November 30, 2018 Show with Jon Cardwell on “Christo-Centric Preaching & Teaching” (& an update on the recent earthquake in Alaska)

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Earthquake in Alaska and Prayer for the Injured

I'm delighted to have back as a returning guest after a very long absence my friend Pastor John J. Cardwell. He is pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Nanilchik, Alaska and he is an author of several books including the new devotional series Jesus Christ the Bread of Life and today Pastor John is going to be addressing Christocentric preaching and teaching and he's also going to be giving us an update on the recent earthquake in Alaska and it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Pastor John J.

Cardwell. Well I consider that a great honor. As much of that as what you said was true.

And that is certainly a humbling and wonderful thing to hear. Well first of all tell our listeners about Calvary Baptist Church in Nanilchik, Alaska since the last time you were on. I don't believe you were pastoring that specific congregation.

You may have been, I just don't.

Remember right now because it's been so long. You're correct Chris, we were actually in Alaska. That's right. Can you see Russia from your house?

Well we've got a lot to talk about today. Why don't you first of all start with an update on the earthquake in Alaska that has been quite devastating in Anchorage I believe.

Yes sir, 5 .7. Are you aware yet about any casualties in Anchorage area? I have not many people in Alaska. Well I would urge all of the Iron Sharpens Iron Radio listeners.

To pray for the residents of Alaska especially Anchorage because you never know there might be even more earthquakes on the heels of the ones they've already experienced. And we ask of you that if there are any living individuals who are trapped anywhere that they are rescued.

And we ask of you all also to pray for healing for those who have been injured and pray for the families of anyone who may have perished and that this will be used as a providential occurrence in the lives of the lost that they may be drawn to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ after experiencing this.

And of course that true Christians might be even further brought to repentance and transformed lives as a result of this if they have been backsliding or beginning to slip away from the first love of their lives Jesus Christ.

But please keep Alaska in your prayers. Now there's a lot to talk about. Also because we want to have since you've been absent from our show for such a long time I'd like to have you give a recount of your salvation testimony and I think it might be helpful after you go through your salvation testimony I'm not mentioning it now just so I don't forget I think it might be helpful to our listeners who may have been diagnosed perhaps even wrongly diagnosed with ALS that you give something about an update on your health report because of the fact that that is such a frightening uh illness and you were wrongly diagnosed with that or at least there was a suspicion given uh presented to you that that may be what you were battling which is quite a terrifying notion but before we get to that uh give us your salvation testimony once again.

I dropped out of college went to 1984 and God surrounds me with knowing of the competition.

Between knowing of the competition between the during different branches of the service I'm surprised that a regular army or marine joke didn't come up in that discussion.

Great 85 to be a diver. So he worked for me. So I put. Didn't hear a word he said but everything that the word was bringing articulate many of the thing that I. In the dive locker and they go no that's not.

Well what. Uh what was it that made you know that you had a calling upon your life to become a pastor. Um surgeries. There I went right into the to the mission field. Philippine mission field. I didn't think I was called to be a pastor but I.

I love the shirt. Great. My wife. I was stationed in the Philippines. That they're they show. Well the Philippines holds a special place in my heart because the children. Or at.

Least five of the six children of the women of the woman who led me to Christ in the 1980s are half Filipino and uh none of them are born again yet but I've developed very close friendships with them and they appear to be being drawn by God uh.

So keep them in your prayer uh. But it's interesting how you brought up uh cursing before because a couple of them uh every sentence had a curse in it and it's interesting. I guess they just got tired of saying sorry sorry sorry.

So it's it's like that it's vanished from their vocabulary at.

Least when they're around me. Well I interrupted you though. You were going to say you're going to continue on about your calling into the ministry. I believe. Yeah. I'll go during the gospel. Well as uh I know that my listeners might be rolling my eyes if they listen to my show long.

Enough but I'm going to repeat a joke and I don't even think it was necessarily completely a joke but I'm from New York which uh the the second left coast if you will and um I was speaking years ago with a reformed preacher from Mississippi uh in fact he was a not only a Presbyterian but a theonomist an elderly gentleman with a real deep gravelly southern voice and when he found out during our conversation that I was from New York or maybe I just made it very evident by my accent uh he said well you guys in New York you got it easy because all you got to do is get.

People saved. We got to get them lost and then get them saved. I just can't help repeating it because it's so funny but you know it's oh China. How about let's go to China and nobody should.

Uh what you know. You know one thing not to sorry for interrupting you but uh one thing that I have found it's interesting. I don't know if this is as large a phenomenon as my own experience would reveal but uh the United Methodist Church which is obviously known today as an extremely liberal even apostate denomination and yet when I have encountered people specifically from ethnic groups that dominate a particular United Methodist congregation uh especially when they are conducting services in a foreign language or so on like Korean or Chinese they tend to be a lot more conservative than the mainstream United Methodist American churches lily white ones etc.

