Year: 2020
Sermon: I Have Set the Lord Always Before Me
The Psalmist depended upon God as should we. However, sometimes we struggle in this matter. However, attention to nature, God’s word and prayer will help us to do the same.
Sermon: One Another
An examination of both the Lord’s words, and Paul’s writings, showing how Christians are to treat one another.
Sermon: Emulating Christ
As our example, Christ suffered for us, taught us how to deny Satan, forgave us and extended us merccy, showed compassion, and showed humility. He serves as a wonderful example for us.
Sermon: Church Exhortations
Speaker: Josh Cox
Josh turns to 1 Corinthians 3 to see what was lacking among the Corinthians and Paul’s response. He appeals Christians today to make appropriate applications.
Sermon: I Need Help!
All of us need help from God. Unfortunately, it is possible for their to be barriers that stand between us our such help from Him. Things like Pride, Uncertainty and a Lack of Faith.
Sermon: The Mystery Revealed
A discussion of Paul’s words taken from Ephesians 3.
Sermon: Living for Jesus
Speaker: Tommy Davis
Tommy discusses the text of Romans 12, emphasizing that as Christians we must lay aside any distractions, and have as our priority serving Christ first.
Sermon: Paul’s Sermon on Mar’s Hill
An exegetical lesson examination Paul’s description of the “Unknown God” given to the Athenians on Mars Hill in Acts 17.
Your Life is Hidden with Christ in God
“If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory” (Colossians 3:1-4).
Too many today seek the glory, but are not willing to make the commitment. Have you noticed how often in scripture the two are combined? Jesus and His apostles all emphasized the commitment of the Christian life. You have obeyed the gospel, you are now a Christian. Because of this relationship and the glory that it brings, Jesus requires you to live commensurately. “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God” (Luke 9:62).
As Paul rightly emphasizes, this commitment is a commitment of righteousness. In other words, you are a Christian, now stop sinning! He wrote in Romans 6:1-2, “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live in any longer in it?”
Anyone who continues a worldly lifestyle while claiming to be a faithful Christian, “is a liar, and the truth is not in him” (1 John 2:4). Startling to many, but true!
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Sermon: What Can the Righteous Do?
From Psalm 11 we see that the instinct to run and hide in the face of persecution and conflict is misguided. God is in control, and He protects those who are His. If we please Him, we can rejoice in our hope!
Sermon: The Aftermath of Hard Teaching
Sermon 16 in series.
In John 6:60-71, we are told that many who heard Jesus’ teaching, because it was “hard”, turned away and followed Him no more. From this we can learn to differentiate from true disciples, and those who are not.
The Patternists: Faithfulness and Industry
In his second letter to the Thessalonians, Paul gave thanks to God for them. They were “beloved by the Lord”, as He chose them “for salvation” (2:13). He called them by the “gospel” (cf. Romans 1:16), so that they might obtain “the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (2:14). In these words their standing as God’s children is well established.
Paul did not stop with commending them for their faith. He did not just give thanks for the standing they enjoyed. He in the remainder of this chapter and beginning of the next exhorted them to faithfulness and industry, working for the Lord. This is similar to what he wrote to the Ephesians in Ephesians 2:8-10, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
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Entrusted with the Gospel
The apostle Paul considered himself a steward. God had given him responsibilities as an apostle, and he took those responsibilities seriously. He wrote to the Thessalonians, “But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts” (1 Thessalonians 2:4). As he wrote on another occasion, “Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful” (1 Corinthians 4:1-2).
What is interesting about the Thessalonian text is how Paul defines faithful stewardship. “…even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts.” In the proclamation of truth it is important to please only one, God. That doesn’t mean that others will not be pleased, but that is not the mandate.
We need to understand this as well. When we preach God’s word, our intent must be to please Him. Whether or not men approve in the telling is not only not our concern, but not in any way within our control. Peter preached the gospel, leading to many conversions, (cf. Acts 2). Stephen preached the same gospel, leading to his own death (cf. Acts 7). Both pleased God in the telling. Jesus Himself had those who “heard Him gladly”, and those who put Him to death for what he had to say.
Do you want to be God’s faithful steward in the spread of the gospel? Then handle it in such a way as to please God, not men.
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Sermon: Job’s Worst Day
Five things we can learn from Job’s response after losing his possessions and family. He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21)
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Sermon: Eat My Flesh, Drink My Blood
Sermon 15 in series: John 6:52-59
Jesus ends His teaching at the synagogue in Capernaum by provoking the Jews with His insistence that unless they ate of His flesh, and drank of His blood, they had no life in them.
