Posts by Matt Recker
2022 FBFI NYC Regional Fellowship
September 13, 2022 9:00 am – 12:30 Followed by Luncheon Bethel Baptist Fellowship 2304 Voorhies Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11235 Host: Pastor Jim Bickel We are thrilled to announce our 2022 FBFI NYC Regional Fellowship with fellow NYC area pastors & wives and the folks of our churches on Tuesday, September 13th. All are invited! This…
Read MoreThe Equality Act = Discrimination Against Christians
Like never before, an assault against Biblical Christianity, the church, the family, and our children in America exists today. Those who defy God’s Word regarding our sexual identity are in power and preying on the curiosity of precious children and luring them to experiment in ways that would destroy their lives. Dr. Ben Carson, brilliant…
Read MoreBodily and Spiritual Exercise
Scripture says in 1 Timothy 4:7-8, “Refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise that which now is, and of that which is to come.” During this time when we “sheltering in place,” it is vital…
Read MorePlagues in the Bible
The Corona Virus Pandemic is bigger than politics and bigger than any one nation. It is what God is doing in our world. What God is doing is bigger than anything you will hear on the news. He is working an eternal work, to bring us to Him, to bring us to repentance. So, from…
Read MoreAn Open Letter to Roger Goodell
February 3, 2020 Commissioner Roger Goodell NFL Corporate Office 345 Park Avenue New York, NY 10154 Dear Commissioner Goodell, This is the first time I have ever felt compelled to write a letter to the NFL corporate office. I have been an avid football fan my entire life, and I thoroughly enjoyed the recent Super…
Read MoreThe New York Times Assault on Hell
The New York Times published an editorial, Why Do People Believe in Hell, on January 10, 2020 by David Bentley Hart that makes an all-out assault on the Biblical doctrine of hell. Hart says that the doctrine of “eternal damnation is neither biblically, philosophically, nor morally justified.” Not only this, but he advocates a universal…
Read MoreThree Reasons We Cannot Quit
Jeremiah 20:7-13 The Confessions of Jeremiah, part 4 I can imagine someone in Jeremiah’s day thinking, “Jeremiah has lost his emotional stability and sanity. He needs crisis counseling, so let’s have a talk with him and tell him it is time for him to quit and pack it in.” They could have said things like…
Read MoreJeremiah’s Victorious Vision
The Confessions of Jeremiah, part 3 Jeremiah 17:12-18 In this world of woe and war, we need a victorious vision. As Moses saw Him who was invisible (Hebrews 11:27), Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up sitting on His throne (Isaiah 6:1), the Apostle John saw Jesus glorified (Revelation 1:12-18), so Jeremiah sees the…
Read MoreFive Keys to Enduring Pain
Jeremiah 15:10-21 The Confessions of Jeremiah, part 2 Life is very painful and probably more painful than we thought it would be, but the Prophet Jeremiah can help us through our own pain. In the midst of his agony in ministry, he says, “Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to…
Read MoreTrusting God in Traumatic Times
The Confessions of Jeremiah, Part 1 Jeremiah 11:18-Jeremiah 12:6 Jeremiah 12:5-6 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? For even…
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