Scripture: Romans 15:14–29 Key Takeaways: 1 Timothy 1:12–17 (CSB) + Ministry to the Church + Ministry to the Needy 1 Corinthians 16:1–2 (CSB) 2 Corinthians 8:9 (CSB) + Ministry to the Unreached + The Unreached will be reached Revelation 7:9–12 (CSB) + It will take missionaries with ambition who are willing to go 1 Thessalonians 2:19–20 (CSB) + It will take the preaching of the Word and the power of the Holy Spirit. + It will happen through Church Planting + It will happen through sacrificial Chr...
Sep 16, 2024•44 min
Scripture: Romans 15:8-13 Key Takeaways: + God is a Trustworthy God. 2 Corinthians 1:20 (CSB) Titus 1:2 (ESV) + God is a Merciful God. Isaiah 30:18 (NIV) + God is a Missionary God. Genesis 12:3 (ESV) Illus: ee-taow. Image of Missionary being carried. Psalm 67:4 (ESV) Matthew 24:14 (ESV) + God is a Hope-Giving God. 1 Thessalonians 1:3 (CSB) Titus 2:13 (ESV)...
Sep 08, 2024•37 min
Scripture: Romans 14:19 -15:1–7 Key Takeaways: + Every person has a God-given Conscience. Hebrews 10:22 (ESV) + Our conscience needs to be obeyed. + Christians disagree on matters of conscience. + Nobody has an inerrant conscience. + We must prioritize Christian Unity over our personal freedoms. + “When do you have the freedom to do something?” 1. Does this violate a biblical command or principle? 2. Is there a latent danger to me in doing this? 3. Am I fully persuaded this is OK for me to do? 4...
Sep 03, 2024•41 min
Scripture: Romans 14:13-23 Key Takeaways: + Not everything in the Christian Life is Black and White + The Temptation to make gray what is black and white 1 Corinthians 5:9-13 (ESV) Galatians 6:1 (ESV) + The Temptation to make black and white what is gray + Love Requires that we Limit our Freedom 1 Timothy 4:1-5 (ESV) + Experiencing the Holy Spirit is more critical than experiencing my freedom and more effective than increasing my restrictions. Colossians 2:20-23 (NLT) Galatians 5:16 (ESV)...
Aug 28, 2024•42 min
Scripture: Romans 14:10-12 Key Takeaways: “On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures;he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.” ― Nicene Creed, 325 AD John 5:22-24 (ESV) + Make sure you’re ready to stand before Jesus. Romans 10:9-13 (ESV) Isaiah 45:22–24 (NIV) + Make every effort to help people confidently stand before Jesus. Oh, my brothers and sist...
Aug 18, 2024•42 min
Scripture: Romans 14:1-9 Key Takeaways: + There are gray areas that each Christian must decide upon for themselves + A growing confidence in the gospel leads to a growing freedom in the gray spaces. Colossians 2:16–17 (NIV) + We are to give grace to one another in the gray spaces. + Whatever you do in the gray space, do it all for the glory of God. 1 Corinthians 10:31 (NIV)...
Aug 11, 2024•38 min
Scripture: Romans 13:11-14 Key Takeaways: + Wake Up 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 (ESV) + Get Dressed...
Aug 04, 2024•30 min
Scripture: Romans 13:8-10 Key Takeaways: + Love is our greatest and ongoing debt + Love is the measure of our maturity John 13:34–35 (ESV) Maturity is not marked by how much of the bible you know, your church attendance, your impeccable morality, your spiritual experiences, your giftedness, even your service, or commitment to God. All those things are good, but they are nothing without love. 1 Corinthians 13:1–3 (ESV) 1 Thessalonians 3:11–13 (ESV) “The rule of love is that one should wish his fr...
Jul 29, 2024•41 min
Scripture: Romans 13:1-7 Key Takeaways: + Christians inhabit 2 kingdoms Ephesians 1:19-23 Colossians 1:13-14 Daniel 2:19-21 Jeremiah 27:4-6 Daniel 4:31-32 John 19:11 Revelation 1:5 Revelation 11:15 + All human government is ordained by God and Christians are to submit to it. To resist the government is to resist God. To submit to the government is a way to live free of fear. Governing authority is for the good of an ordered and just society. + Christians should never violate their conscience thr...
Jul 22, 2024•37 min
Scripture: Romans 12:14-21 Key Takeaways: + Bless Matthew 5:10-12 + Live in Harmony Harmony Requires Humility Pride is the Enemy of Harmony + Do Not Do Evil Romans 6:17-18 Romans 3:10-12 + Our vengeance is evil + Only God’s wrath can offer full vengeance + Vengeance is not for us, but for the glory of God...
