Pastor Shaun Marksbury

  Two Ways of Thinking (John 8:21–30) Series:               “John: Life in Christ’s Name”           Text:                 John 8:21–30 By:                    Shaun Marksbury                         Date:                Aug. 27, 2023 Venue:              Living Water Baptist Church             Occasion:             AM Service   I.               Introduction Today, we have satellites and technology with which we can look down upon the earth.   We can use lasers from space to measure the heights of mountains and the movement of shorelines.   We can craft intricate and accurate maps for the globes that we see adorning classrooms and bookshelves, not to mention what we can pull up on our phones and computers today. Yet, incredibly, globes have been around for thousands of years.   Without our technology, Greek thinkers were able to utilize mathematics, experiments, and simply observation to determine the shape of our world.   They didn’t just determine what coastlin

  The Armor of Spiritual Warfare (Eph. 6:14–17) Series:               Ephesians: Building the Church          Text:                 Ephesians 6:14–17 By:                    Shaun Marksbury                         Date:                Aug. 27, 2023 Venue:              Living Water Baptist Church             Occasion:          PM Service   I.               Introduction What causes the cultural decline we’ve been seeing?   For instance, just in recent years, we’ve seen the media use the invented word “trouple” to describe polyamorous relationships. [1]   That was reporting from Colorado, and in Utah, where Mormon sects still engage in the practice, state legislators have considered the decriminalization of polygamy. [2]   When so-called same-sex marriage was still a point of legal debate across this country, many predicted it opened this very door, but the moral revolutionaries responded that such reasoning was the result of a slippery-slope fallacy; it’s bitterswe

  Spiritual Warfare (Eph. 6:10–13) Series:               Ephesians: Building the Church          Text:                 Ephesians 6:10–13 By:                    Shaun Marksbury                         Date:                Aug. 20, 2023 Venue:              Living Water Baptist Church             Occasion:          PM Service   I.               Introduction People are growing more antagonistic toward religion today, particularly toward our Christian heritage, and have engaged in efforts to make the cultural town square more secular, separated from God.   As our culture has supposedly becomes more secularized, it’s entering an era of mass confusion.   We see it all around us.   Much of this we’ve considered before — for instance, the accepted institution of marriage now losing its meaning, and people are questioning the nature of gender itself.   Our moral compass has lost true north. But western culture is only supposedly becoming more secularized.   Folks expec