Sermon from July 6, 2008 by Darryl Dash - Audio | Transcript

Our worship services take place every Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

On Sunday, July 13, Jon McMurray will be helping us understand what Proverbs says about anger, and what to do about it. We will also be celebrating communion.

On Sunday, July 20, guest speaker Ian Clary will be speaking on 2 Corinthians 8:9: "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich." Children will be invited to stay during the service, but our regular monthly potluck will not be taking place in July or August.

On Sunday, July 27, John Bell will be speaking. John has worked at Thistletown Baptist Church for the past year, and is currently working on starting a church in downtown Toronto.

On Sunday, August 3, Pastor Darryl Dash will be speaking on Proverbs and friendship.

275 years ago, Jonathan Edwards, one of the most brilliant theologians in American history, preached a sermon called "The Duty of Charity to the Poor, Explained and Enforced." The theme of the sermon was this: "Tis the most absolute and indispensable duty of a people of God to give bountifully and willingly for the supply of the wants of the needy." It's a powerful sermon, and well worth reading even today.

One of the things I really appreciate about this sermon is that he builds a solid case for why Christians should give to the poor. He says: "Where have we any command in the Bible laid down in stronger terms, and in a more peremptory urgent manner, than the command of giving to the poor?" And also:

It is not merely a commendable thing for a man to be kind and bountiful to the poor, but our bounden duty, as much a duty as it is to pray, or to attend public worship, or anything else whatever. And the neglect of it brings great guilt upon any person.

Sermon from June 29, 2008 by Darryl Dash - Audio | Transcript