Teaching – Dr. Darryl Burling

I had the privilege of preaching twice in New Zealand recently during our Christmas break and thought I’d share one of those sermons here.  I preached the same sermon both times.  This is the longer of the two from Riverbend Bible Church in Hastings. This sermon was originally preached in August at Placerita Baptist Church (our … Sermon: Genesis 16 Read More »

It has been busy here, but it has been a good busy.  We are involved in ministry at our local church (placeritachurch.com) and occasionally, I have the opportunity to teach.  Today I was filling in for Dr Barrick in his adult Sunday School class, and I decided to start a study on 1 Thessalonians.  There … Intro to 1 Thessalonians Read More »

It is a scary thing preaching at Placerita Baptist Church.  And I have so much to learn. Here is my first sermon at PBC, on 1 John 1:8-10.  This is a great text to preach from, and there is so much in verse 5-10.

A few weeks ago (quite a few weeks ago – its been busy) I had the opportunity to teach in our Bereans Sunday School class at Placerita Baptist Church.  We are working through a series on Discipleship when our main teacher, Dr Barrick, is away.  This is my  contribution to that series. The text for … The church as community Read More »

I’ve been doing a homiletics class over the last seven or eight weeks. I’ve preached twice during it and have received valueable feedback both times. I’m grateful for the opportunity to hone my speaking ability and how I handle the word of God. While the first sermon wasn’t worth putting up here, the second one … Sermon: James 2 – Justification by works and saving faith Read More »

The story of David and Bathsheba is well known, but not known well enough.  We will often read it and not really check our own hearts as we ought and so we dont always take out everything that we can. Last weekend we went through this in our church and while we covered what God … David, Bathsheba and adultery Read More »