For the Glory of God: Messages from Bro. D Daren York

This is a very special one.  The sermon outline was about the key things we need to know in order to identify false teachers, but throughout the sermon, the Holy Spirit provided comfort as we grieved for our beloved Estelle Green, who had died just a few hours earlier.  Brian started recording as Daren and I sang "That Sounds Like Home to Me" (you mostly hear Daren singing harmony because the recording is from his microphone).  He was pretty long-winded that day, but it's worth it to listen to the whole thing because toward the end he shares about a special moment he had with Estelle and his own thoughts about death and Heaven.  Recorded at First Baptist Church Red Springs September 8, 2013.  (The picture is of Daren's notes for Estelle's funeral that I found after he died.)

It's easy to say you are going to do something, but how do you know if you are actually committed to it? Recorded January 2012, Bro. Daren explores the difference between resolution and commitment.

Everyone will go through a crisis at some time. How do you pass the crisis test? In this message from Acts 16, Bro. Daren uses Paul and Silas' midnight praise in the prison to answer the question. Recorded in 2012 at First Baptist Church Red Springs. (Audio starts at 0:06 mark.)

This message from March 11, 2012 is known as "THE Sermon" at our church. That day Bro. Daren taught us that, just as with the man born blind, Jesus sees what we don't see and that sometimes the things that happen to us are simply for God's glory. Even as Bro. Daren called cancer by name, he did not know that within a few hours he would be diagnosed with a mass on his brain, and that by the end of the week he would have undergone two major surgeries for Stage 4 colon cancer.

Recorded March 4, 2012, Bro. Daren explains the meaning of baptism.

Recorded February 2012, Bro. Daren continues in Romans 5. "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."