Skip to content
Millington Baptist Church
Millington Baptist Church
  • C19 updates
      • Gathering Plan
        • Generic Indoor Service times 2021 169hd
      • COVID-19 Weekly Schedule
        • COVID-19 UPdates
      • MBC Unhindered
        • Unhindered 169hd
      • Give Help, Get Help
        • Give Get 169hd2
      • Pastor’s Table Blog
        • Holy Week Marble Church PowerPoint
  • about
      • Sermon Series
        • Hebrews sermon series 169hd
        • Up Next:
      • Times & Directions
        • Generic Indoor Service times 2021 169hd
      • About us
        • Expaning the Table 2018 web 169HD
      • Worship
        • Worship-arts-169HD-sm2
      • Staff & Leadership
        • Team Web Rotator
      • Baptism
        • Interested in Baptism 169HD
      • Membership
        • membership class w date 16.9HD Nov 4 2020
  • ministries
      • Kids
        • MBC KIDS Postcard 169HD
        • MBCKids 56rs 2018 16.9HD
        • Mommy and Me Music Class
        • SA ONLINE SHIPWRECKED 2021 169hd
        • Music Camp 2020 169hd STD hw
        • Trunk or Treat-2020-16-9HD
        • HIsKids 169hd
      • Teens
        • Rush logo 2018 169H-web
        • Project 56 graphic16-9HD
        • Wednesdays the Rush
        • blog menu
      • Adults
        • small groups 2018 HD16
        • womens Feature Image 2018 Web 16.9HD
        • Adult-Sunday-School 2018 169HD
        • Young Adult 2020 16.9HD generic no dates
        • senior-luncheon-Feb 21 16.9HD
        • Mens Breakfast feb 19 109 169HD
        • Yarn Crafters 2018 Master 16-9HD
      • Underground Sessions
        • US What about Race 169hd
      • Care
        • Care team 2015 169hd
      • Stephen Ministry
        • Stephen Ministry 2020 w class date 169HD
      • Missions
        • Senegal Missions rotator no dates 2018
        • WORLD partner highlight 2016 main
        • 1st Choice 169HD
        • NYCR Banner 16.9HD
        • market Street Mission 169HD
        • Feedng Hands
        • kingdom Cars
      • Little Footprints Learning Center
        • LFLC Postcard 2017 V2
  • media
      • Sunday Service Live Stream
        • Live Stream 169HD 2020 9am no time
      • Facebook Live
      • Sermon Archive
  • events
  • prayer
  • give
  • log in

Does all life have dignity and worth?

If you stopped to survey our society, you might be tempted to answer, “no.” To have dignity means you are worthy of honor; to have worth means you are valuable. And yet, so many people feel they don’t have either. 2020 was a year filled with much talk of death—as we enter 2021, we want to talk about life. The sanctity of human life means that all human life has dignity and worth—this means unborn children has worth, people with special needs have worth, people of all races have worth… and even when you are depressed and feel like you are worthless… you have worth… and dignity. As Russell Moore says so aptly, “Our pro-life witness ought to be seen in Sunday schools filled with children with fetal alcohol syndrome and autism and cerebral palsy and AIDS who are hugged and loved and received because we see in the Jesus and because we embrace a gospel that told us a long time ago that life is better than death.” 

Over the next four weeks we are going to talk about how all human life has… dignity and worth. All people are worthy of life and flourishing. How can we advocate for this? Join us to find out.

Resources:

Week 1 – Dignity and Mental Health

  • Suicide National lifeline 1-800-273-TALK
  • Book: Dr. Tim Clinton and Dr. Jared Pingleton, The Struggle is Real.  (Westbow Press, 2017)
  • Book and Audio Teaching: Martin Lloyd Jones, Spiritual Depression (Eerdmans, 1965)
  • Training: Certified Mental Health Coach training from the AACC (American Association for Christian Counselors). https://lightuniversity.com/mentalhealthcoach/

Week 2 – Dignity and Special Needs

  • Hubach, Stephanie. Same Lake, Different Boat: Coming Alongside Those Touched Disability (Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R Press, 2006).
  • Eldrige, Amy. The Heart of an Orphan.
  • Organizations:
    • Joni and Friends: https://www.joniandfriends.org/
    • Love Without Boundaries: lovewithoutboundaries.com

Schedule:

11/29 – Week 1 – KING OF HOPE: – BOB

How has this year devastated your hopes? This sermon should focus on the Promised King of the OT, predictions, types and shadows in all the OT Kings

