John MacArthur

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1.) 2 Corinthians
      Second Corinthians is the most personally revealing of all Paul's epistles. At the same time, it is perhaps the least familiar of all his inspired writings, often overlooked both by individual believers and preachers alike. The neglect of this magnificent epistle is an immense loss to the church, however, for it has much to offer. No one in minist ...read more

2.) A Crash Course in Christian Parenting
      Open your Bible to Ephesians, chapter 6. The key verse, really, here in the New Testament that gives to us God's design for parenting, is verse 4. It simply says, "And you, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord." It's a tremendous statement in that verse. It, again, with an economy ...read more

3.) A Good Soldier
      On June 12, 1944, just six days after D-Day in World War II, a young lieutenant named Richard Winters led his men to the outskirts of Carentan. As the officer in charge of Easy Company, of the 101st Airborne, he was tasked to clear the large French town of its German defenders. It would be a small battle, but it played a significant role in the mas ...read more

4.) A Jet Tour Through the Book of Revelation
      Well tonight we're in for, I trust, a great time. And in order to make the most of it, open your Bible to the book of Revelation. Tonight we have as our purpose a tour through this marvelous book. While you're turning to Revelation chapter 1 verse 1, let me just say that no book in Scripture reveals the glory of God and Christ in any more sple ...read more

5.) A Scriptural Critique of Infant Baptism
      A couple of weeks ago I gave a message on the issue of baptism and when I introduced that I was going to do that, I said that I wanted to give a follow-up message on the issue of infant baptism and I'm going to do that this morning. Now, I confess that this may seem a little more like a theological class lecture; you may feel like you've just enrol ...read more

6.) Altar Calls
      I noted for you earlier, in 1 Corinthians, chapter 2, Paul shunned manipulative oratory. He didn't do like many preachers do today. He wasn't into manipulating his crowd, he says in chapter 2, verse 1, of 1 Corinthians, "I didn't come with superiority of speech" (that's oratorical ability), I didn't come to bowl you over with my oration, I d ...read more

7.) Baptism: A Matter of Obedience
      I was flying across the country this week-a long flight-all the way to the east coast and the Lord always makes things serendipitous, always has a surprise or two; I was sitting next to a man who eventually took out a Bible and started reading it and as he was reading it, I said to him, "That's a Bible you've got there." He said, "It is," and I ...read more

8.) Built to the Master's Plan
      I realize I may be demonstrating little more than a firm grasp of the obvious when I tell you the contemporary church is looking more and more like a large corporation. Even church leaders are bearing a closer resemblance to CEOs and corporate executives than to humble, tender shepherds. Sadly, the good news -that a sinner can find forgiveness for ...read more

9.) But Does It Work?
      In this Age of Show Business, truth is irrelevant; what really matters is whether we are entertained. Substance counts for little; style is everything. In the words of Marshall McLuhan, the medium is the message. Unfortunately, that kind of thinking rules the church as surely as it does the world. A. W. Tozer wrote these words in 1955: For ...read more

10.) But What Does it Mean to Me?
      That's a fashionable concern, judging from the trends in devotional booklets, home Bible study discussions, Sunday-school literature, and most popular preaching. The question of what Scripture means has taken a back seat to the issue of what it means "to me." The difference may seem insignificant at first. Nevertheless, our obsession wit ...read more

11.) Can God Bless America?
      Obviously over the last number of weeks we have on Sunday nights been addressing issues that are on our minds and hearts at this time in our nation when we had been subjected to terrorists' attacks. I'm trying to keep up with all of the nuances, all of the twists and turns in the road as we go and try to shed some biblical light on the issues at ...read more

12.) Charismatic Chaos: "Are experiences a valid source of truth?"
      We are going to embark upon a study of the Charismatic movement, the contemporary Charismatic movement that surrounds us in the Evangelical Church. Back in 1977, to be exact, I preached a series on the movement, or maybe a little even before that year. But a book came from it which I spent 1977 writing. That book was entitled, "The Charismatics." ...read more

13.) Charismatic Chaos: "Does God do miracles today?"
      In our ongoing study of the Charismatic movement today, I want to jump right into a subject that I know I can't completely cover. But I want you to learn to think Biblically about this because I am very concerned about it. Today, we hear an awful lot of talk about miracles. Somebody says, "I had a financial need and a miracle happened. The ma ...read more

14.) Charismatic Chaos: "Does God promise Health and Wealth? (Part 1)"
      The subject tonight in our study of the Charismatic Chaos is the Health, Wealth, and Prosperity gospel. We can title this message with a question, "Does God Promise Health and Wealth?" When I was in the Soviet Union a couple of weeks ago they said to me, "We want you to preach on the 'Health and Wealth' gospel." I was talking to hundreds ...read more

15.) Charismatic Chaos: "Does God promise Health and Wealth? (Part 2)"
      Tonight we want to go back to our study of the contemporary Charismatic movement. This movement has many fascinations, many unique things. While you are kind of getting your mind geared: Phil Johnson was just telling me (Phil is executive director of Grace to You) and he said the other day a lady called the 800 line and she had good news for us. Sh ...read more

16.) Charismatic Chaos: "Does God still give prophecies?"
      In our study of this most fascinating and important subject of the Charismatic movement in our contemporary time, we come tonight to message number three in our series; and we are going to be building on the prior message dealing with "Does God still give Revelation?" as we talk about "Are there still Prophecies from God?", another very importa ...read more

17.) Charismatic Chaos: "Does God still give revelation today?"
      I want to just preface the message tonight, really a study of an issue rather than a text, which is a little unfamiliar to us as normally we are in certain texts of Scripture. But I want to preface it with just a couple of comments. First of all, I want to say that I am very much aware of the fact that not everyone who is associated with the Charis ...read more

18.) Charismatic Chaos: "Does God still heal?"
      Well, as you know, we are involved in a study of the Charismatic movement, the contemporary movement, and tonight we come to a section entitled, "Does God Still Heal?" Now, in the messages that I have been giving we have intersected with the thoughts about healing, and we have said some things about that in some of our prior studies and we are no ...read more

19.) Charismatic Chaos: "How do spiritual gifts operate?"
      As a preface to our study tonight, I want to just mention to you that we are going through this study on the Charismatic movement, its contemporary form. And I am unable in this particular study to cover every relevant passage of Scripture, and so I would just encourage you that you will find a series of tapes on all of the relevant passages that I ...read more