Sermons by Dr. Blair
The second in a series of three sermons given by Dr. Ralph Blair at the 2011 Preaching Festival held in Ocean Grove, N.J. Jesus said: How fortunate are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. A New Yorker cartoon depicts a sadsack newly arrived at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter is inspecting the computer…
The third in a series of three sermons given by Dr. Ralph Blair at the 2011 Preaching Festival held in Ocean Grove, N.J. Six years ago, we celebrated the 1604 launching of the King James Version of the Bible. After six years’ work on translation, the King James Bible was published. 2011 marks the 400th…
1910 ~ The Centennials ~ 2010 William Holman Hunt – Louis Klopsh – The Fundamentals – F. F. Bruce This is the opening talk by Dr. Ralph Blair given at the 20120Preaching Festival. The 201o weekend focused on a group of centennial, historical Christians whose journeys and testimonies are an encouragement and inspiration to all. Sermons from…
The first in a series of three sermons given by Dr. Ralph Blair at the 2010 Preaching Festival held in Ocean Grove, N.J. “Ye Olde Postmodernism” Prefixing “Postmodernism” with the quaintness of “Ye Olde” and its visions of English village shambles and whiffs of ale and Cheshire cheese, isn’t as anachronistic as “Ye Olde’s” pseudo…
The second in a series of three sermons given by Dr. Ralph Blair at the 2010 Preaching Festival held in Ocean Grove, N.J. “The Good News: It’s a Whole Lot More!” Luke gives us this report: “Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were approached by a slave girl who had…
The third in a series of three sermons given by Dr. Ralph Blair at the 2010 Preaching Festival held in Ocean Grove, N.J. “The Light of the World” In the biblical book of Revelation, at 3:14-22, we read Christ’s letter to the messenger of the congregation at Laodicea in Asia Minor. Here it is: …
A Sermon by Dr. Ralph Blair at City Church, New York on August 31, 2003 As you may know, the night before he died in the Iraqi desert, NBC correspondent David Bloom sent his wife an e-mail that was later read at his funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral here in the city. Here’s what he…
A Sermon by Dr. Ralph Blair at City Church, New York June 22, 2003 Unemployment here in the city is around 9%? That’s far worse than the national rate of 6.1%. But 6.1% is better than the national average over the last 25 years. So what do these figures mean? Well, it’s one thing to…
A Sermon by Dr. Ralph Blair at City Church, New York on June 22, 2003 An atheist’s advice? Here it is: Christians should be Christians. That was the advice of at least one atheist. Back in 1948, French Dominicans asked existentialist Albert Camus to talk on the topic: “What Do Unbelievers Expect of Christians?” His…
for The City Church, New York on March 9, 2003 As I mentioned, today is the birthday of Phoebe Palmer Knapp. It was 130 years ago, in the Knapp mansion on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, that she first played her new hymn tune for her friend, the blind poet, Fanny Crosby. “What does this tune…