Category: Sermons

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

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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Sermon: The Many Factors in Man’s Salvation

This sermon is an overview of God’s great scheme of redemption.

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Sermon: The Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ

In 2 Corinthians 3, Paul uses the text of Exodus 34:29-35 to establish a contrast between the glory of the Old Covenant and the exceeding glory of the New Covenant. He concludes that the hope we enjoy is because of the glory of God shining in the face of Jesus Christ (4:6).

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Sermon: The Prayer Life of Jesus

Every aspect of Jesus’ character, life and habits are worth imitating. One aspect of His life we can learn from is His practice of praying to His heavenly Father. The lesson examines those habits, and makes proper applications.

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Sermon: Can you get away with it?

It is childish. Like a kid wondering if he will get caught with his hand in the cookie jar. But, many men are more concerned about getting caught than they are being truly righteous. The lesson concludes that with God, you can’t avoid the consquences of sin, death and judgment.

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Sermon: The High Cost of a Free Gift

The sermon describes a popular, present day view of Grace (sometimes referred to as the Hyper-Grace movement), showing its fallacies, and establishing what scripture teaches regarding man’s response to the gift of salvation.

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Sermon: The Human Heart

The heart, as the term is described in scripture, encompasses the intellect, emotions, conscience and will of man. As such, it must be kept pure. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”

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Sermon: The Resurrection Day

The sermon examines four things we can expect at the Day of Resurrection:

  • To hear Christ’s voice commanding death to give up its captives
  • The dead to be raised incorruptible
  • Individual judgment of our lives on this earth
  • It to happen in the twinkling of an eye

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Sermon: Punctuation

Punctuation marks such as the period, comma, exclamation point, question mark, quotation marks and the asterisk are used to illustrate Biblical precepts.

(Inspiration for the lesson taken from chart created by Ron Adams, which appeared in the December 2013 issue of For Your Consideration).

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Sermon: Paul’s Success in Thessalonica

Paul’s ministry in Thessalonica was a great success. As indicated in his writing in 1 Thessalonians 2, Paul attributed that success to diligent and gentle instruction from the word of God.

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Sermon: Admonitions to Young Preachers – 4

In this final of four lessons on the subject, the sermon discusses Paul’s admonition to Timothy to contend for the truth as a young preacher.

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Sermon: Neither Will I Be With You Anymore

Israel’s Defeat at Ai is examined (Joshua 7), with proper applications made for Christians. In order for us to have God “with us”, we must refrain from taking part in what is accursed by God. There is a clear admonition to faithfulness, and to refrain from worldliness.

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Sermon: Let Us…

Sermon by Jonathan Hinds

A survey of the book of Hebrews. Jonathan discusses the motivation, confidence, instruction and gratitude of the Christian, as revealed in the text.

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