teaching local church. As believers in Christ, we are members of His body and must discipline ourselves to be actively involved in ministry as a way of ...

Here is the video for Men's Night Part 3: The Art of Disciple-Making from Metro East Baptist Church on ...

In my previous two posts I dealt with the wether church membership was biblical and wether it was a sin not to join a church. You can find them here and here. Now to our third question: Why Should I Join A Church? Tim Challies gives 5 reasons: 1. For Assurance. While a person should not feel ...

On Sunday I promised that I would do a follow-up blog post on some defenses agaisnt sexual temptation. I am thinking mostly of men in this post, but much of it can certainly be applied to women. I've said before that there are two kinds of men: those who struggle with lust and those who are dead. ...

In my last post on membership I answered the question as to wether membership is biblical. Here is the second question I want to adress: Is it a sin not to join a church? While there is no command in the New Testament that says, "Thou shalt join a local church!" there is also no instance in the ...

We live in a culture reluctant to make commitmenets. One of the areas people are unwilling to commit is to church membership. Though many Christians are committed to their churches, they refuse to commit to the church the way the leadership desires, which is formal membership. At Metro East we ...

If you missed the Men's Night earlier this month you can get the audio HERE. Video coming soon.  Love ya, Pastor ...

What would things look like if Satan really took control of a city? Over a half century ago, Presbyterian minister Donald Grey Barnhouse offered his own scenario in his weekly sermon that was also broadcast nationwide on CBS radio. Barnhouse speculated that if Satan took over Philadephia, all of ...

  Here is one of my favorite excerpts from Milton Vincent's The Gospel Primer For Christians.  "Compared to greater endeavors, self-love is mundane and tiresome. Consequently, the more thoroughly I can be done with such tedium, the freer my soul will be to soar at its God-intended ...