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Other pastors’ sermons feed my soul and ease my
preparation! I hope the sermons here will do the same for
you. Whether you use the outlines to preach or to fine-tune your
delivery, or find a thought that leads you into the development of
another sermon. I’ll be thrilled if your ministry becomes more
effective. As pastors and ministers, we’re all on the same team. Let’s
help each other out and when we get to Heaven, we can rejoice together
over the people who were saved as a result!
As much as I would like to take credit for the contents
of all these sermons I can't. I am simply the conduit through which
these some of these messages pass. I am profoundly indebted to the work,
study, and creativity of others. I am, through these messages fulfilling
the the admonition of Paul to Timothy "And the things that thou hast
heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men,
who shall be able to teach others" Please feel free to pass them
along to faithful men.
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This classic chapter contains one of
the most meaningful allegories in the Bible. It is another one of those
great "I am" passages recorded by John that points to the deity of
Jesus Christ. The foundational principles for living the Christian
life--abiding in Christ and bearing fruit--are recorded in this chapter.
We will see where we should draw our strength? Your motivation? Your
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Abiding in Christ
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With so much bad news,
can there really be any good news? Yes! The good news is that sin can be
dealt with. You don't have to be selfish. Guilt and anxiety
can be alleviated. There is meaning to life and hope of life after
death. The apostle Paul says in Romans 1:1 that the good news is the
gospel, which is the good news of God. That is what the book of
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Timothy was the apostle
Paul's son in the faith and a leader in the church at Ephesus. Paul
founded that church (Acts 19) but by the time he wrote his second epistle
to Timothy the church and its leaders were characterized by doctrinal
error and sinful behavior. Paul sent Timothy to Ephesus to rectify the
problems in that church.
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Seven Saying of Christ From the Cross |
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Romans 12
contains very practical instructions that the Lord can use in our lives as
we respond in obedience to them. They are listed one after another,
beginning in verse 9 and continuing through verse 21. There are more than
twenty separate exhortations in those verses. |
| Duties of Practical Christianity
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Elijah is a man
on a mission, declaring himself a servant of “the Lord, the God of
Israel,” when all around him are evidences of blatant Baal worship.
Without preparing his audience for the warning, he makes the ominous
pronouncement: “No rain—not even dew—for years, unless I say so.”
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When a person trusts in Christ in
faith, whether they realize it or not, they have been enrolled in the
“school of faith. And faith must grow. Consequently,
as Christians, we never know what may happen next because God, who works
all things together for good, uses our trials as tools to promote
spiritual growth and maturity.
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Faith in Adversity
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We go to church to worship God, and
that’s done by giving, not getting. We go to offer something to Him, not
to receive from Him. Granted, if we offer to Him the praise due His name,
we will receive at His hand. There is blessing in giving, for the Lord is
quoted as saying, “It is more
blessed to give than to receive” (Acts
20:35b). So, worship is giving to God, not getting.
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Exactly what does our
heavenly Father want to develop within us? What is that "image of His
Son"? I believe the simple answer is found in Christ's own words.
Listen as He declares His primary reason for coming "For even the Son of
man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life
a ransom for many." |
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Biblical joy, consists of the deep and abiding confidence
that all is well, regardless of circumstance and difficulty. It is very different from worldly happiness. Biblical joy
is always related to God and belongs only to those in Christ. It is the
permanent possession of every believer ; it is not a whimsical delight that
comes and goes as chance offers opportunity. |
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Joy and Godliness
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Some modern conceptions of God are not entirely wrong, just skewed;
others are as far from reality as one can travel. Once we assume that we can
construct an idea of God beginning with man, that is, “from the bottom up~’
anything is possible. We are capable of doing this even with our Bible in one
hand and a personal agenda in the other.
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When we
face death we are like a hen before a cobra, incapable of doing anything
at all in the presence of the very thing that seems to call for the most
drastic and decisive action.
"There is, in fact, nothing we can do, say what we will, dance how we
will, we will soon enough be a heap of ruined feathers and bones,
indistinguishable from the rest of the ruins that lie about. It will not
appear to matter in the slightest whether we met the enemy with
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What are you doing with your life all the gifts, talents, opportunities,
energy, relationships, and resources God gave you? Did you spend them on
yourself, or did you use them for the purposes God made you for?”
Preparing you for this question is the goal of these messages.
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Revelation is not the hiding,
this book is the revelation. And what does it reveal? What does it uncover?
It reveals instruction to the church about the need for holiness. It reveals the
amazing power and glorious overcoming strength of Christ and the Christian over
sin and Satan. It reveals the ultimate triumph of believers who are killed for
the cause of Christ. It reveals the glory of worship. It reveals the end of
human history. It reveals the final political set up of the world. It reveals
the triumph of God's saving purpose. It reveals the career of Antichrist and the
final battle of Armageddon and the alignment of the nations of the world. It
reveals the need to fight the forces of evil patiently. It reveals the glories
of Christ's Kingdom on Earth and in the new heaven and the new Earth. It reveals
the triumph ultimately of God's saving purposes, no matter what Satan endeavors
to do. It reveals the victory of Christ over all powers, human and demonic. It
reveals the final end of Satan and the final end of sin.
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Revelation - A Jet Tour
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In
Acts 15 the Jerusalem
council was held. The Jewish believers came to the conclusion that they
would accept Gentile believers as those who belong to Jesus Christ. But it
all began in
Acts 10. In Acts 10
we see principles that God uses when He deals with everyone in an
evangelistic situation. We will see how God prepares the receiver of the
gospel (Cornelius), and the messenger of the gospel (Peter). At the
perfect time, God brings the two together. These principles are important
for our own understanding of how God prepares His messengers (Christians)
to communicate the gospel to prepared receivers at a divinely prepared
moment.
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| Salvation Reaches Out (Acts 10)
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Seasonal Sermons
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