The Christian Heritage Center

The Christian Heritage Center is a ministry dedicated to honoring, preserving, and learning from the heritage of godly figures in the past to better serve the church today.

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CHC Founder & Director - Kyle Kearbey

I have served as the Pastor of Preaching at Grace Fellowship Church in Albion, Southeastern Illinois, for the past eight years. Grace Fellowship is a Reformed Baptist congregation holding to the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith. I remain humbled and thankful to my risen Lord for calling me to the ministry of the Word and entrusting me with the high privilege of pastoral service. I love the flock the Lord has given to my fellow elders and me.

We are honored to have The Christian Heritage Center as a God Centered Contributor. I am the official Website & Media Specialist for their ministry and I encourage your to check out their content and learn about godly figures from the past.

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⁶⁵ You have dealt well with Your slave,
O Yahweh, according to Your word.

Vav

⁶ And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth;
He has brought His appointed meeting place to ruin.
Yahweh has caused to be forgotten
The appointed time and sabbath in Zion,
And He has spurned king and priest
In the indignation of His anger.

Zayin

⁷ The Lord has rejected His altar;
He has abandoned His sanctuary;
He has delivered into the hand of the enemy
The walls of her palaces.
They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh
As in the day of an appointed time.

Heth

⁸ Yahweh determined to bring to ruin
The wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has stretched out a line;
He has not turned His hand back from swallowing up,
And He has caused rampart and wall to mourn;
They have languished together.

Teth

⁹ Her gates have sunk into the ground;
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations;
The law is no more.
Also, her prophets find
No vision from Yahweh.

Yodh

¹⁰ The elders of the daughter of Zion
Sit on the ground; they are silent.
They have thrown dust up on their heads;
They have girded themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem
Have bowed their heads down to the ground.
(Lamentations 2:6-10 LSB)

The Christian Heritage Center

The Christian Heritage Center is a ministry dedicated to honoring, preserving, and learning from the heritage of godly figures in the past to better serve the church today.

Christian Heritage Center Website

Christian Heritage Center YouTube Channel

CHC Founder & Director - Kyle Kearbey

I have served as the Pastor of Preaching at Grace Fellowship Church in Albion, Southeastern Illinois, for the past eight years. Grace Fellowship is a Reformed Baptist congregation holding to the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith. I remain humbled and thankful to my risen Lord for calling me to the ministry of the Word and entrusting me with the high privilege of pastoral service. I love the flock the Lord has given to my fellow elders and me.

We are honored to have The Christian Heritage Center as a God Centered Contributor. I am the official Website & Media Specialist for their ministry and I encourage your to check out their content and learn about godly figures from the past.

⁶⁴ The earth, O Yahweh, is full of Your lovingkindness;
Teach me Your statutes.

The almighty dollar! So many people, Christians, and Churches have fallen victim to loving money more than Christ!

Granted, like everything else, money, in and of itself, is not evil. For too long in my life, I assumed that money was the root of all evil because that is what so many say. However, Scripture does not say that. It says, “the love of money is a root of all sorts of evils.”

Money by itself is not evil. Scripture has a lot to say about money, and yet, it never says to fully stay away from it. It does, however, warn us from loving it. Keep in mind that anything we love more than the Lord our God is an idol. And yes, money can become an idol.

In fact, part of what can make a church unhealthy and even a dying church is the love of money and the worship of it like an idol. The love of money and the extraordinary measures taken to protect it are part and parcel with your typical dying church.

1 Timothy 6:10 is a warning to the individual Christian of how loving money can destroy one's life and faith. As is the case with those who have observed this and experienced it, those who aspire to love money find themselves pierced with all sorts of consuming grief!

In churches where the love of money is present, we find that the people come to serve its rule rather than Christ’s. Sola Scriptura is replaced with Sola Dollar or Sola Economics. Ministries and Bible teaching are suffocated under the burden of “proving that they need the money.” Budgets are created to reward the compliant and punish others.

In unhealthy churches, and in particular, congregationally ruled churches, you see “finance committees” wielding power through the economics of the church. Far too often, you hear, “We can’t afford that!” when what they really mean is “We don’t want to do that!”

Also, many vocational Elders/Pastors are punished by having their salary altered or reduced, all under the guise of “we need to save money.” Meanwhile, the Youth department or some other place that is committee-approved continues to receive funds unabated.

If the basic things that Scripture commands us to do require a certain level of money, then something is terribly wrong. There is no money needed to gather together, worship, sing, pray, preach/teach the Word of God.

I can hear it now…

BUT BUT BUT…….. We have to have a building! We have to have this and that! No, you don’t. Having a church building, especially a nice one, is a luxury and a blessing. It is not required. That is largely the problem with the typical unhealthy American church: we have become so spoiled that we assume our luxury is normative.

The next time your church associates the word “need” with proposed spending, ask if it is actually a need or not. You can find out who truly rules a church by asking how decisions around money are made.

We need to restore the proper plurality of biblically qualified Elders in our churches who will make these decisions and take these decisions out of unqualified and spiritually immature hands. There is a reason Elders are required and commanded to be qualified BEFORE conducting oversight. It is because we want to make sure they are the kind of people God wants to decide how His money for ministry is spent.

The collection and spending of God’s money should not be put to a congregational vote as a rule, so as not to upset the country club members. Healthy churches do not fight over money. Unhealthy churches die and split over it.

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The Trinity is one of the most important teachings of the Christian faith. It defines God's very essence and describes how he relates to us.

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May this book deepen your understanding of this important doctrine while also drawing you closer to the triune God himself.

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⁶³ I am a companion of all those who fear You,
And of those who keep Your precepts.

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⁶² At midnight I shall rise to give thanks to You
Because of Your righteous judgments.

The Lord’s Supper

¹⁴ And when the hour had come, He reclined at the table, and the apostles with Him. ¹⁵ And He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; ¹⁶ for I say to you, I shall never again eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” ¹⁷ And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He said, “Take this and share it among yourselves. ¹⁸ For I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine from now on until the kingdom of God comes.” ¹⁹ And when He had taken some bread and given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.” ²⁰ And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood. (Luke 22:14-20 LSB)

⁶¹ The cords of the wicked have encircled me,
But I have not forgotten Your law.

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Founded to take the exposition of God’s Word to all people, Exploring The Bible is a local and global ministry outreach of Dr. R. Jay Waggoner. In his work as a pastor, evangelist, conference speaker, and author, Dr. Waggoner has impacted thousands since 1974.

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⁶⁰ I hastened and did not delay
To keep Your commandments.