Sermons & Devotionals by Dick Sipley

In 1978 Better Homes & Gardens took a poll & said: 76% of family life is in desperate trouble. A poll taken amongst 2500 educators & counsellors said: 66% of the churches are not doing an adequate job of promoting & maintaining family life. 93% of the youth are not receiving adequate preparation for... Read More

TEXT: Luke 16:19-31, The Rich Man & Lazarus In other stories Jesus says they are parables, but in this one He does not call it a parable. This is reality. Mt. 25:41, "...depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil & his angels..." Hell is God's last act of kindness for u... Read More

2 Tim. 3:2,4 - Men shall be lovers of their own selves, lovers of pleasure. 2 Tim. 3:3 - But men will be without natural affection. This is the reason for their selfish love. When love is a feeling, that is natural human affection. Natural human affection is always based on something within the pers... Read More

Gen.2:18 WHAT ARE THE PROPER ROLES FOR A HUSBAND & WIFE TO OCCUPY IN A MARRIAGE? 1. EQUALITY, Gen. 1:26-29 -The husband & wife stand in quality before God--in His image. They both can walk close to God. -They are commissioned equally by God--dominion over the earth, go into all the world to preach t... Read More

Text: Heb. 13:4; I Cor. 7:1-13 In these days virginity is laughed at by many & couples are living together before marriage--but God says marriage is honorable & the bed undefiled. Sex is not shameful; only perversion or the wrong use of sex is shameful. Gen. 1:31, God's creation...was very good; it ... Read More

By Rev. Dick Sipley - At Briercrest, SK, 1991 - 7 Pages Transcribed You notice I laid my watch down on the desk. It reminded me immediately of the man who took his friend to church, and his friend had never been to church and was totally ignorant of everything that was going on. As they were going t... Read More

By Rev. Dick Sipley - At Briercrest, SK, 1991 - 7 Pages Transcribed The question was asked: Did I say yesterday that a Christian could be demon possessed? No, I did not say that. I don't like to use the word "possessed" because it is not a genuinely Biblical word. The words "demon possessed," in mos... Read More

There is a difference between a defeated life & a victorious life, whether I accept it willingly or unwillingly. LOVE: HUMAN & DIVINE--There is a difference between human love & divine love, & you can't make human love into divine love--it won't work. Eph. 4:32, "And be ye kind one to another, tende... Read More

Text: Isa. 56:10-11; Ezek. 34:1-10 -Illustration: A man and his family were fleeing their home church because of what happened in the past. The pastor unwittingly had wounded this family and didn't know how to love his people and thus put this family in bondage. They were bitter, but now sought to b... Read More

Text: Rom. 12:1-2 Let us please open our Bibles to the Book of Romans, chapter 12, verses 1-2... I believe with all my heart that every sincere Christian wants to live and walk in God's perfect will. We often desire to do God's will but are not doing it. We've confessed sin, dealt with self, but dri... Read More

-The Church is to be as one big family. Glad I am in CRF because all work together as a family. We can do nothing except through the Spirit of God. -Mt. 15:1-9, Scribes & Pharisees--traditions of elders, didn't take care of their father & mother--honored with mouth & lips but heart far from me. -I w... Read More