Jul 14, 2024•38 min
Scripture: Romans 12:9-13 Key Takeaways: “Beloved Brethren, we are philosophers not in word but in deeds; we exhibit our wisdom not by our dress, but by truth; we know virtues by their practice rather than through boasting of them; we do not speak great things, but we live them.” Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, 256. + Genuine Love Genuine Discerning Affectionate Psalm 16:2-3 (ESV) Honoring + Zealous Service + Patient Joy + Generous Hospitality...
Jul 08, 2024•40 min
Scripture: Romans 12:3-8 Key Takeaways: New Identity New Assignment 1 Corinthians 12:4-7 (ESV) 1 Corinthians 12:11 (ESV) New Power Ephesians 3:7-8 (ESV) Ephesians 2:19-22 (ESV)...
Jun 30, 2024•39 min
Scripture: Romans 12:2 Key Takeaways: Resist the Formation of the World Galatians 1:3-5 (ESV) Romans 8:5-8 (ESV) “We can present our bodies to the Lord as genuinely holy and acceptable sacrifices only if we “do not conform to this world” but “are transformed by the renewing of the mind. - Douglas Moo Renew your Mind by the Gospel Titus 3:5-7 (ESV) “MY DEAR WORMWOOD, I note with grave displeasure that your patient has become a Christian. Do not indulge the hope that you will escape the usual pena...
Jun 23, 2024•42 min
Scripture: Romans 12:1 Key Takeaways: “The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can’t both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn’t fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction.” - C.S. Lewis Romans 12:1 ( NIV) Romans 1:24-25 (ESV) Romans 12:1 (NIV) Offer Your Body to God 1 Peter 2:5 (ESV) Philippians 4:18 (ESV) Display the Worth & Beauty of ...
Jun 17, 2024•41 min
This sermon explores Romans 11:25-32, emphasizing that theology should lead us to doxology (praise) and devotion (godliness). It underscores the wonder and worth of God, the wisdom and ways of God, and the wealth and works of God, acknowledging that while God can be truly known, He cannot be fully comprehended. Scripture: Romans 11:25-32 Key Takeaways: “ As I often tell my students, theology is for doxology and devotion — that is, the praise of God and the practice of godliness...Theology is at ...
Jun 11, 2024•39 min
Scripture: Romans 11:25-32 Key Takeaways: God has a heart for the Jewish people and so should we. Salvation is of God so be humble. 1 Corinthians 1:28–31 God lets us fall into and feel our sin so we might marvel at His mercy....
Jun 02, 2024•39 min
Scripture: Romans 11:11-24 Key Takeaways: Main Idea: "God has always wanted a people to reveal his glory to and display his glory through. Three Parts of God's Plan Genesis 12:2–3 Ephesians 3:6 Ephesians 3:9 “The restoration of Israel is an easier process than the call of the gentiles” - John Stott Two Ways to Respond Romans 10:3-4 One Hope for us All Isaiah 49:6 Revelation 7:9 “One cannot help but wonder what the remarkable result would be if this mass of lay people could be spiritually release...
May 28, 2024•40 min
Scripture: Romans 10:13-11:11 Key Takeaways: Even when it looks like unbelief is winning the day, God is at work saving a people for himself . 1 Peter 3:18 “At the turn of the 20th century, Africa was home to less than 10 million Christians, fewer than any other region except Oceania. By 2000, the Christian population in Africa had exploded to more than 383 million. In 2020, more Christians lived in Africa than any other region of the world. By 2050, with a Christian population of more than 1.28...
May 19, 2024•31 min
Scripture: Romans 10:5–17 Key Takeaways: A Person is saved solely by faith in the crucified and risen Lord Jesus, apart from works. Apart from personal, conscious, saving faith in Jesus people will experience eternal judgment. Romans 2:5 Ezekiel 18:23 Ezekiel 33:11 John 3:16–17 Universalism Mark 9:42–48 Matthew 25:46 Revelation 20:14–15 “Hell is a dreadful reality. To speak of it lightly proves we do not grasp its horror. I know of no one who has overstated the terrors of hell. We can scarcely s...
May 13, 2024•43 min
Scripture: Romans 9:30-10:4 Key Takeaways: God did not promise salvation to every ethnic Israelite, but only to those he sovereignly chose to be recipients of his saving love ( Romans 9:6-29 ). Israel did not respond to Jesus in faith ( Romans 9:30-10:21 ). John 5:39-40 John 6:35-45 Because the Gospel is so shocking, many people are offended by it and stumble over it. Philippians 3:4-9 Because the Gospel is so shocking, it takes a work of God to believe it. 2 Corinthians 4:4-6 To make intercessi...
