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VBC 1st Video Sermon

Tomorrow, April 5, we will be showing our first video sermon on Facebook. It is pre-recorded and should be live at 11 AM, EST on VBC’s Facebook Page. On Easter Sunday, we hope to live stream the hymns and the sermon on VBC’s Facebook Page. Pray that we work out all the bugs. If you…

“For Their Sakes”

“For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.” (John 17:19 ) “For their sakes.” We must recognize, guilty sinners as we are, that it is for us that He has done all this. “I sanctify myself,” says the eternal Son of God, the holy and pure One, the…

The Proof of God’s Grace

God’s grace is illustrated and magnified in the poverty and trials of believers. Saints bear up under every discouragement, believing that all things work together for their good, and that out of apparent evils a real blessing shall ultimately spring—that their God will either work a deliverance for them speedily, or most assuredly support them…

Spurgeon: “He hath said…”

“He hath said” is the source of all wisdom, and the fountain of all comfort, let it dwell in you richly, as “A well of water, springing up unto everlasting life.” So shall you grow healthy, strong, and happy in the divine life. – C. H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening: Daily Readings, (London: Passmore &…

Spurgeon: A Striking Likeness of Jesus Christ

A Christian should be a striking likeness of Jesus Christ. You have read lives of Christ, beautifully and eloquently written, but the best life of Christ is his living biography, written out in the words and actions of his people. If we were what we profess to be, and what we should be, we should…

Spurgeon: The Name of Jesus

But if there be one name sweeter than another in the believer’s ear, it is the name of Jesus. Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It…

Spurgeon: Meditate on Heaven

. Christian, meditate much on heaven, it will help thee to press on, and to forget the toil of the way. This vale of tears is but the pathway to the better country: this world of woe is but the stepping-stone to a world of bliss. – C. H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening: Daily Readings,…

Spurgeon: God Answers Our Prayers

Your wants were innumerable, and therefore the supplies have been infinitely great, and your prayers have been as varied as the mercies have been countless. Then have you not cause to say, “I love the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplication”? For as your prayers have been many, so also have…

Rogers: Silver Doesn’t Satisfy

We live in a day that confuses luxuries and necessities. Material things can never bring contentment, for they can never satisfy the deepest need of your heart. Either you can’t get enough of them, or when you get them, you find out they don’t meet your need. Do you remember the story of the little…

Spurgeon: Remember God’s Mercies

Arise, go to the river of thine experience, and pull up a few bulrushes, and plait them into an ark, wherein thine infant-faith may float safely on the stream. Forget not what thy God has done for thee; turn over the book of thy remembrance, and consider the days of old. Canst thou not remember…

Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Justification vs. Sanctification

…justification removes the guilt of sin; sanctification removes the pollution of sin and renews us in the image of God. And therefore, last, by definition justification is a once-and-for-all act. It is never to be repeated because it cannot be repeated and never needs to be repeated. It is not a process but a declaration…