All the Father's Gifts are Good

03/15/23 • 34 min

In today’s message, we get to hear a powerful and heartfelt sermon from Pastor Joe Reed at Lewis Lake Covenant Church. In 2017, his little daughter Alice, who was 4 years old, was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor. They were able to treat it for a little while, but most patients have a small remission, and then the cancer comes back, and they only live 9 months. Alice lived about that long. She died on Friday, June 8, 2018.
This sermon was originally delivered on October 15, 2017, just a few weeks after they learned the news. It’s a testament to God’s sovereign goodness that Joe trusted God through this difficult time, and it’s a testament that he still trusts God today. I had the privilege of reading Alice’s story on Joe’s website, and even after she died, he wrote the same message. God gives only good gifts, and we can trust him for that.
If you’d like to read more about Alice, you can follow the links below.
Blog Posts: https://commonslaves.wordpress.com/alice/
eBook: https://a.co/2lFOwGq
The message today is from Matthew 7:7-11 and is titled All the Father’s Gifts are Good.

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Persistent Prayer (Part 2 of 2)

Listen to part two of a two-part message on prayer, so if you haven’t heard the first one, I encourage you to go back and give it a listen. Today, Pastor Brandon encourages us to prayer that God would open the door for the gospel to go forward, and not only that, but also that we would go through the door and take the opportunities we have to share the gospel.
At the end of the message, he addresses a group of young believers who are about to be baptized, and it is truly a treasure to get to listen in on this church-family moment where an unfamous pastor, ministering to a small, local congregation, encourages his sheep to be people of prayer as they embark on their new life in Christ.
This is what the local, unfamous church is about, and it’s the prayers of the saints that make them effective.

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Why Did Jesus Need to Die?

Today, we will hear a message from Pastor Aaron Satchwill, preaching on Good Friday at the church he planted up in Roseau, Minnesota. It’s called Immanuel Baptist Church, and it’s closer to Canada than anywhere else.
Pastor Aaron is a good friend of mine that I’ve known since I was a teenager. He was actually my camp counselor when I was in high school. We’ve worked together over the years at camp and through our association of churches, and I’ve always been blessed by his teaching and preaching.
The message we are going to hear today is from Romans 3:23. In it, he explains why Christ had to die. It is through Christ alone that we are saved, and we really need that salvation because as he explained, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. We’ve rebelled. We’ve transgressed. We’ve broken the covenant. We’ve fallen short. But Jesus died and rose again on our behalf.
Our podcast is about listening to unfamous pastors, but we want to support these pastors as well. Our church is a biblical counseling training center through the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors. What does that mean? It means we train pastors and lay people how to counsel and minister to their church and their community using the word. Our training is one of our biggest outreaches, and it’s all about strengthening local churches. If you’d like to support this mission, there’s a link in the show notes where you can give to our biblical counseling ministry.
All the proceeds will go toward training pastors and laypeople to better minister in their local churches.

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