May 05, 2024•40 min
Scripture: Romans 9:14–29 Key Takeaways: Exodus 4:21 Exodus 7:3–4 Exodus 7:13 God’s ultimate aim in all that he does is the manifestation of and magnification of his glory. Romans 11:33–36 Romans 16:27 Philippians 4:20 1 Timothy 1:17 Isaiah 42:8 In Election, God Displays his perfections in the manifestation of his Mercy (9:15). Exodus 33:18–19 “The stunning thing for Paul is not that God rejected Ishmael and Esau but that he chose Isaac and Jacob, for they did not deserve to be included in his m...
Apr 29, 2024•53 min
Scripture: Romans 9:1-16 Key Takeaways: 1. God did not promise salvation to every ethnic Israelite, but only to those he chose to be recipients of his saving love ( Romans 9:6-29 ). 2. Generally speaking, Israel did not respond to Jesus in faith ( Romans 9:30-10:21 ). 3. God faithfulness to Israel is seen in that there is a believing remnant ( Romans 11:1-10 ). 4. God’s faithfulness to his promise to Israel will one day be seen in greater measure when God saves Israel in great numbers ( Romans 1...
Apr 21, 2024•42 min
Scripture: Romans 9:1-13 Key Takeaways: Romans 9:6 Romans 3:20-25 Romans 5:1-5 Romans 8:1 Romans 8:28-39 Does Israel’s spiritual condition mean that God doesn’t keep his promises or that God can’t accomplish his purposes? Romans 11:33-36 Not every physical descendent of Israel truly belongs to Israel. Romans 11:1...
Apr 14, 2024•45 min
Scripture: Luke 6:46-49 Key Takeaways: Matthew 28:18-19 Ephesians 1:20-23 “Our commitment to Jesus can stand on no other foundation than a recognition that he is the one who knows the truth about our lives and our universe…Could we seriously imagine that Jesus could be Lord if he were not smart? If he were divine, would he be dumb? Or uninformed? Once you stop to think about it, how could he be what we take him to be in all other respects and not be the best-informed and most intelligent person ...
Apr 08, 2024•37 min
Scripture: Luke 24:1-12 Key Takeaways: 1 Corinthians 15:3–9 1 Corinthians 15:14 1 Corinthians 15:30–3 2 Jesus did rise from the dead and Christianity is true, and you must honestly face it. OR Jesus did not rise from the dead and Christianity is false, and you can completely forget it. Jesus did not die. ( “Swoon Theory”) The disciples were deceived. The disciples were deceivers. You won’t find Jesus among the dead. You won’t find life away from Jesus . 1 Corinthians 15:32...
Apr 02, 2024•32 min
Scripture: Isaiah 55:19 Key Takeaways: The greatest things we need are found in a relationship with God. “What causes us to be fickle is the realization that our present pleasures are false, while failing to realize that absent pleasures are also vain.” Blaise Pascal. The Greatest things we need are completely free. John 6:35 John 7:37–39 Anything that would lead you away from God, or rise above him, is an enemy to your joy. “...in the past couple of years, I have noticed a happiness pattern tha...
Mar 25, 2024•39 min
Scripture: Genesis 3:1-15 Key Takeaways: James 1:13–15 Hide from God Jonah 1:3–5 Psalm 139:7–12 Cover Up Make Excuses and Shift Blame Genesis 3:21 Luke 19:10 Face Ourselves Face God Luke 15:20 Receive Grace Come, ye sinners, poor and needy, Weak and wounded, sick and sore Jesus ready stands to save you, Full of pity, love and pow'r. I will arise and go to Jesus, He will embrace me in His arms In the arms of my dear Savior, Oh, there are ten thousand charms. – Joseph Hart (1759)....
Mar 18, 2024•34 min
Scripture: Romans 8:31-39 Key Takeaways: God is for us and is greater than anyone or anything against us. Romans 8:1 2 Kings 6:15–17 God will give us every small thing we need, because he has already given us the Greatest thing we need “Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; —but the Father, for love!’ Octavius Winslow Romans 8:32 God will always accept us in Jesus no matter what accusations are brought against us. Isaiah 61:10 Revelati...
Mar 10, 2024•42 min
Scripture: Romans 8:28-30 Key Takeaways: The bad things will all be turned to good. Romans 8:18 John 11:33-35 John 11:38-39 The good things can never be taken away from you. John 6:44 Jeremiah 32:38-41 Ephesians 1:4-6 “What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it—the fact that he knows me.. I know him because he first knew me, and continues to know me. This is momentous knowledge. There is unspeakable comfort—th...
Mar 03, 2024•39 min
Scripture: John 16:20-28 Key Takeaways: Prayer is a Privilege secured for us by Jesus. Hebrews 10:19–22 “God is radically committed to my life of prayer. He shed the blood of His Son so that I might be cleansed and rendered fit to stand before Him in love. He also permitted the brutal rending of His Son so that I might now have a way to enter into the Holy Place through the torn flesh of Jesus. ‘Draw near,’ he says… How can I not feel the infinite sincerity of these invitations, especially when ...
Feb 25, 2024•39 min
