Our Pastor is currently preaching from two books.  Sunday Morning is in Philippians and Sunday Evening is out of First Corinthians.  Preaching expository through books of the Bible is very valuable.

First, preaching verse by verse ensures that the congregation is getting a faithful and full proclamation of the Word of God.   This preaching lets God speak rather than man, because it declares God’s own Word.

Second, preaching the Word is the only right way to preach because it brings the preacher into direct contact with the mind of the Holy Spirit, the author of Scripture. It is for that reason that the preacher of the Word finds the process of study and discovery to be even more rewarding than the preaching that results from it, gratifying as that can be.

Third, preaching the Word  forces the preacher to proclaim all of God’s revelation, including those truths that even many believers find hard to learn or accept.  Consider the typical topical based preacher.  Topics can be chosen without a systematic approach to Scripture and the hard sayings and difficult doctrines can easily be ignored and the congregation suffers from an incomplete presentation of God’s Word. 

Fourth, preaching the Word is important because it promotes biblical literacy in a congregation, not only through what is learned from the sermon itself but also through the increased desire to study Scripture more carefully and consistently on their own. The faithful pastor, and all other faithful believers, love to learn God’s Word because they love the God of the Word.

Fifth, preaching the Word is important because it carries ultimate authority. It is the complete and perfect self-revelation of God Himself and of His divine will for mankind, which He has created in His own image.

Sixth, preaching the Word is important because only that kind of preaching can transform both the preacher and the congregation.

Finally, the final and most compelling reason that preaching the Word is the only right way to preach is simply that it is His own Word, and only His own Word, that the Lord calls and commissions His preachers to proclaim.

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Our July 4th Outreach was an incredible day with over 6,000 Gospel Tracts being given out, numerous witnessing encounters and several sermons being preached to the crowd.  You can see some photos of the event at our Evangelism Blog.  You can see the Tract that we custom made for the event here.

If you have read this book or know someone that has, we encourage you to download the following reviews of the book.

Review By Tim Challies

2 Page Review

Review By Norm Geisler

VBS Gospel Presentation from Ten-Four Ministries on Vimeo.

God’s character is righteousness and justice, with none of that being of a boring nature.

Join Pastor Shane Kastler as he preaches from Psalm 97:1-7 and he answers the question why we would have thoughts about God being boring.

We encourage you to listen to this powerful message on God’s character which not only includes wrath but the ultimate love.

The Gospel of John has been used more frequently than any other to bring people to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ; it was written for that purpose. It is our hope that many hurting homes and broken lives will be helped by the message of this incredible book. The promise of Scripture is that the Word of God “shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” (Isa. 55:11). It is with this in mind that we send this “good news” into the heart of our cities hoping to reach the hearts in the homes to which they are sent. This is our burden. We hope you will share it.

“If you want a reason for not loving Christ don’t turn to John. He knew Him too long. I don’t believe a man can read the gospel of John without being turned to Christ.” — D. L. Moody

“The best book in the world to put into the hands of one who desires to know about Jesus and to be saved is the gospel of John.” — R. A. Torrey

“This is the unique, tender, genuine, chief Gospel…Should a tyrant succeed in destroying the Holy Scriptures and only a single copy of the Epistle to the Romans and the Gospel according to John escape him, Christianity would be saved.” — Martin Luther