Category: Subject Index

Study Material Categorized by Subject

Podcast: Friendship with the World

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Podcast Number 49

To be a friend with the World is to become an enemy of God. Christians should submit in humble obedience to God, and resist the devil. Only in doing this can we overcome the siren call of worldliness.

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Sermon: Man’s Tendency to Fall

Bill Crews’ sermon documents the tendency of man to choose to sin. Using the history of the Jews, as well as New Testament and modern digressions and sin in the church, he points out the need to be on guard against apostasy.

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AOTS: Gossip

AOTS Number 19

Gossip is destructive. And it may include “true” things that should nevertheless not be repeated. It is a sin, condemned by God, and can harm the one who is spoken against, the one guilty of the sin, and even the one who hears it.

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Sermon: Unselfishness

Bill Crews’ sermon points out that though the word “unselfishness” is not used in most English versions of the Bible, the concepts of “unselfishness” and “selfishness” are certainly prevalent in scripture.

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Sermon: “Mistakes” in Stephen’s Sermon

Bill Crews’ sermon answers skeptics claims that Stephen, in his sermon in Acts 7, made some mistakes in relating Jewish history.

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AOTS: God Hates the Proud

AOTS Number 18

Proverbs 6 reveals among six other things, that God hates a proud look. There is nothing more foreign to the spirit of Christ than for one saved by the grace of God to be haughty.

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Sermon: Does The World See What It Should See?

Bill Crews’ lesson establishes the responsibility of Christians to be an influence for good in the midst of an ungodly world.

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AOTS: Be A Good Listener

AOTS Number 17

If you are a good listener, people will repay you with their friendship, admiration, appreciation, kindness, and from time to time wisdom.

 

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Sermon: Does God See What He Should See?

Bill Crews’ sermon asks the question, Does God see what He should see when he looks down upon his creation? (cf. Genesis 1:31). More to the point, does God see what He should see when he looks at me?

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AOTS: Desperate Times, Desperate Measures

AOTS Number 16

Some people will turn to God only when desperate, only when they are forced to by circumstance. To think that such an attitude will be acceptable to God is to be mistaken!

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Sermon: As the Heavens are Higher Than the Earth

Bill Crews’ sermon notes the passage from Isaiah 55:6-11, indicating that God’s wisdom and will are beyond man’s knowledge, outside of His revelation to us.

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Sermon: How Many Ministers Are There in the Lord’s Church?

Bill Crews examines the words in the New Testament which are translated as servant, or minister. The point is established that every Christian is a minister in the family of God.

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Sermon: God – A Presence Missing in Too Many Homes

In Bill Crews’ sermon, he points out that God is everywhere. But, in a sense, He is sadly missing in the homes of too many. Even missing in the homes of some Christians.

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Sermon: Man’s All

Bill Crews’ sermon, based on the text of Ecclesiastes 12:13, explains the duty of man to fear God and keep His commandments.

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Podcast: Divine Wisdom

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Podcast Number 48

The third chapter of James’ epistle defines divine wisdom, differentiating between it and human wisdom, and establishing the means of obtaining divine wisdom.

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