Brian Seagraves's Blog, page 17
July 23, 2016
Sermon: Love is Best Understood Through the Cross
This is a sermon I preached at First Baptist Church, New Smyrna Beach, FL on July 17th, 2016.
Audio TranscriptLove. This is a word we use all the time, right? Sometimes you hear someone say, "I love pizza, my wife, and my dog," and you're hoping they don't mean that in all the same way, but what this leads to us realizing is that this word that we use a lot, sometimes I'm not sure people know what they mean with it, and it reminds me of that scene from the movie "The Princess Bride" where Inig...
July 5, 2016
Sermon: Philippians 4 - Christ-Centered Contentment, not the Prosperity Gospel
Today, we���re going to be finishing up the letter of Philippians today. We���re in the fourth chapter. If you want to go ahead and get your bible out and turn there we���ll be starting in verse 10. It���ll also be on the screen if you don���t have your bible.
Just to catch you up in case you haven���t been here for the previous weeks or if you forgotten some like I have, Paul starts out this letter writing to the church at Philippi, to the Philippian Christians there. He...
July 4, 2016
America: A Christian Nation or Christians In A Nation?
Growing up, I remember hearing that America was a ���Christian Nation.��� For a while, this made sense, but as I looked at society and looked at the Bible, it became very obvious that America was not a ���Christian Nation.��� Since America became America, we have had a diversity of religious beliefs, and this diversity was and still is allowed by the 1st amendment.
We are not a theocracy; we do not run our government based on the Bible or even the Bible���s moral ethic. And while this should...
June 15, 2016
Video: The Problem of Evil, in the Wake of the Orlando Massacre
Here is a video of the talk I gave on the problem of evil to City Church Tallahassee's College group the day after the mass murder at the Orlando night club.
(You may want to fast forward through the group discussion parts)
May 14, 2016
A response to Jonathan Merritt's "3 reasons conservative Christians will lose the transgender debate"
In a recent post for Religion News Service, Jonathan Merritt lays out three reasons he believes conservative Christians will lose the transgender debate. While I believe he is correct - Christians will ultimately lose the debate - Christians should not find his three critiques compelling. (And please note, this article is written to the Christian.)
Merritt writes:
When it comes to conservative Christianity, it seems the more things change, the more things stay the same.
And
By recycling ol...
May 2, 2016
Six Lessons We Can Learn From Ted Cruz's Conversation
Ted Cruz had a conversation that, regardless of your political views, holds some great lessons for all of us.
LessonsStay in charge of the conversation using questions.When the other person asks questions and doesn't let you answer, ask them to allow you to actually answer the question.Know the facts and keep bringing the conversation back to the facts.Ask people what they mean by their terms.Ask people how they support their assertions.Stay calm and help others do the same....
March 14, 2016
Sermon: Daniel 4 - God's Everlasting Dominion
We're going through Daniel. Today, we're going to be in chapter 4. We've been looking at is how God took a group of people, his people, the Judeans, and handed them over into Babylonian captivity and how they've been living as outsiders. Outsiders has been the theme of our series here in Daniel. He's been using them to make his name known, accomplish his purposes, and, as this song we just sang made clear, to make sure God alone gets all the glory he is due.
Today, we're...
February 2, 2016
Sermon: Acts 17 - In the Culture to Evangelize the Culture
More than even before, Christians need to be able to make bridges to the gospel. Here, we look at Acts 17 where Paul, being motived by the glory of God, addresses people who didn't have a Christian worldview.
Audio TranscriptTake your Bibles and turn to Acts 17. We're going to start in verse 16 and by the time we get to verse 44, it might just be 44 degrees outside! We're going to look at the passage and come away with some take away that I'm putting in the category of ���being in the culture...