Text ideas: OT Prophecies; Isa 9, Micah 5, other types and shadows, David, Solomon, etc. (other texts as needed)

 

12/6 – Week 2 – KING OF PEACE – DAVE

How has this year destroyed your peace? This sermon focuses on Jesus as a different kind of King, compared to King Herod, a ruthless, arrogant tyrant, Jesus came to bring peace through humility and sacrifice, ”God and sinners reconciled.” Text ideas: Matthew 2; Romans 5:1  (other texts as needed)

12/13 – Week 3 – KING OF JOY – DAVE

How has this year stolen your joy? This sermon focuses on the unshakeable source of joy as we rejoice in God our savior. Text ideas: Luke 1 – The Magnificat; Luke 2 – “Good tidings of great joy”   (other texts as needed)

 

12/20 – Week 4 – KING OF LOVE  – BOB

How has this year threatened our love for others? How is Jesus the answer as the one who loved his enemies and His kingdom shows a better way.

Text idea: John 3:16; Romans 5:8 (Other texts as needed)

 

12/23 – Christmas Eve Eve – The King is Here

This has been a very difficult year. How can the message of Christmas be exactly what we need in 2020?

How can the presence of our savior make a difference in our shattered lives?

12/24 – Christmas Eve – same as above

 

download
shutterstock_1700390182
shutterstock_1070832509
shutterstock_1303933624
Previous
Next

Resources Cont.:

Week 3 – Dignity and Race

  • Yancey, George. Beyond Racial Gridlock: Embracing Mutual Responsibility (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006).
  • Newbell, Trillia. United: Captured by God’s Vision for Diversity (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2014).
  • Tisby, Jemar. The Color of Compromise (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019).
  • Williams, Thaddeus. Confronting Injustice Without Compromising Truth (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2020).
  • Organizations:
    • The Center for Biblical Unity: centerforbiblicalunity.org
    • The John and Vera Mae Perkins Foundations: jvmpf.org
  • YouTube Video with Dr. Pat Sawyer— “What is Systemic Injustice?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8m9gTQkCjA
  • Movie: Just Mercy (Also book of same title by Bryan Stevenson)

Week 4 – Dignity for the Unborn

  • First Choice Women’s Resource Centers https://1stchoice.org/
  • Book – Life, Marriage and Religious Liberty Life, Marriage, and Religious Liberty: What Belongs to God, What Belongs to Caesar. by David S. Dockery  (Author), John Stonestreet (Author) Publisher: Fidelis Books (2019)
  • Film – Unplanned featuring the story of Abby Johnson
  • Articles:
    • “Why Abortion Makes Sense.” JUNE 1, 2016  |  JONATHAN LEEMAN • MATTHEW ARBO https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/why-abortion-makes-sense/
    • “Rebutting Objections to the Pro Life Position.” https://tabletalkmagazine.com/article/2019/08/rebutting-objections-to-the-pro-life-position/ 

Week 5 – Dignity and the End of Life

  • Beckwith, Francis J., and Geisler, Norman L. Matters of Life and Death.  Grand Rapids:  Baker Book House, 1991.
  • Frame, John M. Medical Ethics:  Principles, Persons, and Problems.  Phillipsburg NJ:  P & R Publishing, 1988.
  • Koop, C. Everett. The Right to Live, The Right to Die.  Wheaton:  Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1976.
  • Schaeffer, Francis A and Koop, C Everett. Whatever Happened to the Human Race?  Old Tappan NJ:  Fleming H Revell Company, 1979.
  • Tada, Joni Eareckson. The Life and Death Dilemma.  Grand Rapids:  Zondervan Publishing House, 1995.
  • Thielicke, Helmut. Living with Death (trans. by Geoffrey W Bromiley).  Grand Rapids:  William B Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1983.
  • Articles:
    • Butler, Kathryn. “4 Biblical Principals for End of Life Dilemmas.” https://erlc.com/resource-library/articles/4-biblical-principles-for-end-of-life-dilemmas/
    • Burke, Jessica. “We Need Our Elderly Neighbors.” https://erlc.com/resource-library/articles/we-need-our-elderly-neighbors/

Resources:

1.  Tim Keller’s, “Hidden Christmas”

2. Tim Keller – Message on Psalm 2 “Jesus our King”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjMGMUuNpZ4
We have a king 2. We hate the king 3. We need the king)

3. John Piper – “Coronavirus and Christ.” E BOOK https://document.desiringgod.org/coronavirus-and-christ-en.pdf?ts=1586278809

Schedule:

11/29 – Week 1 – KING OF HOPE: – BOB

12/6 – Week 2 – KING OF PEACE – DAVE

12/13 – Week 3 – KING OF JOY – DAVE

12/20 – Week 4 – KING OF LOVE  – BOB

12/23 – Christmas Eve Eve – The King is Here

12/24 – Christmas Eve – same as above

 

Previous Sermons

Loading...

