Eric Ludy Sermon Podcast: Church at Ellerslie Eric Ludy

This is the fifth and final part of Eric Ludy’s series on Spiritual Gifts. This message dives into the deep end of the pool and attempts to deal with the extremely challenging issue of modern-day apostles and prophets in the Church. With the startling emergence of self-proclaimed “apostles" and “prophets" in today’s Christian landscape, this message is of critical importance for the Bible believer—supplying a context for these strange and mystifying concepts and how to Biblically address them.

Please note: we had an audio issue at the beginning of the message, so there is a room echo for the first two minutes of the message. Sorry for the inconvenience.
This is the fourth part to Eric Ludy’s series on Spiritual Gifts. This message addresses the cumbrous challenge of 1 Corinthians 14—talking about tongues and prophecy in a purposeful fashion as to not create division over the matter, but unity. This one chapter in Scripture has historically divided the Church of Jesus Christ right down the middle. And yet, ironically, the entire reason the Apostle Paul wrote it was to address division and to heal it.

This is the third part to Eric’s series on Spiritual Gifts. This message begins a journey into the difficult terrain of tongues and prophecy and helps enunciate the place these “sounds” have in the tapestry of Heaven. Whereas many Bible-loving believers secretly wish they could just delete the passages on tongues and prophecy from the Text in order to ensure a healthier Church—the answer is not deletion, but proper understanding. After all, God’s ways are perfect! And we mustn’t shy away from trusting His grand Revelation.

This is the second installment in Eric Ludy’s five-part mini-series on Spiritual Gifts. In this particular message, he focuses on what exactly “spiritual gifts” are, where they come, and what the Bible declares their purpose to be. Most Christians today shy away from both this topic and the functional benefit supplied by these gifts of grace. Ironically, Paul encourages us to have the complete opposite perspective on this matter. He exhorts us to “earnestly desire” them.

This is the first part of a five-part sermon series on Spiritual Gifts. Unfortunately, this topic is barnacled with controversy and many Christians would prefer just to ignore it altogether. However, the Biblical function of the Body of Christ together as one unit is essential to it actually succeeding in its purpose. And for that to happen, this topic can’t be ignored. There is a beautiful corporate coordination and exercise of Spirit-endowed grace that God designed us to walk in as the Church of Jesus Christ. But, first, we need to remove the barnacles from this awkward topic and freshly look at the ingenious plan God has for His people.

This message is all about identity. In today’s world it’s all too easy to passively accept cultural or sinful labels for ourselves and find our identity in those specific propensities. But as Christians, our identity is not meant to be defined by our proclivity, but by our position…in Christ! The “proclivity movement” is creeping into the Body of Christ and many believers are confused about who they really are. But in such a time as this, the Church must return to the Truth as its King, Counselor, and Guide. And only then can it help steer this misguided culture back in the direction of true identity.