Pastor Shaun Marksbury

  Figuring Out About Jesus ( John 7:10–18) Series:               “John: Life in Christ’s Name”           Text:                 John 7:10–18 By:                    Shaun Marksbury                         Date:                June 25, 2023 Venue:              Living Water Baptist Church             Occasion:             AM Service   I.               Introduction We’ve been talking a lot about people close to the faith who either disbelieve or who walk away from the faith.   This is a hard topic because we can see people who apparently have lived a hypocritical faith, one that was superficial or never really there.   These are those who sat next to us, but now they break the commandments of God and feel little remorse.   Just as difficult are those who have never examined their faith, who never considered (or cared) that they might be hypocritical.   Some sin in highhanded ways and yet try to keep it quiet at church.   Yet, as Moses said in Numbers 32:23, you can

Biography; links referenced in the lesson: Baptist Faith and Message , Article 6, "The Church" https://bfm.sbc.net/bfm2000/#vi Saddleback Instagram post announcing the ordination of women pastors: https://www.instagram.com/p/COlsXgCBo9b/  "Rick Warren Reveals Successor, Retirement Date as Saddleback Church Pastor" https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/june/rick-warren-retirement-saddleback-church-pastor-andy-wood.html Mike Law's list of SBC churches with female pastors (originally posted at SBC Voices, but the list was taken down, so this is the archive version): https://web.archive.org/web/20230404021912/https://www.baptiststandard.com/wp-content/uploads/Mike-Law-list-Churches-with-Female-Pastors-from-churches.sbc_.net_-compressed.pdf "Video! Rick Warren Rebukes the SBC for Daring to Remove his Church over Ordaining Women" https://protestia.com/2022/06/15/video-rick-warren-rebukes-the-sbc-for-daring-to-remove-his-church-over-ordaining-women/ Ri

  The Submission of Wives (Eph. 5: 22–25 ) Series:               Ephesians: Building the Church          Text:                 Ephesians 5:22–25 By:                    Shaun Marksbury                         Date:                June 11, 2023 Venue:              Living Water Baptist Church             Occasion:          PM Service   I.               Introduction What we just read is condemned in many quarters.   This passage has grown in controversy over the past hundred or so years.   It used to be common to see marriages which were what we could call complementarian, where each spouse fulfilled a particular role in the relationship, with men leading and working while wives cared for the children and made the home.   However, over time, this began to be replaced with a more egalitarian view, where all the responsibilities in the home are split and both spouses work, with neither claiming real authority in the home. We can see the debate in seemingly small wa

  The Worldliness Next to Godliness ( John 7:1–9) Series:               “John: Life in Christ’s Name”           Text:                 John 7:1–9 By:                    Shaun Marksbury                         Date:                June 17, 2023 Venue:              Living Water Baptist Church             Occasion:             AM Service   I.               Introduction We often wrongly think of worldliness simply in terms of behavior and culture.   In hyper-fundamentalist circles, men who wear their hair too long and women whose hair is too short might be deemed as worldly.   Other signs of infection of the world might be women wearing pants, men wearing shorts, people going to the theater, playing cards, both sexes at the swimming pool or beach, and so forth.   I remember briefly attending a fundamentalist Bible college which had such items listed in a code of conduct students had to sign; when I asked the basis for such regulations, I was told that these were the