Providence Reformed Church of Bakersfield

Tag: Rev Dr. Jerrard Heard

  • Replete Guilt and Resolved Grace, Part 3: Restoration Through Faithful Shepherding

    Rev. Jerrard Heard Micah 7:14-20 14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old. 15 As in the days when you came out of the land…

  • Replete Guilt and Resolved Grace, Part 2: Association by Common Hope

    Rev. Jerrard Heard Micah 7:8-13 8 Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me. 9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment…

  • Replete Guilt and Resolved Grace, Part I: Isolation and Personal Trust

    Rev. Jerrard Heard Micah 7:1-7 Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires. 2 The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among…

  • What Revelation Is About

    Rev. Dr. Jerrard Heard • Psalm 19:1-14 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. 2 Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. 3 There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. 4 Their voice goes out through all…

  • The Lord Rising in Song with Healing for His Servants

    Rev. Dr. Jerrard Heard • Psalm 18:1-50 1 I love you, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 3 I call upon the LORD, who is worthy…

  • How Always to Pray and Not Lose Heart

    Rev. Dr. Jerrard Heard • Psalm 17:1-15 Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit! 2 From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right! 3 You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have…

  • Commemorating the Kindness of God

    Ephesians 2:6-7 • Rev. Dr. Jerrard Heard • And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived…

  • His Promise and Offers His Grace

    I Kings 18:41-46 • Rev. Dr. Jerrard Heard • And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is a sound of the rushing of rain.” So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Mount Carmel. And he bowed himself down on the…

  • A Perfect Greeting for Coming Together at Christ’s Table

    Ephesians 1:1-2 • Rev. Dr. Jerrard Heard • Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 1:1-2

  • A Diagnostic God Conflict

    I Kings 17:1-16 • Rev. Dr. Jerrard Heard • Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” And the word of the LORD came to him: “Depart…