Dignity and the End of Life – Pastor Bob Erbig – Dignity – 1-31-21

Watch
Listen
January 31, 2021
Pastor Bob Erbig continues our sermon series with his sermon entitled: Dignity and the End of Life.
Dignity, Archived Sermon Series, Bob Erbig

The Dignity of the Unborn – Pastor Dave Hentschel – Dignity – 1-24-21

Watch
Listen
January 24, 2021
Pastor Dave Hentschel will explore this topic in depth, referencing Scripture passages in Genesis 1:26-28 and Psalm 139.
Dignity, Archived Sermon Series, Dave Hentschel

Dignity and Race – Pastor Bob Erbig – Dignity – 1-17-21

Watch
Listen
January 17, 2021
Pastor Bob Erbig continues our sermon series, Dignity: They=Me, Examining the Worth of Every Human Life, with his sermon entitled: Dignity and Race, based on selected Scripture.
Dignity, Archived Sermon Series, Bob Erbig

Gratitude, Grief, and Glory – Pastor Bob Erbig – Dignity – 1-10-21

Watch
Listen
January 10, 2021
Pastor Bob Erbig, joined by his wife, Amanda, continues our sermon series, Dignity: They=Me, Examining the Worth of Every Human Life, with his sermon entitled: Dignity: Gratitude, Grief, and Glory,...
Dignity, Archived Sermon Series, Bob Erbig

Foundations of Dignity and Mental Health – Pastor Dave Hentschel – Dignity – 1-3-21

Watch
Listen
January 3, 2021
Pastor Dave Hentschel kicks off our new sermon series, Dignity: They=Me, Examining the Worth of Every Human Life, with his sermon entitled: Foundations of Dignity and Mental Health, based on...
Dignity, Archived Sermon Series, Dave Hentschel
1 2 Next »

Sermon on deck…

  • www.millingtonbaptist.org
  • mbc@millingtonbaptist.org
  • /millingtonchurch
  • /MBCNewJersey
  • www.millingtonbaptist.org
  • mbc@millingtonbaptist.org
  • facebook.com/millingtonchurch
  • twitter.com/MBCNewJersey
  • 520 King George Road | Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 | 908-647-0594
  • C19 updates
    • Gathering Plan
      • MBC Indoor Gathering Plan, 9am & 10:15am
      • Back
    • COVID-19 Weekly Schedule
      • Updates & Connection Opportunities during COVID-19
      • Back
    • MBC Unhindered
      • MBC Unhindered
      • Back
    • Give Help, Get Help
      • Give Help, Get Help
      • Back
    • Pastor’s Table Blog
      • Pastor’s Table Blog
      • Back
    • Back
  • about
    • Sermon Series
      • Back
    • Times & Directions
      • Back
    • About us
      • Back
    • Worship
      • Back
    • Staff & Leadership
      • Back
    • Baptism
      • Back
    • Membership
      • Back
    • Back
  • ministries
    • Kids
      • MBC Kids
      • the 56rs Pack
      • Mommy & Me Music Class
      • ONLINE Summer Adventure, July 12 – 16
      • Music Camp 2020, Aug 3-7
      • Trunk or Treat 2020, Recap
      • HisKids Music & Drama, December 7, 2pm & 4pm
      • Back
    • Teens
      • Teens
      • Project 56
      • The Break
      • Rush Blog
      • Back
    • Adults
      • Small Groups
      • Women
      • Adult Education
      • Young Adults
      • Senior Luncheon: February 21, 12pm
      • Men
      • Yarn Crafters
      • Back
    • Underground Sessions
      • Underground Sessions, Saturday, March 6, 6:30pm
      • Back
    • Care
      • Back
    • Stephen Ministry
      • Back
    • Missions
      • Senegal
      • World Partners
      • First Choice
      • The Relief Bus
      • Market Street
      • Feeding Hands
      • Kingdom Cars
      • Back
    • Little Footprints Learning Center
      • Back
    • Back
  • media
    • Sunday Service Live Stream
      • MBC Live
      • Back
    • Facebook Live
    • Sermon Archive
    • Back
  • events
  • prayer
  • give
  • log in