Category: Sermons

Sermons Preached at West Side. Outlines, PPT Presentations and Audio files

Sermon: Selling Our Birthright

Like Esau, who despised his birthright for a morsel of food, Christians can sell or despise their inheritance by choosing the world and its pleasures for eternity.

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Sermon: The Transformed Life

This sermon is an explanation of the Transformed Life alluded to by the apostle Paul in Romans 12:1-2.

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Sermon: Why Did God Create the World?

The lesson shows how God chose to create the universe, and place man, a free moral agent, in it as its crown. Men chose to disobey, but God sent His son to redeem mankind.

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Sermon: What Repentance is Not

The sermon uses the novel approach of identifying some untrue but common views about repentance to show what it isn’t, thereby clarifying what it actually is.

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Sermon: Hannah’s Prayer

Using the first chapter of 1 Samuel, which records the prayer of Hannah, we learn the importance of fervency and persistency in prayer, that prayer must be in faith, and that God answers our prayers.

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Sermon: Noah

The sermon contrasts what the Bible teaches about Noah and the worldwide flood, and what the newly released movie purports him to be. Also discussed is the Christian’s proper response to the movie.

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Sermon: Blessings from God

Josh Cox uses Phillipians 4:4-6 to talk about the blessings we have from God, and the comfort and hope they supply.

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Sermon: The Dangers of the Comfortable Life

Our lives are comfortable, and in such comfort there is the danger of forgetting God, of trusting in ourselves and what we own, and in indulging ourselves in excess and sin.

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Sermon: Christ Our Sacrifice

The significance of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, and what it accomplished for men.

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Sermon: Keeping in the Love of God

Brantley Gallman uses the text of Jude to describe what is necessary to keep ourselves in the Love of God.

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Sermon: Jesus’ Walk on the Water

The sermon discusses the text of Matthew 14:22-33, and lessons learned (such as the power of faith, and the worthiness of Jesus as Lord and object of our worship).

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Sermon: God Said It!

If God said it, that settles it, and we had better believe it. God is sovereign, and His will must be obeyed. Psalm 119:89 says, “Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven.”

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Sermon: The Body of Christ

One of the many metaphors that the Holy Spirit uses to describe the relationship between Jesus Christ and the saved is that of a body. The phrase, “the body of Christ” indicates Jesus’ dominion, and the harmony that should exist when each member of “the body” pulls together in service to the Head.

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Sermon: Miscellaneous Admonitions

In Romans 15:1-13, the apostle delivered a number of concise admonitions to the Roman Christians, including the call to receive each other, be gentle and charitable, edify one another, glorify God, rejoice, Praise the Lord, etc. These admonitions are discussed in the lesson.

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Sermon: Young People

In 1 Timothy 4:12, Paul exhorted Timothy (as a young man), to be an example to believers. This sermon examines what Paul expected of his son in the faith.

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