Stillwater Reformed Presbyterian Church Podcasts: Preaching and Teaching

Disciple your own heart and soul to respond to the glory of God by honoring Him in public worship.

This session explores the goal of discipleship as becoming conformed to the image of Christ through a relational approach to spiritual disciplines. Pastor Parnell emphasizes evaluating one's current spiritual state and setting intentional goals for growth in grace. Practical advice is provided on establishing consistent times and places for Bible reading while avoiding mechanical or legalistic habits. Various Bible reading plans are suggested to help believers engage with Scripture effectively according to their available time and maturity level. The message concludes by encouraging accountability and the use of simple study methods to deepen understanding and application of God's Word.

Spend time with God every day in prayer.

Psalter selection: 148 A

Spend time with God every day by reading your Bible.

Wisdom calls, "Come to the Lord! Choose this day whom you will serve." Will you serve Wisdom? Will you follow Christ?

Sermons by guest ministers at Stillwater RPC, or sermons outside of the main series being preached at the time.

Solomon personifies Wisdom and in so doing prefigures Christ. As vs. 35 says, "Whoever finds me finds life, and obtains favor from the Lord." To find life, find Christ.

The lesson defines discipleship as the lifelong pursuit of holiness and a mature trust in God, emphasizing that it involves both private disciplines and corporate edification. It identifies prayer as a vital two-way conversation with God rather than a mechanistic ritual, highlighting Jesus Christ as the sole mediator. The teaching then introduces fasting as a spiritual discipline used to refine focus, express repentance, and seek divine direction for pressing needs. Specifically, the congregation is called to observe a day of prayer and fasting to intercede for faithful church leadership in light of recent moral failures within the broader association of denominations. This collective act aims to humble believers before God and request grace for purity and strength among those who shepherd the flock.

Psalter selection: 90B

Sexual temptation looks exciting and satisfying, but in the end, it will ruin you.

Christ is your life!

Wisdom calls you to put off rash obligations and put on generosity. Put off laziness and put on diligence. Put off discord and put on unity.

Put off the old self--the self that continually sins, lives in sin, and takes pleasure in sin. Put on the new self--the self being renewed according to the image of God, in truth, righteousness, and holiness.

Avoid sexual sin! It looks exciting and satisfying, but in the end it will ruin you.

Psalter selection: 89D.

Follow the path of wisdom and avoid the path of the wicked.

Since you have been raised with Christ, seek and set your minds on the things above, where Christ is.

Train your heart to deepen and develop wisdom.

Listen to wisdom and pursue it.

Psalter selection: 88A.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Therefore, get wisdom.

Let us respond to Jesus' Great Commission to make disciples of all the nations by going, baptizing, and teaching.

Since Christ has laid hold of you for a purpose, therefore, press on to lay hold of the prize.

Because you are a new creation in Christ, put off the old and put on the new.

SRPC enjoys a meditation on a psalm, to be sung all month as our Psalm of the Month. A ministry of the Stillwater Reformed Presbyterian Church of Stillwater, Oklahoma, glorifying Jesus Christ through biblical worship.

Psalter selection 87B. Rev. Parnell, in Psalm 87, explains that the psalm reveals God's purpose to spread the gospel to the ends of the earth, beginning with His covenant love for the Jewish people, symbolized by His love for Jerusalem and His presence in the temple. God loves Zion because it is the city of His people, where He met with them and provided grace through the temple sacrifices, to which the people responded in worship ("all my springs are in you"). The middle verses were show that God's love also extends to non-Jewish peoples—including Israel's enemies such as Egypt (Rahab), Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiopia—who are counted as "born" in Jerusalem among God's people. Rev. Parnell connects the census imagery to God recording and saving individuals by name, and points forward to Jesus Christ as the one who, through his sacrifice, brings people into the people of God. The meditation closes by referencing the Lamb's Book of Life as a final census still open to those who trust in Christ.

Because you are a new creation in Christ, put off the old and put on the new.

A guest preacher for SRPC, or Rev. R. Bruce Parnell in a sermon apart from his main series, preaches from the Word of God. A ministry of the Stillwater Reformed Presbyterian Church of Stillwater, Oklahoma, glorifying Jesus Christ through biblical teaching.

Sermons by guest ministers at Stillwater RPC, or sermons outside of the main series being preached at the time.

A guest preacher for SRPC, or Rev. R. Bruce Parnell in a sermon apart from his main series, preaches from the Word of God. A ministry of the Stillwater Reformed Presbyterian Church of Stillwater, Oklahoma, glorifying Jesus Christ through biblical teaching.

Sermons by guest ministers at Stillwater RPC, or sermons outside of the main series being preached at the time.

Since you are united to Christ in your salvation, put to death your old, sinful way of life.

Since you are united to Christ in your salvation, put to death your old, sinful way of life.

Jesus is the author and finisher of your faith, therefore run the race of the Christian life with your eyes fixed on Him.

Jesus is the author and finisher of your faith, therefore run the race of the Christian life with your ees fixed on Him.

God shows you mercy in Christ, who died for your sins, and was raised for your justification. Ask God for mercy and rest in Jesus.

God shows you mercy in Christ, who died for your sins, and was raised for your justification. Ask God for mercy and rest in Jesus.

The Lord Jesus Christ has entrusted the gospel to you. Guard it and proclaim it.

The Lord Jesus Christ has entrusted the gospel to you. Guard it and proclaim it.

Raise your children up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

Raise your children up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

You cannot serve both God and money

You cannot serve both God and money.

A guest preacher for SRPC, or Rev. R. Bruce Parnell in a sermon apart from his main series, preaches from the Word of God. A ministry of the Stillwater Reformed Presbyterian Church of Stillwater, Oklahoma, glorifying Jesus Christ through biblical teaching.

Sermons by guest ministers at Stillwater RPC, or sermons outside of the main series being preached at the time.

SRPC enjoys a meditation on a psalm, to be sung all month as our Psalm of the Month. A ministry of the Stillwater Reformed Presbyterian Church of Stillwater, Oklahoma, glorifying Jesus Christ through biblical worship.

If God be for us, who can be against us? Encourage yourself in the Lord with His character and worship, and then you'll have not only the weapons to fight the good fight but the courage to use them.

Psalter selection: 84B. This meditation presents Psalm 84 as a pilgrimage psalm, expressing the soul's longing for the courts of the Lord and the presence of God made possible through Christ the Anointed One. The psalm describes the Christian life as a journey through valleys of tears toward the goal of appearing before God's face, strengthened by Jesus our great High Priest.

If God be for us, who can be against us? Encourage yourself in the Lord with His character and worship, and then you'll have not only the weapons to fight the good fight but the courage to use them.