I don't know if that's I don't know if as I said any larger than my own experience or that phenomena right. And I think that the denomination where if a local uh predominantly Caucasian American congregation were were going into a much farther right turn direction uh the denomination might come down on them uh but they I think that they tend to leave the ethnic congregations alone.

Yes. By the way when did you actually discover and embrace the doctrines of sovereign grace.

Um I had uh early that's right I read the Pilgrim's Progress for the first.

Yeah it's amazing how universally beloved the Pilgrim's Progress is even outside of because you are amazed that Christians even very learned ones who are not Calvinist cannot see the doctrines of grace screaming through the pages of that and of course Charles Spurgeon's sermons and anything he has written.

It's amazing that you have some fundamentalists and others who hate Calvinism who claim to love Spurgeon and you wonder have you really read or reread the things that you say. You love because how can you how can you miss the fact that.

He he believed in the doctrines of sovereign grace. But anyway I'm sorry no that's in fact.

We're going to pick up on Pilgrim's Progress when we come back and then we'll get into the meat of our topic today fairly shortly after God willing. But if anybody has a question that they'd like to ask of John J Cardwell especially about Christocentric preaching and teaching although since he is a pastor we will broaden the sphere of subjects from which you can choose to ask questions.

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I would like to recommend the church where one of my preaching students andy woodard serves as the pastor. It's called new covenant church nyc. They are a reformed baptist church that meets in midtown manhattan.

You can find their service times and location on their website which is www dot ncc dot nyc. They believe in a sovereign god who commands all men everywhere to repent and believe the gospel. If you're looking for a church that believes in expository preaching which is simply biblical preaching in new york city i'd like to recommend that you visit new covenant church nyc again.

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And uh it's very good to know that a church like new covenant church nyc exists in the most religiously and ethnically diverse mission field i think in the world. New york city. And also uh one that is very left-leaning in that area.

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And if you are living in manhattan we hope that you join there. Uh and uh please let them know that you heard about them from chris arnzen and i interpret his iron radio. We are now back with our guest today john j cardwell pastor of calvary baptist church in nanilchik alaska and author of several books including the new devotional jesus christ the bread of life.

We are going to be soon discussing our main theme christocentric preaching and teaching. If you'd like to join us on the air our email address is chris arnzen at gmail .com. And john you are in the stage of your testimony in regard to your call to the ministry where you had embraced the doctrines of sovereign grace after hearing them through such great minds as charles hadden spurgeon and john bunyan.

And you were we.

Were discussing pilgrim's progress. If you want to pick up where you left off. Yes spurgeon actually.

Uh and i know i'm going to butcher the quote because i don't have it in front of me but he said of john bunyan that his blood is bib line anywhere you prick him oozes out the bible or.

Like that yeah yeah there you go. I would use this expression.

Now no yankee i'm sorry if i forgot already but where are you from. Originally i was born in san.

Diego that's right now. The son of a son of a sailor is in a song isn't it. I think it is. No i don't think it is. That's why you and i probably aren't as familiar with it.

So you are now the doctrines of grace became but came i should say into your belief system before you were ordained into the ministry or after.

Uh before which was a methodist church that is. And i told my.

By the way just to let you know are you familiar with dr tony costa my friend over at toronto baptist.

Seminary. Yes i am familiar with him. Have. Never. Well he's a wonderful brother. Uh brilliant and.

Yet humble one of those rare combinations but he is a obviously being on the faculty at toronto baptist seminary. He's a believer in a very strong believer in the doctrines of sovereign grace and the 1689 confession and so on.

Uh but he is now on the pastoral team at a wesleyan church in canada near toronto. And the other pastor there is also a reformed baptist so that's quite interesting that this wesleyan church has called two men on to be their shepherds.

Under shepherds who are thoroughly reformed saved in a primitive methodist church. That's right. In a blizzard. During a blizzard. Right right. And uh.

And believe it or not there are i have met pastors in the united methodist denomination who are reformed baptists. Who they they cannot i guess officially adopt the 1689 or other calvinist confession as the confession of the congregation.

But they as a uh as a personal conviction they they are governed by uh the 1689 or other calvinist confession uh as their secondary uh authority in the church. But anyway uh just thought i'd uh share that with you because it is interesting to meet them at.

Reformed conferences on occasion. That's amazing. I have to move out of the state anyway to find a job. How about. Never never would have guessed that. Uh now now you have uh reached the point.

Where you are a sovereign grace believing pastor and the lord eventually brought you back to alaska.

And i'm sure that the saints in alaska in your area are very grateful to god for that. Well i hope.

That some of my alaskan listeners are tuned in today because i know that we do have listeners in alaska. We have received on occasion for uh quite a number of years uh questions for our guests from alaska and so i hope that either they're listening live or they will eventually hear it and that those that are near you if they're not at your congregation already that they wind up there.

Yes sir. Well we're going to our midway break and when we return we will be in. We will begin our discussion on christocentric preaching. This is our longer break than normal because grace life radio 90 .1 fm in lake city florida requires of us a longer break in the middle because they have to localize iron trump and zion radio to florida there lake city florida and they air their own public service announcements and commercials during this break.

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